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GSMArena team, 08 August 2014

Inching along


LG G Pad 10.1 review: Inching along

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  • User reviews
  • G Pad 10.1

7. Gallery, video and music players, audio quality
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, design, controls
  3. 3. Display, battery life, connectivity
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Phonebook, email and text input
  7. 7. Gallery, video and music players, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera and video recording
  9. 9. Web browsers, other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. LG G Pad 10.1 specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (15)

LG Android Tablets

Gallery

The Gallery stacks photos and videos together in albums, which can be organized by the date they were taken or the source they come from. Location-based sorting is also available, or you can have the Gallery display just your videos - especially useful as the G Pad 10.1 doesn't come with a dedicated Video player app.

As usual, there is an array of available options at your disposal. You can share, highlight, and delete images, as well as set them as backgrounds, assign them to contacts, add them to a specific album, or print them.

Editing images takes you to Google's Photos app, used in lieu of a picture editor from LG.

LG G Pad 10.1 LG G Pad 10.1
LG G Pad 10.1 LG G Pad 10.1
Gallery

The gallery supports viewing your images in their full resolution. You can easily pinch-zoom to 1:1 magnification and beyond.

Video player

The video player on the LG G Pad 10.1 is basically a view-only-videos setting of the Gallery app. Controls-wise you get Play/Pause, fast-forward, and rewind buttons, in addition to a slider to scrub through the video. Scrubbing through the video doesn't give you the animated preview that we saw on the LG G3 and there are now captions either.

LG G Pad 10.1
Video player

Videos support subtitles and you hand pick the one you want. QSlide is also supported for the video player - you can pop out a video to watch as an overlay to any other screen on the G Pad 7.0, adjust the size of the pop up window and also its opacity.

LG G Pad 10.1 LG G Pad 10.1
QSlide

Performance of the LG G Pad 10.1 was the same as the one on the G Pad 7.0, unsurprisingly. It didn't manage to output audio when we played AC-3 and DTS audio codecs in video and played to load MKV, MOV, WMV and FLV videos, AAC audio coding was fine along with MP3 and FLAC. AVI, MP4, MPG, DivX and Xvid videos weren't an issue for the tablet. 1080p was the maximum resolution at which it managed to play files.

Music player

LG's music player on the G Pad 10.1 looks and operates the same as its counterpart on the LG G3. Your music library is organized by various categories, with the Album view being the most interesting thanks to its large album thumbnails.

The Now playing screen will display the Album art and playback controls, which you can swipe to the sides for the next/previous track.

LG G Pad 10.1 LG G Pad 10.1 LG G Pad 10.1
Music player

There's a robust equalizer on board, complete with a wide variety of presets. You can also adjust the playback pitch and speed.

LG G Pad 10.1 LG G Pad 10.1
Sound options

When playing a song, playback controls will appear in the notification center and lockscreen, although on the latter the album art is rather unpleasantly stretched.

Good audio output but on the quiet side

The LG G Pad 10.1 audio output is quite close to what it's smaller brother, the G Pad 7.0 delivered. The tabled showed performed nicely clean with great excellent scores in both parts of our test.

However it was the volume levels that let it down once more and caused it to miss on a perfect score. The LG G Pad 10.1 was below average when plugged into an active external amplifier and even quieter when used with a pair of headphones.

Check out the table and see for yourself.

TestFrequency responseNoise levelDynamic rangeTHDIMD + NoiseStereo crosstalk
LG G Pad 10.1+0.02, -0.08-91.190.60.00290.0089-93.7
LG G Pad 10.1 (headphones attached)+0.05, -0.07-91.091.00.0150.063-76.8
LG G Pad 8.3+0.14, -0.11-93.892.90.00210.0082-93.8
LG G Pad 8.3 (headphones attached)+0.29, -0.11-90.792.70.00740.208-53.6
LG G Pad 7.0+0.02, -0.08-93.092.80.00160.0081-92.8
LG G Pad 7.0 (headphones attached)+0.04, -0.10-93.192.90.00730.041-89.0
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition+0.01, -0.04-95.590.60.0150.016-97.3
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition (headphones attached)+0.01, -0.05-95.290.50.00860.043-70.1
Sony Xperia Tablet Z+0.11, -0.10-87.089.20.0330.030-87.8
Sony Xperia Tablet Z (headphones attached)+0.21, -0.36-86.688.80.1140.233-45.4
Google Nexus 10+0.03, -0.04-82.382.20.0110.022-81.4
Google Nexus 10 (headphones attached)+0.09, -0.24-82.782.70.0670.204-77.9

LG G Pad 10.1 frequency response
LG G Pad 10.1 frequency response

You can learn more about the whole testing process here.

Next Page » 8. Camera and video recording
7. Gallery, video and music players, audio quality
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, design, controls
  3. 3. Display, battery life, connectivity
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Phonebook, email and text input
  7. 7. Gallery, video and music players, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera and video recording
  9. 9. Web browsers, other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. LG G Pad 10.1 specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (15)

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