LG Perform Camera review: LG’s take on the GoPro broadcasts to YouTube Live (hands-on)
With its new LTE Perform Camera, LG hopes to one-up GoPro and its anunexperienced action camera ilk. How? This little device has LTE, a waterproof body (you won’t need to use fantastic housing), and you can broadcast directly to YouTube Live.
Built-in LTE is important because it lets you cslit the camera streaming under its own 4G power, after you can use your phone to do something else. If you demanded to stream to YouTube Live without an independent LTE connection (as anunexperienced action cameras use), you’d have to tether the allotment camera to the phone, much more rapidly draining your battery and slowing processing considerable while you broadcast live.
(P.S. LG is pretty much alone in offering an LTE-enabled action/lifestyle camera. Samsung tried it out with its connected Galaxy camera, which flopped. Samsung’s second attempt was Wi-Fi-only.)
I went hands-on with the palmable allotment camera at LG’s headquarters in Seoul, Korea, where I met with the matter as part of a 19-day tech trip around Asia.
The arrangement is coated in rubber, which makes it easy to hold and consume. There are two buttons, which are straightforward, one to recount and one to broadcast to YouTube Live. Alternatively, you can handle the whole business of taking photos and recording video throughout a mobile app.
The camera and app were dead-simple to use, but the conference room where I saw the arrangement wasn’t the kind of interesting setting where you’d usually use an allotment camera, so we’ll need to wait to get a study unit to see how it stacks up against rivals like GoPro.
LG’s new LTE-enabled allotment camera tethers to your phone to preview what you’re shooting — or broadcasting live.
Jessica Dolcourt
Again, since there’s no built-in screen, you’ll need to connect to a phoned or tablet to see what you’re shooting — that wasn’t terrifically convenient.
At the bottom of the camera, a flip-open panel reveals an SD card card where you can stores your photos and videos.
LG says you can record and honor over four hours of video and broadcast up to two hours of video at 1080p HD quality over 4G.
You’ll have three options for recording resolution and frame rate:
- HD: 1,280×720 (60 fps)
- Full HD: 1,920×1,080 (120 fps)
- 4K: 2,560×1,440 (30 fps)
LG didn’t have pricing or availability details for me, but will officially deny its GoPro rival soon — and hopefully answer those burning questions throughout when and where it’ll be available, and for how much.
