LG Optimus F3

  • Released 2013, June
    113.4g, 10.1mm thickness
    Android 4.1.2
    4GB 1GB RAM storage, microSD slot
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  • 4.0"
    480x800 pixels
  • 5MP
    1080p
  • 1GB RAM
    Snapdragon 400
  • 2460mAh
    Li-Ion

LG Optimus F3 - Specs

Network Technology GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE
2G bands CDMA 800 / 1900 - LS720
  GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - for T-Mobile
3G bands CDMA2000 1xEV-DO - LS720
  HSDPA 850 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 - for T-Mobile
4G bands LTE band 25(1900) - LS720
  LTE band 4(1700/2100), 17(700) - T-Mobile, MetroPCS
Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat3 100/50 Mbps, EV-DO Rev.A 3.1 Mbps
Launch Announced 2013, June. Released 2013, June
Status Discontinued
Body Dimensions 116.1 x 62 x 10.1 mm (4.57 x 2.44 x 0.40 in)
Weight 113.4 g (3.99 oz)
SIM Micro-SIM
Display Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 4.0 inches, 45.5 cm2 (~63.3% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 480 x 800 pixels, 5:3 ratio (~233 ppi density)
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 2
Platform OS Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8930 Snapdragon 400 (28 nm)
CPU Dual-core 1.2 GHz Krait
GPU Adreno 305
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB (dedicated slot)
Internal 4GB 1GB RAM
Main Camera Single 5 MP, AF
Features LED flash, HDR, panorama
Video 1080p@30fps
Selfie camera Single VGA
Video
Sound Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Comms WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot
Bluetooth 4.0, A2DP
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
NFC Yes
Radio No
USB microUSB 2.0
Features Sensors Accelerometer, proximity
Battery   Removable Li-Ion 2460 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 456 h
Talk time Up to 16 h
Misc Colors Purple, Titanium, Black (T-Mobile)
Price About 100 EUR

LG Optimus F3 - User Reviews

  • It's pretty good, i have had it for six months now and my only issue is the memory space. The 1.3GB that is available is trully disturbing and i had to keep deleting thins, but i bought a 32GB microSD card and it helped, but the sortage of memory is a huge problem on this phone. Except that i'm totally satisfeid by this phone, the camera is fine and it's kind of fast. I totally recommend it for people who want a phone for casual use and use simple apps like messenger, instagram and snapchat, and in that case a memory card of 2GB at least should be extremely helpful for the storage problem... `

  • A Derbs-- more like "A Derp". Don't blame the device for your inability to operate it. Learn how to use it before you complain about easily solved issues.

  • You would need to find a carrier that uses GSM as their standard. Then you would have to have your device unlocked, if it isn't already. Then their SIM card should work.

  • This phone is a piece of crap! Don't get it! It has hardly any memory, I kept having to delete things on it because it kept telling me the storage space was full. And then it wants me to update multiple times a day, which is really annoying to have pop up on your screen, but with no memory, you don't have enough for the update. Absolutely NOT worth the money or the aggravation. Save your self!

  • Good phone, used for several years. Only drawback is relatively small in-built storage. But with a generous microSD card, it's no problem. Now it can be had for very little 2nd hand. Good if you are budget conscious but still want a good Android smartphone.

  • How can I use this product in Nigeria using another network ?

  • Good tip

  • Hi i'm from Colombia, got this ph from mercadolibre unlocked and currently using it with Tigo carriers. I've been more than 2 years with ph and is such a pretty ph for his low price. I wish to had more memory to install biggest games like the Asphalt 8 one but i can't even download it. If some one knows how to use some of the SD memory for apps and how to upgrade it KK version i will be happy

  • For short of internal storage issue, you may try this:

  • if you go to your system settings then go to apps, you can clear the caches! that will fix the storage problems with this phone. I do this about everyday now and ive save a little over half the space now! And i don't have to uninstall any apps!!

  • nice phone i like it

  • Not a fan of this phone - It's crippled by its lack of internal storage. Within a month I had warnings about full storage, and they haven't stopped since. Tried deleting as much as possible, used link2SD etc but impossible to fix this issue. If they'd only provided a few more gigs of internal storage it would be fine.

  • i have been used it over a 1 year .but i haven't find any issuie yet.it has a good hd quality cam and good speed

  • I've got this phone but i've 2 issues with it. 1 I have not been able to upgrade to kikat version 2 The internal capacity of memory does not allow me some game a want to play on it such as Asphalt 8 since i cannot switch the apps to Micro Sd Card If some one could help me with those issues i'll be glad It is a Good phones after all

  • I bought the ph and is activated with Tigo in Colombia and there is not problems with the network connections

  • I snagged this phone off a family member for $40. The first thing i did was root it. Prior to the root it was very very slow. A quick root access grant to Clean Master, and I was able to get rid of bloatware and stop auto starting apps. I'm much more satisfied after the root. Only took 30 mins and that included the acrivation call to MetroPCS. Cheers

  • Lots of F3 I saw or almost all are T Mobile - Virgin Moblie - Boost Mobile, It is possible buy a TOTALLY free one ? I mean buy the sim from whatever country and use it

  • Most updates are dependant on the carrier ie. tmobile,att ect...

  • Iv had tjis phone since may 2014 for the first few months it ran really good but then started slowing down significantly. I would only recommend this phone as a temporary fix until you can get a better more reliable phone.

  • Hi guys This is a great phone if you are looking for a budget smartphone, this is what you need. It runs smoothly and has a ok camera for the price. Bad thing is it hasn't have KitKat

  • Why no update to kitkat? Lg has older hardware that has gotten kk, the f3 is capable hardware wise.pls lg and virgin, give this little beast a kk update. Thx

  • What a great little phone for only 40 bucks at best buy. Great signal, fast, LTE, dual krait cores. For the price this phone is a hard act to follow

  • Bought unlock code from ebay and now can work on any network. Smooth, light to carry and lots of battery. Responsive. Who needs iphone?

  • Dude, I'm from Colombia, is that if i import from USA Virgin Mobile be locked by making it easy unlocked in colombia? and you did it unlocked in you country?? .. thanks for your help

  • Hi.I have just bought this phone and I can't goes any signal in my country is not t-mobile and if I unlock this phone will it work on usual GSM?

  • This is my first smartphone. It's nice to be able to look up something on web & does all basic stuff but not to same degree of other smartphones friends have. I have 1 game & 2 apps, memory is now all used up. Great battery life. If you want to have several apps,forget about this phone.

  • Hi, i brought LG optimus f3.while i have purchasing i am very happy but this phone having so many problem like we couldnt install two are more apps,heat problem.So i am not happy about this lG optimus f3

  • why is that i wake up in the morning and my phone does not have network?I tried the EMEI(*#06#)ON THE PHONE AND IT SAID ''NUL''.WATH can be the problem?note that my sim card is working good in others phone. Thanks

  • I also got my Virgin Mobil F3 working with saferoot. I had to leave the default install location remain internal otherwise I got errors. But after that installing/auto linking worked like a charm. Made a 1.90G ext4 partition on my SD card.

  • If you have LG vm720 only way I got it rooted was SAFEROOT. MOTOCHOPPER couldn't get er done! Running 33 apps and still have 600 mb to spare. SAFEROOT ON Virgin mobile Optimus f3 works!!!!

  • In case anyone is curious, the SAR rating for this phone, as listed in the manual for the T-Mobile US P659 version (GSM) is 1.16W/kg at the ear, 1.29W/kg on the body. Rather high given that the maximum allowable is by the FCC is 1.6W/kg.

  • Def a pain rooting this, tried various (Kingo, motochopper, etc) on XDA, haven't found anything yet that works for me, yet others have managed. VM provider if that matters. Regarding the phone itself it's nice and I like it, but the sd0 crap is a HUGE liability

  • I know right??

  • You can use Kingo Android Root as well.

  • thank u so much!

  • BTW: It's "saferoot" not "easyroot" that's a whole other app. saferoot is what works.

  • First thing to do is root the phone. Search for easyroot from XDA. Turn on USB debugging, connect to your computer and run easyroot as admin. In about 2 minutes you will have a rooted F3 without having to flash a custom rom or anything risky. Second thing todo is open the play store and download 2 apps, "Link2sd" by Bulent Akpinar and "Folder Mount" by madmack. Then go buy a 64gig microSD HDXC and follow the guide on the link2sd website. You have to create 2 primary partitions. One for normal storage in fat32 and to other for apps, I found ext4 to work well. YMMV Don't mess with any other app2sd stuff on the play store. Link2SD can move anything. You start with about 800mb of internal free. I installed over 60 apps and had 900mb free. Installed three Ivona voices. Only thing to watch out for is app cache size. Luckily link2sd can be set to clear the cache after it reaches a set size. Folder Mount creates sys-links to folders on the SD card. Something you can't do without on this phone because of the stupid choice to mark the internal storage as sdcard0. This breaks apps that don't let you set a folder manually. So EVERYTHING goes to the internal storage with is only 1.2gig to start with and only 800 of that is free. Folder mount lets you move things to the real sd card. This also means the link2sd is the only app2sd app that works properly. I paid for folder mount and I donated to link2sd. They are both wonderful apps and well worth it. Now my F3 is a 64gig model. I know it says it only goes to 32gig SD cards but read people claiming it would take 64 and it does. I'm on android 4.1.2 if that makes any difference.

  • hello guys. anyone can help me on how to use the memory card as the primary storage? mine cant download many applications, it will always says tbat the phone memory is full evwnthough i have a mem card inserted? its quite annoying. pls help?thanks? email me [email protected]

  • None of these opinions help. They are just people asking questions....

  • how can i unlock it

  • how do i unlock it

  • i got one and it works pretty amazing here in our country.

  • Different companies have different phone features sometimes

  • Yes u can unlock it and use all over the world.

  • U cant use virgin F3 with another carrier. Virgin and Sprint are CDMA frequency mobiles. All other are GSM, u can use other than virgin and sprint for all carriers if unlocked.

  • hello recently i got this mobile from USA ,T_mobile , can i unlock this phone ..

  • I lost my this phone ten days back. I bought it frm Usa but i was using Pakistan sim. Any way to get it back. I miss it

  • LG f3 from sprint and T-mobile have different designs. Why??

  • Does the mobile with virgin mobile-usa ; if unlocked. can it be available for any other GSM carrier

  • I'm planning to buy this phone, but unfortunately it's not available here in the Philippines. I've read that only metroPcs and at&t brands could be unlocked. How about LG f3 from Sprint? could it be unlocked as well?

  • ILg f3 has both cdma and gsm in one?? Can i use it( virgin mobile-usa) in onther gsm carrier. Thanks so much

  • u can get ur phoned unlocked and can be used in india. Make sure u buy Metropcs or tmobile version... only these models are GSM which works in india..

  • I am going to buy one T-Mobile/Metro PCS of LG F3 from US thru my friend. I want to know that i need to unlock and use it here in india. please confirm me. Thanks.

  • Hi All, I currently have a Sony Xperia Sola and find it a really limited phone. I'm really attracted to this phone cause of the size, 1gb ram and 32gb storage. Can somebody from AUS provide an in depth review of this phone? Will it work on Boots 3g network? I heard that this phone has storage issues (1gb available to the user), is this because the bloatware that LG adds (can this be removed by rooting this phone)??

  • Telstra only? Did LG Aust tell you that? Wonder if it 4G will work on optus...

  • Also available in Australia as a Telstra prepaid

  • Please make this phone available worldwide.

  • Is there a chance to launch LG F3 worldwide?

  • It was not launched globally. Only available in the US.

  • Oh :( Why it wouldn't be available in the Philippines??

  • At first: thanks a lot for your website and the comment !! This mobile is perfect for me !! (big batterie, strong and "small" screen, good specs and good price) When this F3 will available in France ?? If I buy this phone elsewhere (in us for example), will it be easy to make it work in France ? (need to unlock ?) About the warranty in case I buy it in us, will work if I use in France ? Thanks a lot in advance for your help !

  • I think it will not be available in the Philippines.

  • When would it be available in the PHILIPPINES?

  • I wait f3 in iran come on lg!

  • we want optimus f3 available worldwide.

  • Just another request for making this phone available worldwide. I am from Serbia and based on specifications and price given here on this site and probably better price with some mobile network provider I think it would be a big seller here. This is the kind of phone which I need, not too big with great mid range specs for a nice price.

  • I like smaller phones, but this one is already a bit too small for me. But, on T-Mobile at least, you can also get the F6, which is basically the same phone but with larger screen and apparently better mic/speaker. Otherwise the devices are near identical, so it is up to the use as to what they prefer.

  • just optimus F3 just LG

  • very nice dimensions with feature l wait for f3 in Iran. now lg product have good price in front of samsung

  • lg please global version in iran

  • nice mobile

  • Very dissapointed only one choice of color ,not white

  • lg please global version

  • Tmobile/Metropcs version of F3 will work in India(Airtel/Vodafone/Idea etc). Sprint/Virgin versions are CDMA tht will work with Reliance CDMA network if unlocked!!

  • will this work in india?????? anyone please say anything about it....

  • First day impression: This thing is one damn snappy 4-incher. Everything appears to be incredibly fluid (Adreno 305 is pretty dang good). For you benchmark loyalists, I ran Quadrant once and got a score just a hair higher than the HTC One X (not that the One X was a ground breaker of any sort, or that 800x480 devices should ever be compared to 720 or higher - still not bad at all).

  • Lg optimus F3 T-mobile, when comes in Macedonian market.... ??? regards

  • LG, Please global available

  • Will it be available in nigeria pls???i want to buy it.

  • LG optimus F3 is about the best mid-range smartphone I have read about lately. I am currently using optimus L5 II but not satisfied with it due to lack of front camera, 512 MB RAM, single core CPU etc. I think my specs were averagely met in F3 but is not available in my coutry in Africa. So I am appealing to LG mobile to produce a global version of this phone, otherwise it would not be wrong to say that LG mobile is practising complete descrimination against other regions that patronize her products.

  • No MHL or HDMI i cant connect it with my tv. (my tv doesnt have wifi)

  • Micro sd up to 32GB. who cares about 2GB internal!

  • I cannot wait to buy it

  • it doesn't have 4 gb internal memo but only 2 gb.. so beware of it..

  • LG Optimus F3 will be in the white edition ????

  • I m awaiting this nice cellphone in Saudi Arab and in INDIA .What amazing device ....good style..best features...excellent specification.

  • Lg Optimus F3 when realase in Macedonia.... ????

  • I wait for buy this phone in Iran .I have lg e460 . it wonderful me . I like buy new f3 lg phone

  • LG Optimus F3 need to realase white edition plz.... !!!

  • thher is a gsm model

  • Would make a huge success in Brazil with this specs on GSM networks.

  • a very good phone at low price. LG should bring this specifications in GSM. It would be amazing.

  • Pls have this phone available worldwide, we have also citizens with Disability which can benifit this gadget, this would be a big help for them not only in US.

  • I want to now if the worldwide version of this smartphone could be released later? thanks

  • pls mKe international version..thanks..//_^v