Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 processor powers the Intuition, and I'm always happy to see that on a spec sheet: I've never seen an S4-powered phone not run fast and smoothly. The Intuition does nearly everything well, from gaming to video streaming to taking pictures, and LG's intense skin doesn't seem to cause any problems. There's some Android-caused lag in things like screen rotation and scrolling through apps, but nothing new or hugely problematic.
Browser performance was the lone exception, and it's a frustrating one. The Intuition's browser is slow, clunky, and has some serious problems with things as basic as scrolling. I downloaded Chrome and it helped a bit, but as a third-party app it's subject to the Intuition's stretched-or-scrunched conundrum.
For a while, I honestly forgot to test the Intuition's phone capabilities, because there's exactly nothing on the device that makes you think it's a cellphone. If you do decide to make calls on the monstrous device, it's fairly average: I could hear and be heard, but the earpiece is a little quiet and the microphone muffles sound slightly. Speakerphone sounds great, until you get more than an arm's length away from the phone, at which point you become totally inaudible to the other caller.
The 8-megapixel camera on the Intuition takes good photos for a cameraphone, certainly on par with the One X or the Galaxy S III. Photos are detailed and well-exposed, and even in bad lighting came out slightly more usable (though still far from good) than many other phones I've tested. Like many cameraphones, it's much better in decent light than in great light — too much sunlight overloads the camera and it can't expose properly. The camera can also shoot 1080p video, and it's exactly the same situation.
The 2,080mAh battery inside the Intuition is enough to get you through a full day, barely, as long as you use LTE sparingly — a two-hour Netflix movie over LTE drained nearly the whole thing, but with normal use (and lots of reliance on Wi-Fi) getting though a day was easy enough. Still, I long for a bigger battery inside the massive chassis.
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