LENOVO VIBE X2 REVIEW


Lenovo launched its midrange android smartphone namely Vibe X2 (dual sim) in India which is priced @ 19,999/- sold via Flipkart. It is available is Black, Gold, Red and white shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is good. It has corning glass 3 on front and a polycarbonate on the back and feels great in hands. It is slim at 7.3m and weighs 120gms. It has 5 inch FULL HD IPS LCD display of resolution 1920 x 1080 with 441ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Excellent. It runs on custom User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 32GB of internal storage which is not further expandable. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like google play music for songs and a stock gallery and a video player which are good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n/ac, Wifi Dual Band, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.1LE (Low Energy). But lacks NFC & IR blaster.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is Great overall. Daytime the images are Great and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is pretty fine could have been bit better. It does1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 17mbps respectively and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is Great overall. Daytime the video clarity is Great and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is pretty fine could have been bit better. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's which does 1080p video recording and clarity is quite good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.4.4 Kitkat out of the box. It has a MediaTek (MTK6595M) processor running a quad core at 2 GHZ (Cortex-A17 architecture) & a quad core 1.7 ghz (Cortex-A7 architecture) with 2 GB RAM and Adreno 330 (550MHZ single core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 27660.
ANTUTU : 46656.
NENAMARK 2 : 59fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a non removable Li-Pro 2300 mah battery. The battery life is above average which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 7:45H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 6H.
TALKTIME : upto 16H(2G) / upto 13H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 400H(2G) / upto 380H(3G).

PROS
*Good build quality.
*Excellent display and viewing angle.
*Excellent Performance.
*Great camera and video recording clarity.
*Very good loudspeaker.
*USB OTG support.

CONS
*Non-Removable Battery with bit low capacity.
*No microSD card slot.
*No IR blaster & NFC. 
*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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