LENOVO VIBE Z2 PRO REVIEW


Lenovo launched its flagship android smartphone namely VibeZ2 Pro (dual sim) in India which is priced @ 32999/- sold via Flipkart. It is available is Black 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 7.7mm and weighs 179gms. It has 6 inch QuadHD IPS LCD display of resolution 2560 x 1440 with 490 ppi. 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 download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, Wifi Dual Band, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy). But has NFC & lacks IR blaster.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 16MP Optically stabilised 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 Excellent overall. Daytime the images are Excellent 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 quite nice could have been bit better. It does 4K 2160p@30fps & 1080p@30fps HDR video recording with video sta bilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 49mbps & 17mbps respectively and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is Excellent overall. Daytime the video clarity is Excellent and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is pretty nice 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 Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974AC) processor running a quad core at 2.5 GHZ (Cortex-A15 architecture) with 3 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 : 25260.
ANTUTU : 36656.
NENAMARK 2 : 59.4fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a non removable Li-Ion 4000 mah battery. The battery life is above average which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 8H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 8H.
TALKTIME : upto 24H(2G) / upto 22H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 680H(2G) / upto 640H(3G).

PROS
*Good build quality.
*Excellent display and viewing angle.
*Excellent Performance.
*Excellent camera and video recording clarity with 4K recording.
*Very good loudspeaker.
*Good battery life.
*USB OTG & NFC support.

CONS
*Non-Removable Battery.
*No microSD card slot.
*No IR blaster. 
*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.3/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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