LENOVO A7000 REVIEW


Lenovo launched its successor of its budget android smartphone namely A7000 in India which is priced at 8,999/- sold via Flipkart. It is available is Black, White and Yelloow shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is good. It has scratch resistant glaass on front and a matte plastic on the back and feels very good in hands. It is slim at 8 mm and weighs 140gms. It has 5.5 inch HD IPS LCD display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 267ppi. The viewing angles are Excellent and sunlight legibility of the display is very good. It runs on Vibe 2.0 User Interface. The display supports 5 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 8GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 32GB. 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, Wifi hotsopt as well as Bluetooth 4.0LE (Low Energy).

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 8MP 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 quite good could have been bit better. It does 720p@24fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 10 mbps respectively and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is above average overall. Daytime the video clarity is pretty good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is average could have been bit better. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's which does 720p video recording and image clarity is quite good but video clarity could have been better.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 5.0 Lollipop out of the box. It has a Mediatek (MTK6752M) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running an Octa-Core processor clocked at 1.5 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture) with 2 GB RAM and Mali-T760 MP2 (400MHZ Dual core) GPU. The performance is very good which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 42560.
ANTUTU : 24656.
NENAMARK 2 : 59fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Removable Li-Pro 2900 mah battery. The battery life is pretty good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 7H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 7:30H.
TALKTIME : upto 16H(2G) / upto 14H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 450H(2G) / upto 430H(3G).

PROS
*Pretty good build quality.
*Excellent display and viewing angle.
*Very good Performance.
*Very good camera and video recording clarity.
*Quite good loudspeaker with Dolby Atmos feature.
*Removable battery & Pretty good battery life
*4G and USB OTG.
*Very good pricing.

CONS
*Video recording clarity is not as good than that of image as frame-rate is just around 20fps mark.
*Device tends to get quite hot quickly.
*Loudspeaker could have had bit more volume.
*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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