LENOVO K3 NOTE REVIEW

Lenovo launched its first android smartphone having full HD display in the budget price namely K3 Note in India which is priced at 9,999/- sold via Flipkart. It is available is Black, White and Yellow 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 150gms. It has 5.5 inch Full HD IPS LCD display of resolution 1920 x 1280 with 401ppi. 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 16GB 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 4.1 support. 

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13P 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 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 17 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 (MTK6752) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running an Octa-Core processor clocked at 1.7 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 quite well and there is a bit lag at heavy graphic settings.
QUADRANT : 43560.
ANTUTU : 23656.
NENAMARK 2 : 56.5fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Removable Li-Pro 2900 mah battery. The battery life is above average which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 5:30H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto :5:45H.
TALKTIME : upto 14H(2G) / upto 12H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 430H(2G) / upto 400H(3G).

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

CONS
*Battery life could have been little bit better.
*Device tends to get little warm quickly.
*Loudspeaker could have had bit more volume.
*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.1/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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