LENOVO Z2 PLUS REVIEW


Lenovo launched its upper mid range flagship android smartphone namely Z2 Plus (Hybrid Dual-Sim) in India which is priced starting at 17,999/- . It is available in Black and White shades.The online links are given below so check them out to keep track of current price & availability or to pick one of them.



SPECS OVERVIEW

5 inch 1080p IPS Display

8.5mm Slim & weighs 149gms

32/64GB Storage

13MP PDAF Rear & 8MP Front Cameras

Snapdragon 820 (Quad-Core CPU)

Adreno 530 GPU with 3/4GB RAM

Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow

Fingerprint & Gyroscope Sensor

NFC, USB Type-C (OTG)

3000 mah Battery 

Lets Dive Into The Review!

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is great overall. It has a 2.5D Curved glass on front and back which feels great in hands. It is slim at 8.5mm and weighs 149gms. It has 5 inch Full HD IPS LCD display of resolution 1920 x 1280 with 441 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Great. It runs on Google Now (Z-UI 2.0 International region) User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 32GB/64GB of internal storage which is not further expandable. The device features dedicated multimedia apps such as gallery app stores all your images and has built video player as well as music player which stores and plays respectively which are very good. FM radio comes is not supported unfortunately. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, Dual Band Wifi, Wifi Direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG, Bluetooth 4.1 A2DP & LE and GPS & GLONASS support come standard but lacks NFC support. It also has fingerprint scanner (U Touch what lenovo calls it & also comes with various gestures),USB Type-C and Gyroscope sensor support which is great. The device also comes U-Health features which are very good.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP (1/2.6 inch Sensor, F/2.2 Aperture, 1.4 Micron Pixel size) rear camera with Phase detection autofocus and Dual LED (Dual-Tone) flash which features 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 and clarity is just good could have been slightly better. It does 4K 2160p@ 30fps, Full HD 1080p@60fps HDR & Slo-Motion video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 48 mbps for 4k &18 mbps for full HD and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is Great overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is just good could have been slightly better. It also has a 8MP (F/2.0 Aperture, 1.4 Micron Pixel size) front camera for selfe's which does 1080p video and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 6.0.1 Lollipop out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (MSM8996) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running an Quad-Core processor which is a combination of a Dual-Core processor clocked at 2.15 GHZ (Kryo) and a Dual-Core processor clocked at 1.6 GHZ (Kryo) with 4GB RAM and Adreno 530 (600 Mhz Single-Core) GPU. The performance is quite Excellent overall which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run quite very well and there is no major lag at all.
QUADRANT : 41870.
ANTUTU 6: 145156.
NENAMARK 2 : 60fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-Removable Li-Ion 3500 mah battery with Qualcomm Quick charge 3.0 support with Lenovo's power saving options. The battery life is Quite great which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 8:30H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 9H.
TALKTIME : upto 18H(2G) / upto 17H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 520H(2G) / upto 500H(3G).

PROS
*Great build quality.
*Great display and viewing angle.
*Excellent Performance.
*Great overall Camera and video recording clarity.
*Fingerprint sensor, USB Type-C & Gyroscope sensor support.
*4G VOLTE & USB OTG Support 
*Pretty good Loudspeaker.
*Quite Great battery life.
*Very Aggressive pricing.

CONS
*Non-Removable battery.
*No Laser Auto-focus.
*Tends to get quite warm during high intensive tasks.
*No NFC support.
*No Micro SD card slot.
*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.

To Know The Current Price And To Buy This Phone Now! Click The Link Below.
AMAZON.IN :http://amzn.to/2hZpn6P 
AMAZON.COM :http://amzn.to/2lgoxzZ

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