Feb 10, 2016 12:13 PM
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This phone is good for its price. BUT!
Lenovo could have done little bits of improvement here and there and this would have killed every other smartphone in the market and so do their own flagship devices . They intentionally let this phone down- software wise, hardware is ok.
The camera is just plain bad, its good enough for social media. Upload it on FB or instagram, and it is fine. Colors are good, skin tones good, even low light is good. Then you may ask, why did I say its bad? Its a terrible cheap sensor, which fails to capture fine details, like text for instant. These lenses and the sensor had to meet the target manufacturing costs, so as for lenovo to make some profit.
The moment you zoom in the pics on a PC, they distort like crazy! forget editing those pics . Its reminds me of my I phone4 camera. Looks good on the retina display, not good enough for editing. macro shots are just okay. Hey! but the color accuracy is great, good job there lenovo. Its a social media cam for the cheapest possible full hd display smartphone.
They intentionally removed basic/advance features from the camera app!for instance you cannot take pictures lower then 13MP! But the 13MP image already looks like a 5 MP image from iphone4 when zoomed in and compared to its captured detail .Its a point and shoot cam now! My two year old lenovo k900 have 5 times more options to tweak for that perfect shot, and its worth it when you don't have your DSLR on a sudden planned road trip, made in the middle of the night after clubbing to the nearest hill station.
dolby atmos is a gimmik, impressive software addition for marketing, but it just boosts up the mids and highs of the music track.
Battery backup is at par with one plus one and lenovo k900 . lasts one whole day. charge 100% in morning, 20% while you get back home. 3G always ON, GPS on while driving via google maps for beating the traffic, and occasional music .
I dont mind lenovo removing the app drawer completely, but I mind not able to move the applications on a SD card.
the power saving modes are great! even a GPU saving mode is helpful, but then everything stutters. Well, what the hell! It helps when we need those last drops of battery juice in emergencies - good work lenovo engineers.
not the real deal- DISPLAY -
they say its a full HD, its a cheap panel- it still looks good! maybe because its one glass solution, that popups everything, like on a nexus 5 .The RGB pixel payout is strange! like the ones we see on an amoled, a green sub pixel repeats itself, Thus the green color is more prevalent in every image . Lenovo played smart, they gave a calibration tool for the user to play with. Dial down those over saturated hues if one wants too, but still it doesnt match a good-ole HIGH QUALITY FULL HD RGB PANEL.
I cannot see RGB pixels on my lenovo k900 and lg g2. Those high quality panels have larger very tightly packed pixels. This k3 note display have smaller loosly packed pixels and one can easily see those if tried to. Trying looking it through a magnifying glass, you will understand why this is a very different display then offered by HTC or LG .
VERDICT - is this a good phone? Well, it gets the job done, after the OTA update, the heating issue got resolved. Thank you lenovo. Call quaity is good, speaker phone is loud, microphones pics up faint voice easily while on speaker phone, vibe UI 2.0 is just plain boring for me . It feels delicate and is too(cost cut on gorilla glasss), but is light and grippy. We will never get an update for android-M for such cheap model. Camera will disappoint many who loves photography and the cheap display will one day come up with dead pixels and odd color tones which lenovo wont cover in warranty obviously.
All in all - you get what you pay for! no wonder some phones from brands like LG, HTC, even LENOVO flagships with same config are for 25k .
