Lenovo K900 review

Lenovo K900 is a stainless steel finish phone with a very beautiful design and attractive specs. This device offers very good features at a much lower price compared to other quality handset makers. This is a phablet sized phone with a full HD display measuring 1920x1080 pixels at 401 pixels per inch density. The text on this device appears fantastic and pictures are life like.

Let’s go ahead with the detailed review of this Phablet to find if it’s worth a buy or not.

Design

Not all the phone sells on the basis of their design quotient but this one certainly has that design quotient to fall for. The Lenovo K900 has a 5.5-inch IPS full HD display and despite being so tall the phone measures only 6.9mm thick, I would rather call it 6.9mm thin. This device feels very light at its given size and weighs only 162g. The Lenovo K900 in the rear is divided in three parts- the top, middle and the bottom. The top and bottom are made of polycarbonate plastic and the middle part is made of Stainless steel which is the battery door (non-removable). The plastics on this device have a metallic finish, which makes it look a very premium device. This Smartphone features a Unibody design unlike other Smartphones in this category. Unibody design lets the maker come out with a slimmer phone.

 The front side of the phone has the FHD IPS Display with touch sensitive buttons in the bottom. The display on this phone supports fingernail and glove touch features. This phone has sharp corners and looks very beautiful.  On the right side of the phone are the Power button and microSIM slot, Volume buttons are located on the left side. The top has no buttons or ports and the bottom holds the microUSB, a micrphone and 3.5mm earphone jack. On the rear side is the Lenovo logo with a speaker at the bottom. The audio on the external speaker is better than other phones of this genre. On the top is a 13MP camera with dual LED flash accompanied with a secondary microphone for noise cancellation. The phone is beautifully designed that none of the hardware on the phone is affected while keeping the phone down. The camera and LED flash is little under placed to avoid scratches and the speaker has a little mount in order to have good sound quality when keeping the phone on a flat surface.

Camera

The Lenovo K900 has one of the best cameras in the Smartphone industry. This device has a 13Mega Pixel Sony Exmor camera sensor with BSI (Back side illuminated) with f/1.8, this camera is dedicated for perfect shots in both high and low light conditions. The camera app on this phone has a lot of filters and effects for the photos you shoot. This camera is also capable of shooting Full HD videos of 1080p resolution. The front camera on this phone is very much feature packed, it’s got an 88 degree wide angle view which enhances the video calling experience, and it is the widest viewing angle in a Smartphone’s front camera. The camera on the front has a 2Mega Pixel resolution.

Rating: 8/10

Display

Lenovo K900 is packed with a massive 5.5-inch capacitive multi-touch display. The display holds Gorilla Glass 2 and provides protection from all the scratches that this giant screen may attract. The display has a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels at a density of 401 pixels per inch. The display on this device is Full HD IPS. With display this huge Lenovo has done a great job in making this device one of the slimmest in the industry. The iPhone 5 measure 7.6mm while Lenovo k900 is only 6.9mm thick. The display has very good viewing angles and gives perfect grip in the hands and does not feel slippery. Just like any other Phablet of this category this device also supports 16 million colors. Moreover the display is very bright and provides good outdoor vision of the content.

Rating: 8.5/10

Battery

This phone has a battery of 2,500mAH capacity. Due to its unibody construction the battery on this device is non-removable. This battery gives a long back up and the standby time is 300 hours both on 2G and 3G. With a phone this big and battery of this size, I would once again praise Lenovo for making such a slim phone. This battery gives a talk time of 15 hours on 2G and 12 hours on 3G. Phones of this size generally come with a smaller capacity battery in-order to make them device lighter. For its given size the phone feels very light in the hands. The best feature this battery has is that it comes with a fast charging technology and charges fully in mere 90 minutes.

Memory and Software

The Lenovo K900 comes with 16GB built-in storage (about 11GB user available). With features like this and an amazing camera, this memory is surely going to prove less for a Smartphone.  The reason being that, this device does not have a microSD slot for memory expansion. Although it has a huge 2GB RAM and offer amazing multi-tasking. There was no lag in multi-tasking and launching apps. The processor on this phone is clocked at 2GHz speed. It offers very good graphic rendering and processing speeds.

On the software front, this device differs from other Android Smartphones. And just like HTC Sense this device runs Android with Lenovo Emotion UI all over the software. The app drawer is different, the Menu is different, the Notification Bar is skinned, the Settings Menu is different and almost all the insides of the Operating System are heavily tweaked. This device does not have Google Play Store, which is pretty much enough to break the deal. The Google Play store can how ever be installed later by rooting the phone but is a hectic process that ends up voiding your warranty.

Rating: 6/10

Conclusion: Deal or No Deal?

This device has pretty awesome features at a decent price. It has got one of the best cameras in the Industry along with an awesome display. The drawback is that it does not have a Google Play Store and does not support memory expansion. If one can compromise with that then this is a very good buy. There are different ways to install APKs so one may consider buying this phone.

Overall Rating: 7.5/10

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