Lenovo has announced an open sale for its most affordable dual sim 4G smartphone in India A2010. The open sale for Lenovo A2010 already started from today at 12PM. You can purchase the device in two color variants- Black and white. This dual sim 4G Android smartphone is available on Flipkart at Rs.4,999. If you are interested to buy, then you can visit here.
Lenovo A2010 is powered by quad-core MediaTek MT6735 processor clocked at 1.0GHz with Mali T720-MP1 GPU and 1GB of RAM. The handset has 8GB of onboard storage which around 4GB is user available. The device also supports microSD card upto 32GB. A2010 4G smartphone runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box.
Lenovo A2010 has 4.5 inch capacitive touch screen with resolution of 854 x 480 Pixels. The connectivity features of the device includes 2G, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and microUSB. This Lenovo 4G Dual sim phone houses 5MP primary camera and 2MP front facing camera. It has 2000 mAh Li-Polymer battery.
Considering the price point, the specification of the device is not much impressive. The smartphones such as Phicomm Energy 653 looks more attractive than this. It has 5 inch IPS screen with 720p HD resolution. The device is powered by 1.1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 processor with 1GB of RAM.
Lenovo has launched Phab Plus phablet in China. The device is priced at CNY 2,599(Approximately Rs.27,000 in India). With 6.8 inch display, it will compete with Huawei Ascend P8max which also features 6.8 inch full HD display screen. This smartphone will be available via China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom telecom providers in China. At the time of writing this post, there is no update on whether this device will be lauched in India or not.
Lenovo Phab Plus runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop with Vibe UI. The device sports 6.8 inch display with screen resolution of 1080×1920 pixels and 326 ppi pixel density. The device is powered by 1.5GHz 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor with 2GB of RAM and Adreno 405 GPU. Lenovo Phab Plus has 32GB of internal storage and support for microSD card.
Lenovo Phab Plus features 13MP rear camera with Dual LED flash and 5MP front facing camera. It is a dual sim phablet which accepts one Micro-SIM card and the other Nano-SIM. The connectivity features of this new Lenovo phablet includes 4G, 3G, GPS/ A-GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Micro-USB.
Lenovo Phab Plus houses 3500mAh battery which according Lenovo, can deliver up to 24 hours of talk time and up to 350 hours of standby time. Like we have seen with Lenovo K3 Note, this phablet too comes with a rear speaker powered by Dolby Atmos. This dual sim Lenovo phablet measures 186.6×96.6×7.6mm and weighs 220 grams. The device will be available in Metallic Grey and Midnight Blue colours.
Lenovo Phab Plus Specification
6.8 inch display with screen resolution of 1080×1920 pixel resolution and 326 ppi pixel density.
Android 5.0 Lollipop with Vibe UI.
1.5GHz 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor with 2GB of RAM and Adreno 405 GPU.
32GB of internal storage and support for microSD card.
13MP rear camera with Dual LED flash.
5MP front facing camera.
4G, 3G, GPS/ A-GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Micro-USB.
Asus Zenfone 2 has many variants. These variants causes confusion. You should be very careful when you buy Zenfone 2. Asus Zenfone 2 Laser is the new addition to the list. In this Zenfone 2 Laser, there are two variants. First one is powered by Snapdragon 615 SoC with 3GB 0f RAM and another one is powered by Snapdragon 410 SoC with 2GB of RAM. In this post, we will be doing the review on Asus Zenfone 2 Laser ZE550KL base variant which has Snapdragon 410 chipset.
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser sports 5.5 inch IPS screen with resolution of 720×1280 pixels. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 4. Colors and brightness are decent. However, if you set, auto brightness, the brightness level is little low. The device has screen to body ratio of 72%. Due to this, though it has 5.5 inch screen, phone does not feel much big. The design is identical to the Asus Zenfone 2 which we have seen already.
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser is powered by Snapdragon 410 SoC with 2GB of RAM. It has 16GB of internal storage and support for microSD card upto 128GB. It is dual sim smartphone and both sim supports 4G. The standard connectivity features such as 2G, 3G, Bluetooth, microUSB, WiFi also available.
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser has 13MP rear camera with Dual tone flash and Laser. There is also a 5MP front facing camera. The laser guided rear camera does a good job when it comes to taking macro shots. The laser technology based focus system is useful only for taking the close objects. The camera does a decent job. However, in bright day light, images taken with auto settings produces wash out images. Indoor and low light performance is just ok. The front facing camera performance is also decent. There is one con here. That is default camera app cannot record videos using the front facing camera.
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser is powered by 3000mAh battery. This is one of the main attraction of the device apart from laser guided camera. The battery lasts almost a day with heavy usage and with casual usage, it lasts around 2 days. The screen on time is around 6 hours which is very good for a Android phone in this budget.
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser run on Android 5.0 Lollipop and ZenUI on top of it. There are few tweaks which are very useful such as double to tap to wake up or go to sleep etc. Unfortunately, Asus bundled many bloatwares which cannot be uninstalled easily by the user. The day to day performance is good enough and not felt much lag. The call quality of the device is excellant. One of the disadvantage of Asus Zenfone 2 Laser is its speakers. The volume of this speaker is bit low.
Advantages and disadvantages of Asus Zenfone 2 Laser
Pros of Zenfone 2 Laser
Excellent battery life.
quick and accurate auto focus on macro shots.
4G connectivity on both sim.
Decent performance.
Good sturdy build quality.
Cons of Zenfone 2 Laser
No 1080 display: It would have been great if it had 1080p resolution for a 5.5 inch screen.
Low speaker output: The speaker output on this device is bit low.
No video recording features for front facing camera.
Average camera performance on open environment.
No latest Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser Specification
Android 5.0 Lollipop with ZenUI
13 MP Primary Camera with Dual tome flash and Laser
5 MP Secondary Camera
Dual Sim (LTE + LTE)
5.5 inch Capacitive Touchscreen with 720p resolution and Corning Gorilla Glass 4 Protection.
1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM8916 Quad Core Processor with 2GB of RAM.
16GB internal storage & Expandable Storage Capacity of 128 GB.
Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime is a incremental upgrade over original Redmi 2. Another USP of this device is, it is made in India. The device is manufactured at Foxconn facility in Sri City. The price of Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime in India is Rs.6,999. As it is a incremental upgrade, we will see the difference between the Redmi 2 and Redmi 2 Prime.
Both Redmi 2 variant comes with 4.7 inch IPS LCD screen with screen resolution of 720x 1280 and pixel density of 312 ppi. There is no visible difference here. The dimensions of the devices are same at 134.00×67.20×9.40. In this section, both are same.
Processor:
Both Redmi 2 and Redmi 2 prime is powered by 64-bit 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 CPU processor. Once again there is no difference.
Operating System:
Both smartphones runs on Android Kitkat with MIUI 6 skin on top of it. It is sad to know that, there is no Android 5.0 out of the box when there are multiple smartphones with much less price available with Lollipop. In this section too, you will not get any thing more.
Camera:
In terms of specifications, both smartphones features 8MP primary camera with LED flash and 2MP front facing camera. But with short time with Redmi Prime, i felt that, original Redmi 2 camera is slightly better.
Battery:
Once again there is no change. Both Redmi 2 and Redmi 2 Prime feature 2200 mAh battery which lasts for almost full day with casual usage. There is also a quick charger feature on these devices.
Connectivity:
As the SoC is same, there is no difference in connectivity. The connectivity features of these Xiaomi’s smartphone are dual SIM (both SIMs of the smartphones support 4G LTE), WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, FM, etc. There is no NFC.
RAM and storage:
This is the segment where there is a difference. The Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. This is the double the RAM and storage compared to original Redmi 2. Redmi 2 has only 1GB RAM and 8GB of internal storage. Both smartphones support for microSD card.Redmi 2 Prime is the winner here.
Price:
Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime price is Rs.6,999 and Redmi 2 Price is Rs.5999.
Verdict:
With a extra Rs,1000, you will be getting extra 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage. So if you are planning to buy Xiaomi Redmi 2, then it will be advisable to consider Redmi 2 Prime .
Asus Zenfestival 2015 witnessed launch of new variants of popular Zenfone 2 smartphone in India. The newly launched smartphones are ZenFone Selfie, ZenFone 2 Laser, the ZenFone 2 Deluxe and ZenFone Max. The common feature of all 4 smartphone includes Android 5.0 Lollipop, 4G LTE support, and dual-SIM (Micro-SIM) dual active support. Let us have quick look into these new smartphones from Asus.
New Variants of Asus Zenfone 2
I have already written a detailed post on comparing different variants of Asus Zenfone 2, in one of my previous post with the model numbers. The earlier variants majorly differentiated by the storage limit and display screen. All previous models were powered by Intel Atom processors with different clock speed. But, now Asus Zenfone 2 available with Snapdragon Soc too. We will discuss more on this by looking into individual new Asus Zenfone 2 variants.
The main attraction of the Asus Zenfone 2 Deluxe is its design. It also has 13MP PixelMaster camera with laser auto-focus technology. This technology helps to take instant shots on near object. Below are the specification of Asus Zenfone 2 Deluxe. There are two sub variants of this model based on the internal storage. Except that, all the other specifications remains same.
2.3 GHz Intel Atom Z3580 Quad Core Processor with 4GB of RAM.
PowerVR G6430 GPU and OpenGL 3.2 support.
5.5 inch IPS display with 1920 x 1080 Full HD and Asus TruVivid Technology.
64GB/128GB internal storage.
5GB Asus Webstorage and 100GB Google Drive storage for 2 years.
microSD card support upto 128GB.
13MP PixelMaster rear camera with laser auto-focus technology.
5MP front facing camera with large f/2.0 aperture and wide angle(85 degree) lense.
Android 5.0 Lollipop with ZenUI.
3000mAh lithium polymer battery with Boostmaster fast charging technology(Charge upto 60% capacity in 39 minutes).
Asus Zenfone 2 Deluxe Price
Asus Zenfone 2 Deluxe 64GB variant price is Rs.22,999 and 128GB variant price is Rs.29,999.
Asus ZenFone Selfie
Asus ZenFone Selfie is designed for selfie lovers. It has twin 13MP PixelMaster cameras and a dual-color, dual-LED Real Tone flash at both front and rear. One more feature of this smartphone is,it is powered by 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939 Octa Core Processor The specification of this smartphone are given below. This smartphone available with two variants based on storage capacity and RAM capacity.
5.5 inch IPS display with 1920 x 1080 Full HD and Asus TruVivid Technology.
GB RAM with 16GB internal storage or 3GB RAM with 32GB internal storage.
5GB Asus Webstorage and 100GB Google Drive storage for 2 years.
microSD card support upto 128GB.
13MP front facing camera with f/2.0 aperture,wide angle lens and Dual LED real tone Flash.
13MP rear facing camera with f/2.0 aperture, wide angle lens, 5 element auto focus lense/Laser auto focus for 0.3 second focus time and Dual LED real tone Flash.
Android 5.0 Lollipop with ZenUI.
3000mAh lithium polymer removable battery.
Asus Zenfone Selfie Price
Asus ZenFone Selfie with 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage is Rs.15,999. For the variant with 3GB RAM with 32GB internal storage price is Rs.17,999.
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser ZE550KL
This one of the most affordable variants of Asus Zenfone 2. It is powered by Snapdragon 410 Soc with 2GB of RAM. It has 5.5 inch IPS capacitive touch screen with 720HD resolution. The screen has Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection. The other features of the device includes 5MP front facing camera with f/2.0 and wide angle(85 degree) lens. This device too comes with 13MP rear facing camera with f/2.0 aperture, wide angle lens, 5 element auto focus lense/Laser auto focus for 0.3 second focus time and Dual LED real tone Flash.
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser ZE550KL Specification
5.5 inch IPS capacitive touch screen with 720HD resolution
Snapdragon 410 Soc with 2GB of RAM
5MP front facing camera with f/2.0 and wide angle(85 degree)
13MP rear facing camera with f/2.0 aperture, wide angle lens, 5 element auto focus lense/Laser auto focus for 0.3 second focus time and Dual LED real tone Flash.
3000 mAh battery.
Android 5.0 Lollipop with ZenUI.
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser ZE550KL Price: Rs.9,999
Asus Zenfone Maxx ZC550KL
It has many common features of Asus Zenfone 2 Laser. The main difference is battery. Asus Zenfone Maxx houses huge 5000 mAh battery. One more feature of this smartphone is it can be used as power bank.
Asus Zenfone Maxx ZC550KL Specification
5.5 inch IPS capacitive touch screen with 720HD resolution
Snapdragon 410 Soc with 2GB of RAM
8/16GB internal storage.
5MP front facing camera with f/2.0 and wide angle(85 degree)
13MP rear facing camera with f/2.0 aperture, wide angle lens, 5 element auto focus lense/Laser auto focus for 0.3 second focus time and Dual LED real tone Flash.
5000 mAh battery.
Android 5.0 Lollipop with ZenUI.
In the Asus Zenfestival 2015, Asus also launched new variants of Asus ZenPad 7 and ZenPad 8. As far as accessories Asus has released ZenFlash( Xenon Flash light), ZenEar, View Flip Cover Deluxe and Lolliflash.
