Taking advantage of
the festival season Lenovo will launch 4 new smartphones in India this month
and at the top of the ladder will be Lenovo A850 which is 5.5 inch display
Phablet. This Phone comes with a MediaTek Processor other than popular MT6589
and will compete with other quad core devices priced around 15,000. Let’s take
a look at what Lenovo is offering to surpass the competition.
Camera
and Internal Storage
The Auto focus camera
in this smartphone has a 5 MP sensor with 2592х1944 pixels and LED flash for
low light photography. Most manufacturers will offer you an 8 MP or 13 MP
sensors in this price range. The camera quality is much more than the Mega Pixel
count and though we expect the hardware quality to be above average from
Lenovo, we can only be definite after we review the device. A front VGA camera
is also available for video calling.
The Internal Storage
capacity is 4 GB which is not impressive in a device above 15,000 INR.
Although, something new that sets the storage apart from the crowd is that it
can be extended up to 64 GB using MicroSD card rather than the conventional 32
GB, Something which will also be present in the upcoming HTC Desire 500
Processor
and Battery
Lenovo A850 is
powered by MT6582M MediaTek Quad core processor based on Cortex A7 ARM
architecture, which has each core clocked at a frequency of 1.3 GHz. The clock
frequency is marginally more than the conventional MT6589 SoC, but in the same
price range, phones like Wammy Passion Z+ will offer you MT6589T clocked at 1.5
GHz.
The GPU backing this
processor is Mali-400MP2 which has 2 cores clocked at 400MHz and this might
perform better than 357 MHz PowerVR SGX
544 MP GPU in MT6589T. Thus over all this processor will expectedly give you
better gaming performance than the rest of the competition. The RAM capacity
backing up this processor is 1GB which is pretty standard in this price range.
The Battery Capacity
is 2250 mAh which again considering the Massive 5.5 Inch Display may fall short
on several counts. The battery capacity none the less remains above average.
Display
and Features
The display Size of
5.5 inch won’t be very comfortable to hold but this size is in great demand in
Indian market acc to the latest IDC survey which claims that Phablets account
for above 30 percent of market share in Indian market.
The 5.5 Inch IPS LCD
display will sport 540 x 960 pixels qHD resolution which amounts to 200 ppi.
The larger display will appeal more to those who love to read on their
smartphones. At the pixel density of 200 ppi you will be able to see resolved
pixels and the text is expected to be not that crisp.
This phone comes with
Dual SIM dual Standby functionality and runs on Android 4.2 Jelly bean version
which will soon be the next best version with the launch of Android KitKat next
month. Hope fully Lenovo will provide with OTA updates next month with this
device.
Looks
and Connectivity
From the Pics it is
evident the body design of this smartphone is quite simple. A round glass
covering the camera sensor is located at top center on the back panel where as
the phone appears more flat with slightly curved corners.
Body dimensions are
153.5 x 79.5 x 9.5 mm and the phone weighs 184 grams which is acceptable
considering the large screen size. (Micromax Canvas Doodle 2 with 5.7 inch
display weighs 220 grams) The connectivity features include 3G, EDGE, WiFi, GPS
with AGPS support and Bluetooth with A2DP.
Comparison
This phone will
compete against phones with 5.5 inch phones in India like Micromax Doodle 2 and
Karbonn Titanium S9 which come with better display resolution and are priced
slightly above Lenovo A850.
Also this phone will
face competition from the 5 inch devices like XOLO Play T1000, Lava Iris 504Q,
XOLO Q1000, Panasonic P11 and Micromax Canvas 4
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