Just a few short months after launching the impressive Vibe K4 Note (Reviews | Pictures) Lenovo has unveiled another low-cost phone called the Vibe K5 Plus. The new Mã Sản Phẩm, which launched in India before any other country, does not replace the popular K4 chú ý. In fact, priced at just Rs. 8,499, the K5 Plus is below the K4 cảnh báo in Lenovo"s hierarchy. This awkwardness is apparently due to lớn internal reshuffling as the company gears up khổng lồ integrate Motorola"s popular mid-budget offerings inlớn its lineup.
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Naming aside, it"s pretty clear where the new model"s aspirations lie. There are a lot of great phones khổng lồ be had for Rs. 10,000 or less today, and Lenovo wants in on that action. In that sense, the K5 Plus is more of an update khổng lồ the extremely popular K3 lưu ý (Đánh Giá | Pictures), bringing a more premium look to lớn an even lower price point.
Look & feelThe Vibe K5 Plus looks great for a low-cost phone. We received a silver unit for nhận xét, but this phone is also available in gold & grey. There"s a front camera and sensor window above the screen, and capacitive sầu navigation buttons below. These buttons are sadly not backlit so you might wind up fumbling a bit in the dark. There isn"t much wasted space to lớn the sides of the screen, which makes this phone pretty easy lớn use with one hand.
The rear & sides are formed inlớn a single shell that pops off with relatively little effort. It might look lượt thích there are strips of plastic on the top và bottom with metal in the middle, but it"s only a thin plate over an all-plastic structural frame. Still, it feels cool to lớn the touch, which is part of its premium feel.
The camera is in one corner, with a single LED flash next to lớn it. More interesting are the twin speaker grilles & Dolby biệu tượng công ty lower down - stereo speakers are rare on phones in general, let alone budget ones. The 3.5mm audio socket & Micro-USB port are both on the top, & the power và volume buttons are on the right, leaving the bottom và left blank.
The battery is removable, và you"ll have lớn pop it out in order khổng lồ get to lớn the two Micro-SIM slots & the microSD slot. You get a 1.5A charger, USB cable, & adhesive screen protector in the box, but no headphối.
Specifications và softwareThe Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus has a mid-range Qualcomm Snaprồng 616 processor running the show. There"s 2GB of RAM và 16GB of storage along with LTE support on either SIM. The battery has a capađô thị of 2750mAh và all the usual standards, including công nghệ Bluetooth không dây 4.1, Wi-Fi b/g/n, AGPS, and USB-OTG are present và accounted for.
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The display measures 5 inches diagonally & has a resolution of 1080x19đôi mươi which pretty good for this price range. The phone also supports Lenovo"s AntVR headset for immersive sầu truyền thông experiences. The rear camera has a 13 megapx sensor and the front camera has a 5 megapixel sensor. Video recording goes up to lớn 1080p. There"s also Dolby audio enhancement, as the hình ảnh sản phẩm on the bachồng suggests.
Other than that, there are no extras such as a fingerprint reader or IR emitter. Other low-cost phones vị offer these as quality selling points, and it seems that Lenovo is going with the metallic body as the Vibe K5 Plus"s main advantage.
Lenovo has decided not khổng lồ give budget segment buyers all the benefits of the revamped Vibe UI that shipped with the premium Vibe X3 earlier this year. There"s no dedicated tiện ích drawer or even an option to lớn switch one on. The base OS is Android 5.1.1 but yet again, we see a manufacturer overriding the standard Android Recents button và turning it into a useless Menu button on a low-end phone.
There"s a Lenovo Companion ứng dụng which lets you check for software updates và perform basic subsystem tests, as well as the familiar SHAREit and SYNCit for transferring files và backing up data respectively. Theme Center offers six options và a variety of wallpaper images, but nothing close to lớn stock Android which we would have liked. You also get an assortment of apps including Game Store, Twitter, Skype, WeChat, UC Browser, Flipkart, Myntra, Evernote, and Truecaller, which are thankfully all removable.
PerformanceWe found the Vibe K5 Plus a pleasant phone khổng lồ use, on the whole. The screen is sharp & bright, though colours are just a tiny bit dull. Audio, on the other hvà, is loud và clear. The twin speakers really vị make a difference - we only wish they had been pointing forward. The Dolby Atmos controls do make a difference, but only in supported apps. Our biggest complaint with this phone was that its upper baông chồng got quite hot when doing relatively simple things such as streaming YouTube videos.
Benchmark tests showed that performance is on par with other budget phones. We recorded scores of 35,727 in AnTuTu và trăng tròn,227 overall in Quadrant. 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme gave sầu us 5,596 points & GFXbench ran at 12fps. Curiously though, these scores are overall lower than what the Lenovo K3 lưu ý managed.
Photo quality was mostly okay - there"s a bit of grain on anything that isn"t right in front of the lens, & only close-up shots are really good. Focusing was an issue in all kinds of light - we had to hold very steady when taking shots or the results would be unpredictable. However, most of these things aren"t really problems unless you"re zooming in to lớn photos at full size. You get a small number of filters, but not much else. Video was smooth at 1080p, but we did notice the phone heating up again when recording, There"s also a 30-minute hard limit on đoạn Clip length, which we found unnecessary.
Battery life seemed just about okay in day-to-day use, with the phone making it through the day if usage was relatively light. Our video clip loop thử nghiệm went on for 6 hours, 46 minutes, which is below average. The phone seemed to last well when in standby, but on the other hand, charging was pretty slow.
VerdictIt seems that Lenovo has the makings of another winner on its hands. It could be as popular as the K3 chú ý was, bringing similar features and even better looks to a lower price cấp độ. The only real objections we have with this phone are its weak battery life và tendency to lớn become uncomfortably warm when anything serious is running.
In terms of performance, the Vibe K5 Plus edges out the more expensive sầu Honor 5X (nhận xét | Pictures) & seems like a better deal that similarly priced phones such as the Karbonn Quattro L50 HD (nhận xét | Pictures). However, the Xiaomi Redmi cảnh báo 3 (đánh giá | Pictures) is just one step up in terms of pricing, và you might be a lot happier spending just a little more.
