XIAOMI REDMI 2: REVIEW, SPECS AND PRICE

Gaming that too on a budget device was never so gratifying for as it is now with the Xiaomi Redmi 2. The best Gaming experience in the price that one can ever get.

The Xiaomi Redmi 2 was launched in January 2015. The Xiaomi Redmi 2 just as it’s predecessor has a great number of features to offer the users. Xiaomi Redmi 2 priced at Rs. 7000 is a phone to be looked for if you are looking for a smartphone in this range.

Display and Design

The phone offers a 4.7 inch multi-touch screen with a resolution of 1280x720p. Xiaomi Redmi 2 has an IPS LCD display which is protected with AGC Dragontrail glass. The display has 3 red-coloured capacitive touch button which glows in dark. The touch is smooth and scratch resistant. The viewing angles which the Xiaomi Redmi 2 provide are just amazing. Xiaomi Redmi 2 provides  high pixel density of 312 ppi.  The text appears sharp and the colors are vibrant with a small warm tinge on the phone. The display does well on the outdoors and the auto-brightness features helps very well for outdoor viewing. The display provides a good gaming and video playback experience.

Moving onto the design of the phone, Xiaomi Redmi 2 resembles its predecessor ,Xiaomi Redmi 1 but has a matte back cover this time. The phone looks like the miniature of Redmi Note 4g. The Voice Controls and the Power button are provided with a silver finish on the right hand side. There is a 3.5 mm audio jack on the top and a micro-usb jack at the bottom of the phone. Xiaomi Redmi 2 is 9.4 mm thick and feels a bit heavy weighing 133 gms. The edges are round and the rear matte finished cover provides a decent grip.

Xiaomi Redmi 2: Camera

The Xiaomi Redmi 2 has an 8 MP rear camera and a 2 MP Selfie snapper with LED Flash. The Camera is fully loaded with features and various filters and the camera interface is easy to use. The Camera provides a bit over saturated images but the colors pop out and displays an impressive image. You can click pictures in various modes like Twilight, Panaroma, HDR and the manual mode.

he rear Camera has a sensor of 1.3 micrometer pixel size. The camera performs well in the day conditions but suffers a bit in the night time. The autofocus is not the fastest but works well while clicking picture. It tends to take time while shooting a video. The Xiaomi Redmi 2 lets you record at 1080p at 30frps and lets you record a good quality video with good noise. It is not the best camera available but at a price range of Rs. 6999, I guess this does its job pretty well.

Software and Performance

The Xiaomi Redmi 2 has the MIUI 6 interface which is quite brilliant and runs on an older version of Android 4.4.4(kitkat). No words about the Android update from Xiaomi till now but may be we will be getting the lollipop update. The MIUI 6 is a fully customizable user interface which resemble the Apple IOS.

On the performance wise the phone works pretty well. Games like Modern Combat 5, Real Racing and NFS Most wanted played smoothly without any lag on medium settings. Gaming experience is really good. Gaming experience is enhanced by the audio output provided by the speaker which do provide a little bass. But the apps and games cannot be transferred into your micro-SD card.

On the Antutu benchmarks, the Xiaomi Redmi 2 scored 21155 which is more than Lenovo A6000 (20974). But it lags behind from Moto E 2015 (22061). This score is quite excellent for the price and specs. On the Nenamark 2 of fps scoring, the Redmi 2 gets a 54 fps which is equal to the Lenovo A6000  and higher than the Moto E 2015. On the Vellamo Benchmarks, the phone got a great 1555 which is 2 short of the Lenovo A6000 (1557) but beats its rival Moto E 2015 easily.

Battery Review for Xiaomi Redmi 2

The Xiaomi Redmi 2 has an 2200 mAh battery which lets you walk through  a whole day of normal usage with one time charge on 3G network. The phone has the Quick Charge 1.0. This enables the phone to charge your Redmi 2 upto 40 % faster. The battery may run out soon while play heavy games like NFS Most Wanted,etc. It would have been better if the smartphone has a bigger battery.

Verdict

At a price of 6999, the Xiaomi Redmi 2 has two major competitors – Moto E 2015 and Lenovo A6000. The Xiaomi Redmi 2 offers good specs and a good gaming experience. The phone camera stands tall against both of its rivals and does record videos in 1080p. Performance wise all the three smartphones stand equally. But the MIUI interface wins an edge

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LENOVO A7000: REVIEW, SPECS AND PRICE

The attribute of hearing music is reinforced to a cordial extent with the abutment of Dolby Atmos Sounds which facilitates the sounds to emerge from all directions while using a headphone.


Just a few days back the Chinese Giant Lenovo launched its brand new Lenovo A7000. Everyone had a distinct eye on this smartphone at the MWC 15 because its predecessor smartphone Lenovo A6000 was a palatial success in India. Besides being quite handy with its 4G facility, this new smartphone is embedded with the best of the hardware so that it could strongly withstand the storm of any upcoming phone in the Indian markets.

Display and Design

The display of this phone is enhanced by a 5.5-inch HD display of 1280 x 720p resolution. Any phone with this congenial quality of display can give exemplary results by the production of high quality display specifically mend for those who are fond of watching movies and videos in their smartphones. The screen size of this phone facilitates the user to interpret things really well. But some users may find the big size as disadvantage for their hands.

Lenovo A7000 has an articulate body design of dimensions 152.6 x 76.2 x 8 mm and it is quite easy to handle due its lightweight of just 140 g. The scientific fact regarding the light weight of the phone is hidden in the material used to make this phone. Furthermore, to talk about the colors then this phone is available in Onyx Black, Pearl White colors. Even the handling of Lenovo A7000 is very convenient due to its body which just lasts for around 8 mm thick.

Lenovo A7000: Camera

The Lenovo A7000 has an embedded primary camera of 8 MP. The primary camera has a pixel quality of 3264 x 2448 pixels. It also has an imperative feature of LED flash which facilitates the camera to click better snaps when we confront places with dim light or specifically at the night time. It is also ingrained with features such as Geo-tagging, panorama and more. Furthermore, Lenovo tried to deceive the users by adding the Selfie Stick support feature to its smartphone. What this features does is that in case you are unaware, then the ring shaped stick key mend for selfie gets activated and the diffuser flash connected to the audio port avails the user a facility to click selfies even during dim light or even in an absolute dark room.

The focusing ability of the phone is exceptional and the camera focuses instantly. There is no scope for any lag during focusing. For the front camera, Lenovo A7000 has a 5 MP snapper which is excellent for taking selfies. This feature is boosted further by the editing options that the phone provides.

In comparison to the phones similar to Lenovo A7000 that is YuYureka and Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G, Lenovo A7000 lags behind them when compared for the rear camera being just 8MP while the later ones having a 13MP camera each. But when it comes to the front camera then all the 3 have 5MP front camera and are equipped with the provision of LED flash.

Software and Performance

The Lenovo A7000 comes with the latest version of Android version that is v5.0 Lollipop. This is the best part of this phone and this acts as a positive point for this phone against its arch rivals. On the processing side, Lenovo A7000 has an Octa-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU unit and Mediatek MT6752M Chipset. The smartphone also features Vibe Skin UI and it has Java Support for its more effective functioning.

Now lets consider some statistics of the benchmarks. The Lenovo A7000 bagged a considerable score (42538) on Antutu Benchmark which is just slightly over Huawei Mate 7 (42332) and Xiaomi Mi 4 (42210). On the contrary, Lenovo A7000 falls beneath the other leding brands like Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (49140), Google Nexus 6 (49145) and way beneath the Samsung Galaxy S6 (67520) and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (62373). While its biggest arch rivals Yu Yureka and Redmi Note 4G – got 31578 and 21969 respectively in the same Antutu Benchmark.

When we consider the benchmark scores of GeekBench 3 Suite, Lenovo A7000 scored 737 in single-core and 3,734 in the multi-core test and its final score was 29749 which was enough to beat its rivals Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G (11251) and YuYureka (18055).

Battery Review for Lenovo A7000

The Battery present in Lenovo A7000 is a Li-Po 2900 mAh  battery and the best prospect of the battery is that it is a removable battery. It is basically composed of a mixture of Lithium and Polonium. A combination of these 2 elements enhances the battery life of the phone. The battery has a standby life of up to 264 hours when operated under 2G and surprisingly the same standby is achieved even in 3G mode.

Now considering the talk time then, Lenovo A7000 has a talktime battery life of about 39 hours when operated under 2G. On the other hand when it is operated under 3G then the there is a drastic decrease in the battery life to around 16 hours.

Verdict

At a reasonable price of Rs.8999, Lenovo A7000 avails you with so many facilities that other phones can never even think about. The best part lies behind its OS and the new Dolby Atmos sound feature which has been seen for the first time in a smartphone.  So it may be a good deal for you to have such a device in your pockets and that too for just 8999 .

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