Lenovo Vibe K4 Note Review
The Lenovo Vibe K4 Note smartphone was launched in January 2016. Lenovo Vibe K4 Note is the successor of the last year’s Lenovo K3 Note. The Smartphone is available on Amazon India at starting price of Rs 11,999.
Design
The Lenovo Vibe K4 Note has a curved back and speakers in the front. The Lenovo Vibe k4 Note looks much better with its fine matte back panel and brushed metal frame. The phone is comfortable to hold with just one hand despite the large 5.5-inch screen size. The Lenovo Vibe K4 Note comes with a fingerprint scanner that is quite responsive. You can use it as a short-cut button too. A single tap can open multitasking. The phone weighs 158g and is 9.2mm thick.
Display
The Lenovo Vibe K4 Note features a 5.5-inch (13.97cm) full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) IPS display with a pixel density of 401ppi, and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The text looks crisp while the videos and games look rich and colourful. When it comes to reading and watching movies, the Lenovo Vibe K4 Note’s bigger display makes it the better of the two. There are some features like “smart brightness” (sunlight visibility) and brightness protection (night time browsing) which are really useful in practical.
Software
The Lenovo Vibe K4 Note runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system with a light-version of the company’s Vibe UI. It is one of the most thematic and colourful interfaces we have seen so far in affordable Android smartphones, but the presentation can be a bit confusing initially.
Camera
The Lenovo Vibe K4 Note sports a 13-megapixel rear camera. It is fast and handles colours brilliantly if the ambient light is good. It can pick detail well even in non-focus areas and doesn’t darken them as most budget phone cameras tend to do. The image produced under low light are kind of grainy, lack of details, lack of sharpness. You can’t focus small objects with this camera. Front facing camera is 5-megapixel which is good. It has face-detection and beautification. It is capable of taking wide angle selfies.
Battery
The Lenovo Vibe K4 Note has a 3300mah non-removable battery which easily lasts for a day. It has a battery saver mode and ultimate power saver mode to increase the life further. It will take only 2 hrs to get 5-100%.
Performance
The Lenovo Vibe K4 Note is powered by a 64 bit octa-core MediaTek MT 6753 CPU with Mali T720 GPU, coupled with 3GB of DDR3 RAM. The Lenovo Vibe K4 Note has the heating issue, If you taking photos/Videos, playing games, Using data connection at least 20 mins, the phone easily heating up after that you can’t even use the phone for phone calls.
Finger Print Sensor is Fast and accurate. The front-facing speakers are big and powered by Dolby Atmos technology. The sound quality is distinctly better than on any of the budget smartphones we know but feels a lot better with headphones on. The smartphone packs 16GB internal storage and supports microSD cards (up to 128GB) and USB on-the-go.
We’ve done Antutu benchmark test and the result was surprising. The Lenovo Vibe K4 Note scored lesser than its predecessor Lenovo K3 note. The final score was only 36264 where Lenovo K3 note has 46301.
