Lenovo A7000 (White, 8 GB)2 GB RAM

!!!This phone is not for Camera lovers !!! Though alternatives are available to overcome the issue. Got the phone within 2 days. Trust me I used it like anything for 1 week to test everything. Will edit my review on daily basis. Pros: 1. Screen clarity and sunlight legibility 9/10 2. Weight, build quality and design 8/10 3. Dolby Atmos audio quality with our own headset 9/10 4. Battery back up is great 5. Charging time is also good for 2900mAH... 1.5A adapter (trust me good quality) 6. USB cable (good quality) & screen guard provided 7. Vibe UI is attractive and useful. Internal security apps also good 8. Edit 23/4/15 - Received two back to back updates a.90+MB, b. 15+MB (not sure if this fixes notification area and heat issues) - Good lenovo is taking care of its customers. 9. Edit 25/4/15 - Wifi range is very good. My 5Mbps broadband is accessible through laptop hotspot mode even at 30-40 foot range with full strength. (I get 600Kbps when face towards router outside my house and 160kbps when I face opposite direction to the router) - 9/10 10. As everyone said I also complained on audio output and wrote a negative comment on it. Now I regret it, you have to enable Dolby feature and change the mode to MUSIC and configure(play with it) the graphic equalizer to set you mood. It will amplify the sound. Though it is not great but it's good. - 7.5/10 Cons: 1. Heats up easily on heavy use (After OTA updates, I didn't find this issue) 2. Phone freezes if u use it while copying any data from computer 3. Lags at times 4. Back cam is pathetic 6/10 (I'm not expecting DSLR for 9K, but at least should be able to beat the competitors). Front cam is good (7/10) 5. Edit 21/4/15 - Tested Camera quality with my friend's Moto X 1st gen, ROFL my Lenovo A7000 is far better than that.. LOL 5.1 Edit 23/4/15 - Outdoor pics are good. Indoor/low light pics are bad. Use Camera 360/Google camera for better result. 6. second SIM is 2G only 7. Edit 21/4/15 - Bugs with Notification area, it will freezes touch screen and volume buttons. Power button works (lock and unlock is the solution). - After OTA update I didn't find this 8. After two OTA updates, identified there is a significant battery drain issue. strange. 9. Youtube (updated version) doesn't support 1080p video streaming. It only supports 720p. 10. Though it claims 8GB ROM, most of the space eaten up by OS & inbuilt apps. You will be left hardly with 3.5GB space.

Got the phone on 03 May & using over 3 weeks. After going through a lots of review, i purchased this phone based on its specifications only as the reviews are mixed with good & bad comments both which are enough to puzzle anybody. Before all i say about the phone, i want to say two things to the negative reviewers:- 1) A high end smartphone needs proper maintenance & handling from the user. So to get optimum output in overall performance one need to know how to customize the phone according to their requirement (this phone is highly customizable). 2) In the Antutu benchmark this phone scores more than 43000, which is much higher than many high end & high budget phone priced over Rs. 20,000. Now i am sharing my experience with the phone:- Looks & Feel: This phone looks like a premium phone priced over Rs. 20,000 & its classy design will definitely attract anyone.Moreover this is very slim (8 mm) & light weighted phone (140 Gms only). Screen: It is having a PPI of 267 but the screen is very bright & crisp. I have seen many similar phones of Asus, Xiaomi, Samsung but its display is very charming & better than those. I have found not much difference in display quality with Samsung A7 super amoled to it. The screen is large but easy to hold in one hand. The screen comes with an auto brightness display option & Dragontail glass protection which gives you an anti scratch & anti damage protection. This protection is somewhere equivalent between Gorilla glass 2 & 3, i.e. better than Gorilla glass 2 but lower than Gorilla glass 3. Believe me its an amazing experience with the display of the phone. Android Lollypop OS: Its a nice experience with more new GUI & features than Kitkat OS. Performance : Its buttersmooth with a true octacore processor. RAM is always free around 1GB.I have installed more than 160 apps, but never seen a single lag even while more than 15 apps are running in the background. Gaming graphics & performance is awesome, & flawless. Camera : Rear camera is good in sunlight & at night with dual flash also. Dual flash is very powerful. Video recording is very nice even with flash light its very clear. Rear camera is very good for selfy & video calling purpose. I loved the feature of taking photo with voice command!!! Battery : Battery is very good. Usage are as follows: 4.5-5.0 hrs continuous gaming. or, 5.5-6.0 hrs continuous surfing/downloading on 3G. or, 7.0 hrs of HD movie playback. or, 14.0 hrs of music playback. or, approx 8.5 hrs of normal operation. It can easily stand up for 1.5 days with moderate use and 1 day of heavy use. Different power saving mode are there also like normal saving mode, intelligent saving mode & ultra saving mode. Charging time 2.0 to 2.5 hrs. Networks: one sim supports 4G/3G/2G & the other is 2G only. Both sim are micro sim. network reception is very good including wifi. Sound: Phone comes with one screen protector & one headphone. Truely saying headphone is not good enough for music lovers. But what i was amazed of is DOLBY ATMOS feature, its awesome. even if you configure with the out of the box headphone you can feel the difference!With a premium quality headset this feature will definitely amaze you. It is strongly recommended to purchase a good quality headset supported with the model. Video Quality : HD quality video in this phone is a truly priding experience. Flawless, smooth and detailing are very much enjoyable. Other remarkable features: 1) Cast screen 2)USB OTG 3)Removable battery 4)All the sensors except temperature & barometric sensor. 5)Many types of gesture 6)Call recording 7)SD card movable apps (I m using 32 GB strontium class 10 with out any flaw) 8) & many many more..... Regarding heating problem: any high end phone should have a little heating problem due to its high performance. This phone is not different, it heats a little bit but never more than 38 degree which is normal due to high usage of CPU. One fact i m saying, during usage of your laptop/desktop, CPU inside heats much more than this temperature.

Ordered the phone yesterday and received it today in the afternoon. Delivery took less than 24 hrs. Phone specs are awesome. It has Octa Core ARM Cortex A-53 clocked at 1.50 GHz along with Mali T760 GPU. Got an OTA update of 92 MB as soon as I received this phone (May be some bug fixes). Available storage is 3.5 GB (approx.) Battery temperature is between 30-35 degrees in normal usage. Will test how much it heat up while gaming. Available sensors: Accelerometer Proximity Luminosity (light sensor) Magnetometer (e-compass) Orientation Virtual Gyroscope sensor Rotation Vector Sensor Gravity Sensor Linear Acceleration Sensor Dolby is working with external speakers too however it can be best experienced with a headphone. Google play music is the default music player, UI is good, it's not taking lot of RAM as it used to be in previous versions. Available RAM is 1077 MB while no apps are running in background (except the processes :P) Rear Camera is not that great, front camera is excellent. Will update my review after using it for at least 7 days..