Lenovo K 860 Review

If Samsung had the Note, LG has Vu, now Lenovo also launched a follow-phablet (phone-tablet) to the market. Is the Lenovo K860 is equipped with quad-core processor, and feature complete. Want to know the test results?

DESIGN
Dimensions: 143.5 x 74.4 x 9.6 mm Weight: 193.5;
When another phablet embed physical buttons below the screen, the Lenovo K860 actually no physical buttons. Because all the functions that have been replaced by virtual touch keys typical 4 Android 4.0.

The fourth button is touch the menu, home, back and Recent Apps / task switcher. Lenovo K860 on the left, there are only a microUSB port. While the volume buttons are on the right body. Perched at the very top of the volume button and 3.5mm audio port.

Lenovo K860 rear casing using a coarse-textured plastic so phablet not easily escape from the grip. Although it comes with a dimension smaller than the Galaxy Note II , the Lenovo K860 were 10 grams heavier than the weight of the Note II.

SCREEN AND OS
Screen: HD-IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors; 720 x 1280 pixels, 5.0 inches (~ 294 ppi pixel density), Gorilla Glass; Multitouch; Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich with IdeaDesktop UI.
Lenovo K860 brings the screen HD IPS display with a diagonal of 5 inches. With this wide screen size, it is reasonable Lenovo K860 with protecting glass Gorilla Glass scratch. For its quality IPS screen is very sharp and bright, so that you can freely use even under the scorching sun though.

Runs on OS Android Ice Cream Sandwich Lenovo Lenovo polish the UI made ​​IdeaDesktop. With this interface allows free IdeaDesktop personalize the display starts from the theme, scene, until the icon on the menu page. The default IdeaDesktop provides about 30 icons decorating options that make your K860 menu icons look more fresh.

Interestingly, the interface is pinned at the K860 IdeaDesktop provide a separate version of the update option with a choice of OS updates.

HARDWARE
Chipset: Exynos 4412, CPU: Quad-core, 1.4GHz Cortex-A9, GPU: Mali 400MP; 1GB RAM, 8GB Storage (4GB User Available) Accelerometer, proximity, compass;
For a smooth process K860 armed with a quadcore processor with processor the same as that carried by the CPU Samsung Galaxy SIII. Moreover, supported by graphics support, Mali-400MP GPU, making it capable of running games like Asphalt HD with graphics.

Besides his memory supported by 1GB RAM combined with 8GB of storage space it has made ​​its performance in running various applications so impressive. As for the battery embedded, Lenovo chose to use the battery Li-Ion 2250 mAh which you can escape.

BENCHMARK
Benchmark Antutu: 15805; Quadrand Standard: 5221; NenaMark1: 60.1fps; NenaMark2: 53.1fps
With its hardware, PULSE measure performance using Antutu Benchmark. The result Lenovo K860 is capable of producing points at 15805. This makes it superior to the HTC One-X and only differs slightly with the Samsung Galaxy SIII.

While the performance of the Quadrant Standard test won the 5221 figures placing it above the HTC One-X.
To measure the performance of the graphics on the K860, PULSE uses Nena Mark 2 with the acquisition speed of 53.1fps. With such a high speed graphics, K860 is ranked second to the Samsung Galaxy SII T-Mobile.

MULTIMEDIA
Video: MP4, MKV, 3GP, M4V; Audio: AAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, FLAC, WAV;
Lenovo completes fitue audio with music player, called the Music Play. This application is able to play songs in a variety of popular formats complete with 11 equalizer options therein. To listen to the 3D effects and deep bass, you must plug the first earset. As for listening to FM radio, you must plug the first earset that also serves as an antenna

Unfortunately, despite having similar hardware specs to the Samsung Galaxy SIII, K860 apparently does not support the video format as the Samsung Galaxy SIII. To play a video, you can go to the gallery or use the default video player. When tested for playing MP4 video format with 1080p resolution PULSE get from YouTube, video player capable of playing with the K860 is very smooth.

CAMERA
Camera (main) 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels autofocus, Dual LED flash, (secondary) 2MP,; Geo-tagging, face detection, image stabilization, video: 1080p @ 30fps, LED video light; MP4/H.264/H. 263/WMV/DviX player
Lenovo K860 camera equip with a variety of settings such as scene mode, HDR mode, panorama, continuous shot, zoom, brightness, autofocus, resolution, ISO, white balance, special effects, timer, geotagging, shutter sound, LED Flash and auto review. To take a picture, you can use the virtual shutter button or button + volume that can serve as a physical shutter button.

In addition to the variety of settings available, to obtain a sharper image quality K860 camera you can also use to capture images in a professional mode and super mode. With super mode, the camera will intelligently identify and determine the range of environmental conditions existing parameters automatically

As for taking pictures indoors, its dual LED flash ensures that the resulting images look clear and natural. Interestingly, owned K860 LED flash can also be used to help the lighting while you're recording video. K860 video camera capable of recording images with a maximum resolution fullHD1080p. For recording images with a duration of 1 minute 2 seconds, the picture is saved in 3gp format has a file size of 220MB

INTERNET CONNECTION
Browser & Data: GPRS / EDGE, HTML5, Adobe Flash; Speed: HSDPA; Connection: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth with A2DP, microUSB v2.0 ; A-GPS support;
Support complete connection of Wi-Fi to 3G HSDPA is available, so you can explore the virtual world with high speed. With personalized features hot point, you can also share a connection from the phone to other devices such as laptops. Personal hot point provides the option to share wireless connection via tethering, Bluetooth and USB.

While default browser K860 is equipped with features such as history, accessibility, cache, cookies, and save the settings screen brightness, fonts and so on. K860 can also open a browser page 16 multitabs.

Turning to the data transfer options owned, K860 you can also use to share data through a wi-fi direct by Lenovo was named Wi-Fi Share. Other connectivity such as Bluetooth and microUSB data cable were also procured by Lenovo . Unfortunately there is no connection at K860 HDMI, DLNA and NFC.

Excellence

• 5-inch IPS HD display
• 1.4 GHz Quadcore processor and 1GB of RAM
• Interface IdeaDesktop 

Weakness 

• Do not have a HDMI port 
• Still OS Android v4.0.3 ICS 

CONCLUSION 
Lenovo K860 is an excellent prosuk Lenovo . Listed upscale features with a low price tag, will certainly attract the attention of users. Unfortunately for those cost-cutting, Lenovo was forced to eliminate features like HDMI, compass sensor and Lenovo Note that strangely even present at IdeaPhone series is priced at a cheaper price.