Thin and light: a review of Lenovo Vibe X (S960)

Firm Lenovo relatively recently become a global player of the smartphone market, but it has already take place in the top manufacturers. While most of the sales come from the Chinese market, but also the European share of the company is growing at a good pace. The reason is simple – it’s attractive prices for high-quality smart phones.

Overview Lenovo Vibe X sets it apart from its competitors not only cost but also reduced thickness, combined with light weight. Consider in more detail design and technical features of winning new products from Lenovo.
 Appearance

Lenovo Vibe X is very thin – just 6.9 mm. A large 5-inch screen visually narrows it even stronger. Sharp corners in the design no prevail rounding. The figure of 121 grams of weight achieved through the use of plastic materials, which complements the overall impression of compactness. The case itself is made of textured plastic, cleverly disguised as aluminum. Want to touch that surface again and again.

Body looks and feels monolithic, high-quality assembly pleases. The volume buttons and the inclusion of traditionally located on the side of the housing. MicroUSB-connector is on the bottom and slot microSIM – on the right side of the device.

Elements are successful, management is not satisfactory: the smartphone easy to use, it keeps stable in the hand and weighs a little. Unusual location of the keys can be called “Back” and “Home”, which are the right and left respectively.

Speed

The hardware of the device has the following specifications:

• MediaTek MT6589T, 4 core 1.5 GHz Cortex A7;


• graphics accelerator PowerVR SGX544; 


• 2 GB of RAM; 


• internal memory of 32 GB, with no extension. 

If you are a fan of games on your smartphone, the Lenovo Vibe X S960 – not the best option. But if your needs are not part of the “heavy” application, to perform common tasks platform is fine.

Fears that the smartphone will not pull high resolution screen, in vain. There are only barely noticeable slowdown, but in the pros platform can write its energy efficiency.

The device operates in the system Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, with shell Lenovo Smart UI, which was developed separately and contains some nice software solutions.
Screen

Smartphone Lenovo Vibe X is endowed with a 5-inch IPS-display with FHD-resolution and pixel density of 441 dpi. There is a protection glass Gorilla Glass 3 and oleophobic coating. Light sensor bad helps adjust the screen brightness.

Sensitive sensor supports 5x multi-touch. Display good color rendition, and is colorful and bright sunshine: the screen is not “blind” and slightly glare.

Display Lenovo Vibe X reaches almost to the best representatives of the segment. He is a bit lacking saturation and contrast, angled color subtly fade and distorted, but overall it’s a full IPS.
Camera

The main module of the camera can shoot 13 ​​megapixel resolution. This camera Sony Exmor RS, equipped with LED-flash, autofocus and «back-illuminated sensor» – backlight sensor, which allows for better shooting in low light conditions. Successfully running macro. HDR, Panorama and other modes also have, in general, the interface can be called luxurious.

The front camera is endowed with unusually high resolution (5 MP), photo mode can recognize a face and apply a smoothing filter imperfections. Between “crossbows” module is used for video.

Autonomy

Battery indicators, albeit with a small capacity of 2000 mAh, quite tolerable. Manufacturer claimed opportunities 16 hours of continuous talk time or 12 days standby.

In reality, with an average load, smart discharged about a day. In game mode, the battery will last 4-5 hours, and when used only as a “dialer” and live for two days. Excellent result is charging less than three hours to the maximum level.

Specially designed “Power Manager” offers several power-saving modes. With it, you can find out which applications spends the greatest amount of energy, and, depending on the selected mode and the number of processes, the program is capable enough to accurately calculate the time remaining until full discharge.

as weak, but significantly higher performance.
Output 

Thus, in a line of smartphones from Lenovo appeared affordable image model Lenovo Vibe X. Indicators of weight and thickness and does exclusive, because of what is true, suffered battery. Performance of the device is low, but the best ergonomics with this large display, perhaps, to be found. This is a situation where before buying a smartphone just need to twist in your hands to realize how it suits you.

Thin and light: a review of Lenovo Vibe X (S960)