Lenovo is today - one of the world leaders in the manufacture and sale of smart phones. However, not every announcement excites her world. However, in the case of today's our hero - a smartphone Lenovo S90 - we can talk about the sensation, if not, then at least a very notable event.
This device is discussed literally all over the world. Because they do not see the obvious similarities with its Apple iPhone 6 is simply impossible. On the other hand, it is quite self-contained unit, and the similarity here, perhaps, not really intentional. Just so happens ...
Specifications Lenovo S90-A:
- Screen: 5 '' HD 1280x720, SuperAMOLED, 294 ppi
- Processor: quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8916, 1,2 GHz
- Graphics accelerator: Adreno 306 450 MHz
- Operating System: Android 4.4 KitKat
- RAM: 2 GB
- Built-in memory: 32 GB
- Memory card support: no
- Communication: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz || UMTS 900/1700/1900/2100 MHz || LTE: 1, 3, 7, 20
- SIM: DualSIM (microSIM x2)
- Wireless interfaces: Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC
- Navigation: GPS
- Cameras: Home - 13 megapixel PureCel (autofocus, flash), front - 8 megapixel BSI (fixed focus, flash)
- Sensors: accelerometer, proximity sensor, light sensor
- Battery: Li-Ion, 2300 mAh, nonremovable
- Dimensions: 146x71,7x6,9 mm
- Weight: 129 grams
Packaging, equipment
Lenovo S90 is packed in a cardboard box. Its front part - light, rear - bright red. Front nothing but logos, model names and images of the smartphone in two ways. Behind plotted picture showing the main chip device and white font listed specifications.
With the device lying on a red substrate, the box includes: charger, micro-USB cable for charging and syncing, wired headset (without the complete set of replaceable ear pads), protective film to the screen, clear plastic bumper, warranty card, instruction manual and clip to extract the frames with SIM-cards.
Appearance
Lenovo S90 similarity to the iPhone 6 lies in the use of similar materials on the body, as well as some design elements: the sidewall of both devices are almost equally rounded and screw flaunt "star" slots.Aluminum rear panel is divided bottom strip of radioprovodyaschego material. At the top end - a small, but noticeable enough piece of plastic, different color from the body.
Most of the front side - almost 66% - occupies a five-inch display. Top next to the speaker is LED-flash (left) and front camera (right), which is located next to the light sensor.
Bottom-placed touch keys <Menu>, <Home> and <Back> made in the corporate style Lenovo. The left side is a double slot microSIM, which opens a special clip.
On the right side of the center - the power button, and a little higher - volume button.
At the upper end of the left - 3.5 mm audio jack. The bottom end is most similar to the iPhone 6: Two slotted screw-stars, micro-USB connector directly in the center, but a double perforated speaker grilles on either side of him.
Backside quite stingy with the details: in addition to the band bottom, here logo emblazoned Lenovo, or in the upper left corner of the camera lens is placed, which does not act, but rather slightly sunk into the body. Near - LED-flash.
Ergonomics
Dimensions Lenovo S90 dictated diagonal display. Curiously, the ratio of the area of the screen to the area of the smartphone the iPhone 6 and Lenovo S90 same - 65.8%. But it also means that the device from Lenovo larger, and the frame around the screen wide enough by today's standards.
The device fits the hand comfortably, but one-handed operation is problematic, much easier to use both. Location few buttons will be convenient for both lefties and righties.
Screen
In the Lenovo S90 stands five inches diagonal display and HD-resolution of 1280x720 pixels. Density - 294 ppi. Resolution that is enough - the picture is not falling point, the images appear in one piece, as well as color transitions.
Matrix display is made by technology Super AMOLED. Safety glass has an oleophobic coating.
The display is bright, colors are sometimes too aggressive, and white color is filled up in a little blue.Lenovo is not provided a setting of color profiles, so you have to be content with what we have.
The screen has great viewing angles and high contrast, but the margin of brightness could be a little higher. This does not mean that you can not use the device in direct sunlight, but still a little more headroom in this situation would be useful.
In short, the display causes positive emotions, but especially red and green color on it does not look very natural, which is typical for screens Super AMOLED.
Interface
S90 is running Android 4.4 KitKat wrapper with firm Lenovo Launcher. Its main feature - the absence of a folder with all applications: the installed programs are on the desktop. Also survived funny trick with the change of wallpaper on the lock screen simple swipe to the left and change the desktop background - it needs to pull the screen from the top left corner down.
At the bottom of the lock screen are icons of the handset, messages and camera: if you pull one of them up, download the appropriate application.
We can say that already "out of the box» Lenovo S90 is ready to work: in addition to the package Lenovo DOit and almost complete set of Google services are installed ivi.ru, Guvera Music, UC Browser, WPS Office, Evernote, Visa Qiwi Wallet, the main applications of Yandex, and in the "Social Network" are clients Facebook, Twitter and Skype. Not without entertainment - here are pre trial versions of six games and store GameStore.
Notification bar looks familiar. There are no two screens with individual notifications and icon settings, all in one window. There are five icons quick settings. They can reveal - and see 14 icons and one icon <More>, which launches a menu where you can determine the order of the settings and even replace some of them.
Dialer interface looks nice and familiar. The keyboard is also standard for the operating system Android.
It is worth noting the setting item <Special>. There is a smart unlock. For example, a smart phone can be unlocked by swiping your finger on the bottom of the screen on the touch-sensitive buttons, and you can start the camera or browser Chrome, write on the screen or O V, respectively.
Also has a "shake-lock" - blocking smartphone shaking. The screen can turn the volume buttons, as well as access to major labels in one touch. Smart device has two additional modes include: "in your pocket" - in it automatically increases the volume, as well as "in the hands" when on a device, taken in hand, the volume of the music is reduced.
The device is in
In the Lenovo S90 is set processor Qualcomm MSM8916 Snapdragon 410 quad-core Cortex A53 and 1.2 GHz. Responsible for the graphics accelerator Adreno 306 with a frequency of 450 MHz. The smartphone has a 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal. The memory card slot is not provided.
Work tables are turned over quickly, smooth animation, does easily "digest" the most loaded pages and any scaling.
Small hang observed in the Gallery to view photos: first images open in low quality, and then loaded sectors for a maximum of a second.
Interactive episodic game from Telltale Games - Walking Dead: Season 2 - looks and plays beautifully.
Nothing prevents to get Om Nom get in the game Cut The Rope 2 treasured candy. The picture, however, is too colorful due to the fact that the game has a lot of green and red.
Restless EP in the game "Despicable Me" running around the world, full of bananas, very, very fast, and most importantly - without brakes.
Arcade racing game Asphalt 8 very pretty, and also works without any brakes, except, of course, automobiles.
Dead Trigger 2 also looks and plays great.
Video in Full HD resolution unit loses as freely from the Internet and from your smartphone.
After listening to a complete music headphones, we can safely say that this headset is not just for talking. Here sound good mids, good - high, and basses these "gag" too good shake. Sorry no complete replacement ear pads, but against a common set of rich it will be unquestionable nitpicking.
Camera
In the Lenovo S90 is worth 13 MP sensor PureCel with autofocus and LED-flash. The camera can be run from the desktop or from the lock screen, pulling the appropriate icon. In the menu the aspect ratio (16: 9, 4: 3 or 1: 1), white balance, scene mode, the value of ISO, and metering method (or center-averaged). You can enable the display of auxiliary lines that divide the image into four or nine pieces. It is also possible to use a logarithmic spiral.
Separately, you can activate the display of the reticle level, and include the suppression of flicker.
In addition to the usual shooting there is a panorama mode (only works in portrait orientation), as well as shooting with effects. Right on the main screen, you can enable or disable the flash and activate HDR.
Color reproduction is very good, but is in no hurry to raise the automatic ISO, shutter speeds from here. So often the camera does not forgive even a small hand-shake blurring the images. Also, it is sometimes not focused properly, especially in bright light counter (which is expected). HDR mode does not always save the picture, and if flinch hand, the image will be spoiled with a guarantee. But if the camera is fixed, the HDR-image version is at least clearer.
To achieve high-quality images at night difficult. Smudges, lack of field - a common problem (due to too long exposure). A feeling that the sensor categorically not enough light (apparently affects limitation ISO) to make anything like a sharp image.
A few words about the front camera, which is very high quality. It uses a 8 megapixel sensor with BSI. Unfortunately, the front camera fixed focus, but there is a LED-flash that illuminates the face in the dark.
Day shooting outdoors.
Day shooting with disabled and enabled HDR.
Night Shot outdoors.
Close-up shot without flash and with flash.
Shooting indoors.
Shooting text without flash.
Panorama shooting.
Shooting front camera without flash and with flash.
Video shooting outdoors and indoors.
Wireless interfaces
Lenovo S90 - smartphone with the ability to use two SIM-cards. Then one slot into two microSIM card.Both slots support 2G and 3G, as can the main work in the LTE Cat. 4. Wi-Fi module supports all major protocols, except for 802.11ac. The device is installed Bluetooth module version 4.0, NFC is missing.
For geolocation meets GPS-module. For the machine, officially delivered to Russia, it is logical to expect support and GLONASS - alas, here it is not. GPS module works quite stable, and searching for satellites takes about 20-25 seconds. Signal keeps confidently, and even in the room enough to place the device near the window so that it is up to 10 satellites.
Work Offline
In the Lenovo S90 worth nonremovable battery capacity of 2300 mAh. Can not say that this is a big battery: the company has a similar smart phone with battery at 4000 mAh. With an average brightness of the display unit is home to around eight hours at low load: social networks, instant messengers and internet - a total of about one and a half hours; Using the Camera - about 20 minutes, 10-15 minutes of calls. If you are an active user and going to watch videos, play games, listen to music, and actively communicate using instant messengers and sots.seti, you have to attend to the acquisition of an external battery or recharge a smartphone during the day.
One hour of viewing HD-video at maximum brightness in flight mode will spend only 12% of the charge. This means that the battery is fully charged, you can expect to view up to 8 hours of video in HD-resolution.
One hour of play at full brightness uses about 18% of the battery charge. So you can count on more than 5 hours of gaming.
Full charging time is approximately 2 hours. Comes with an adapter with a current of 1 A.
Results
Lenovo S90-A - smartphone, which will inevitably be compared to the iPhone 6. But the undeniable similarity is still two different device. S90 - not the flagship, and the middle-price segment. The battery could be poobёmistee and quality shooting suit not all, and the processor should not the most powerful. But - very rich equipment with a good headset, solid metal body and a good front camera eight megapixel camera with LED-flash. It is very nice to look at and feel the unit with its own identity and performance, which will suffice for the work, web-surfing, and many games.
The smartphone has appeared in the Russian market in February 2015. This device is the middle price segment, which stands today almost as much as before cost flagships. Sadly, similar to the price tags have to get used to.
Pros:
- housing made of metal, good build quality;
- rich equipment, a good headset is included.
Cons:
- uneven quality images of the main chamber;
- no slot for memory cards;
- The battery is not very high capacity.
