Lenovo, one of the largest smartphone selling companies in Indian market, offers power packed devices at affordable price range. Lenovo phones have great build quality and live up to our expectations. They have an additional bonus as some of the phones are available in the offline market as well. Today, we will review Lenovo A7010 which is a great budget-friendly phone from Lenovo.

Design and Display

Lenovo A7010 is built on metal frame and measures 153.6 x 76.5 x 9.2mm. Lenovo A7010 has the same size as that of Lenovo vibe X3.  It weighs 160 grams and will be available in two colors black and white.

Lenovo A7010–  Big Features, Small Price

Lenovo A7010 features a 5.5 inches(13.97 cm) display with Full High Definition display (FHD). It has a pixel density of 401pixels per inch and a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. The pixel density is amazing with 401 PPI. It uses IPS LCD type display and is protected by corning Gorilla Glass v3, Scratch-resistant glass. The display quality is overall nice.The screen to body ratio is 70.81 %. It comes with the Smart Brightness mode which can help sunlight legibility.There is also a high touch sensitivity mode which you can activate in winters and use the phone with gloves on.

The area above the display has the 5 MP front camera. There is also a proximity sensor, ambient light sensor and LED flash. This device lacks front LED flash. The area below the display has three capacitive keys with back key on the right. These keys are not backlit. It lacks physical home button.

The hardware button i.e.volume and power buttons are present on the right side of the device. The back cover of this device is removable;hence the dual SIM slot and SD card slot is located below the back cover of the device. It supports 3.5 mm jack and microUSB 2.0.

On the back side, there is a 13MP primary camera and dual color LED flash next to it. There is also a fingerprint sensor below the camera.

Performance:

Lenovo A7010 is expected to bepowered by Octa core, 1.5 GHz, Cortex A53 processor. It runs on 2 GB RAM and uses MediaTek MT6753 chipset. Graphics are handled byMali-T720 MP3 GPU.

Software:

Lenovo A7010 willnot run on the latest Android Nougat but will run on Android Lollipop (5.1) enhanced with its own VIBE UI on top.The UI is similar to all Lenovo phones. The app drawer is absentlike all Lenovo phones and you can disable some preinstalled apps to free the RAM.

Camera:

Lenovo A7010 is equipped with a 13MP rear-facing camera with dual-colorLED flash.  This phone features usual photo enhancing modes like exposure compensation, ISO control, Geo-tagging, HDR, face detection, panorama etc. This phone comes with phase detection autofocus but there is no laser auto focus in this phone. The images have the maximum resolution of 4128 x 3096 Pixels. You can record videos at 1920×1080 @ 30 fps with this phone.

The front camera, on the other hand, isa5MP front camera. There is no LED flash for the front camera.

Storage:

Lenovo A7010 has an internal memory of 32 GBwhich is expandable but only up to 32 GB. This is one major drawback of the phone if you like more storage in your phone.

Battery:

Lenovo A7010 is powered by 3,300mAh li-polymer battery. This phone doesn’t support fast charging and USB TYPE C port but uses microUSB port.

Connectivity:

Lenovo A7010 is a dual SIM Phone which supports 4G in only one SIM.  The second SIM only supports 2G GSM 1800 / 1900 / 850 / 900 MHz. There are usual connectivity features like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (4.0), GPS with A- GPS.

Price:

Lenovo A7010 price in India is anticipated to be Rs10,990.

The verdict:

Lenovo A7010 is expected to be in the segment of budget smart phones. We are quite impressed by the specifications of this phone at this budget.  The display is bright and the battery is good. The fingerprint sensor is always on and works very fast. The chipset delivers fast performance. This phone will face tough competition from Xiaomi phones. And to keep updated with the latest phones entering the market, you can tune into 91mobiles.com.