Lenovo Vibe X S960 Reviews

Vibe X Lenovo smartphone has been present in our editorial desk . As is known thin smartphone design has strength in front of the camera and a 5MP resolution predicted very fit for users who like to do a selfie ( a picture of yourself ) . Not only that , this phone dipersenjatakan interesting specifications such as :

1.5GHz quad - core processor 6589T MTK
2GB RAM , 16GB storage ( 12.07 GB available )
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
5 IPS screen panel Full HD resolution with 440ppi with Corning Gorilla Glass 3
13MP rear camera auto - focus , front camera 5MP
thickness of only 6.9mm and weighs 121gram
2000mAh Li - Po battery
With the price of Rp . $ 450, is Lenovo Vibe X is able to meet the criteria as an upper middle -class phones capable ?

package Sales

In the sales package , Vibe X is equipped with :

Chief charger
Data cables
In -ear Headset (with earbuds )
Injector SIM tray
manual
warranty card

Impression Design and Materials

Very thin and light . That's the initial impression that appears when you grip Lenovo Vibe X. Of course , because its thickness is only 6.9 mm , with a weight of 121 grams , making it one 1080p screen smartphone most compact size. Of materials , including ordinary X vibe , nothing too special. But still better than the glossy plastic material , with a rear cover which has pores '' '' so that the phone becomes slippery when held . Moreover, the back cover silver color , quite interesting , as an alternative to black and white market. Although slim , but the use of the corners of the frame either side or rear cover fit the palm of your hand . Material at the bottom of the back cover reminds me of the Apple iPod Touch generation 1-4 , so be careful because the material seems easily scratched .

The laying of the lock / power on Lenovo Vibe X somewhat eccentric , on the left side ( most phones lock button layout on the right side or at the top ) . For a micro SIM card slot next to the volume buttons on the right of the phone , can be opened with a SIM card ejector . Unfortunately there is no micro SD slot in the smartphone with 16GB of storage . For ports , like most phones , there is a 3.5 mm audio jack located on the top , as well as a micro USB port at the bottom . Design camera recoils slightly outward , so be careful when putting the phone to the main camera facing down , because it could be scratched . This smartphone includes unibodi , rear cover can not be opened .

Screen quality

Lenovo Vibe X using a 5-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels , resulting in a pixel density of 440ppi . With the official Rp.4 , 5 million, the Vibe X is one of the Full HD screen smartphone which is the least expensive . The quality is unquestionable , the resulting color feast for the eyes with a bright and warm characteristics . You could say Full HD IPS display is located in the same level with the same screen smartphone from LG products , especially its color characteristics . White color looks natural course of type AMOLED display compared to its line of Galaxy S / Note . The black color also looks good and is very dark , though not black as AMOLED . Angle of view / viewing angle no problem , even from a narrow angle you can still see clearly .
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Which is quite unique from the screen Vibe X is the feature color balance setting , so the display can be customized . You can combine hue and saturation levels to achieve your desired state of the screen . Not too many settings , but it does not matter considering that not all phones have a setting like this . It also features Pocket - dialing Prevention Mode , which will prevent your phone lights up when placed in the bag . The trick is to detect the use of proximity sensors , to determine whether the phone is in a bag or not .


interface

Lenovo's latest series ( Vibe ) using Lenovo Smart User Interface , which permits control of the phone with one hand . For example , to turn on the screen you do not have to press the lock button located on the left , because the volume buttons on the right side can turn on the screen and then unlocked . Another example , when a call comes in you can answer with Vibe put X in your ear , without pressing any buttons . This is the smart features in Vibe X , call it :

Call and Message : Pocket Mode ( increasing the ringtone volume when the phone is bagged , Decrease volume tone ( reduces the ringtone volume when the phone is removed ) , the Smart Answer ( auto- answer incoming calls when the phone is held to the ear ) , Smart Call ( call the sender of a message if the phone is held to the ear ) and smart Dealer ( changing the size of the cell phone calls based on the angle , for easy one-handed typing )

Screen Feature : Face Recognition Unlock , unlock Screen off , Shake to Lock , Smart Standby ( phone screen stays on when staring )
Shortcuts and Other Features : Wide Touch , Side Key Feature ( using the volume button to turn on the display in standby )
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There are three pieces in the lockscreen shortcuts ie SMS , camera and unlock . For the notification bar , there are a couple of quick setting and access to the data connection shortcut to the settings menu . Lenovo Vibe X uses physical capacitive buttons ( Menu , Home and Back ) . If you hold the Menu button , will appear Recent Apps which also serves as the Task Manager . While holding the Home button will bring you to the Google Now feature .

As in the iOS platform , look no app drawer , so the homescreen as well serve as your access to explore the rest of the application . But the so-called Dragon 's homescreen , actually has three advance , namely the App Screen , Screen Widget and Screen Portal . Widgets screen displays the access to put widgets on the screen Vibe X. While Portal Screen allows you to find the news and read the news despite being in the offline state . Display Screen Portal using the boxes , such as the HTC BlinkFeed . There are several categories of news such as events , Entertainment , Sports and so on . If you feel wasteful power refresh this portal , you can set the interval for updates , up to 8 hours . Notifications that appear to exist any incoming news portals thankfully can be turned off .

Interface is brought Lenovo to Vibe X is indeed unique and innovative . Matter of aesthetics , application icons colorful , so depending on what taste you like it or not . Moreover, there are some interesting Themes you can choose according to taste . For performance issues , unfortunately Mediatek chipset 1.5 GHz quadcore used seems less qualified . Performance is frankly less smooth and still significantly below the performance of other devices with 1080p display , for example, Lenovo Vibe Z , which uses Snapdragon 800 .

input Text
Text input methods available that use only one type of keyboard that is Google . This time when you type nothing appears in the notification bar to adjust the input text you want to use , but there are periods and commas at the keyboard . There is a sliding gesture features through letters , such as Swype . In addition there are standard features such as voice typing , auto- capitalization , vibrate , sound , popup , show key settings , auto correct, suggestion . Typing through its own QWERTY keyboard is quite comfortable and can be done accurately and quickly in spite of the condition of the portrait , typing with one hand can still be done

camera
Like Super Camera on Lenovo K900 , features 13 megapixel camera on the Lenovo Vibe X is very complete as to setting split 3 , Basic , Advance and Other :

Basic : switch front - rear camera , flash , resolution , Scene ( Normal , night , portrait , etc. ) , adjust effect ( brightness level settings , exposure , contrast , saturation and sharpness ) , image quality , and Guidelines (the lines to help organize composition ) .
Advance : ISO settings , white balance , Stroscopic ( auto , 50Hz , 60Hz ) and activation of the touch control shot .
Other Settings : GPS location , camera sounds , animations and camera focus photo mode ( auto or continuous ) .

There's more existing arrangements , this time is a special effect . These effects serve live time , but certainly for some effects , camera resolution is reduced . These effects are not only many , but each has its own settings .

Lens Effect : Tilt Shift , Blur , Kaleidoscope , Mirror , Backlight and fisheye
Magic Effect : Glass , Thermal , Pencil , starburst , Wave , comic
Color effects : LOMO , Rural Poster , PopArt , etc. .

Settings and apps Super Camera interface is indeed somewhat complicated , to the point that no one can miss , like the one on the down arrow icon , on the right side of the screen . There Burst , Panorama , Night Portrait , HDR , and Low light . Extension as well as the Eraser ( remove moving objects ) , Group ( choose the best expression of each person in the group photo ) , GIF ( up to 800x600 QVGA resolution , framerate range between 9-18 fps depending on the resolution of the images ) .

The camera is quite good for outdoor conditions , or in the room with abundant light . But the picture is less sharp for size including a 13MP camera , as there is little watercolor effect . For low light or indoors , picture is still unclear and can be enjoyed , or good enough to be uploaded to social networking , but do not expect much because of the effects of watercolor increasingly felt here . To photograph the front camera , the quality is good with sharp resolution , not surprising since reaching 5MP resolution . Suppose equipped with autofocus , surely the result will be much sharper . There is a beauty effect with 7 levels , the authors look at the photo below , the skin looks white and smooth is the beauty effect level 7 , while for the photo underneath the effect on the non - disabled. More details, please click the following photos to enlarge and towards our Photobucket gallery . As for downloading , we provide the original photo files on this link .

While the video looks simpler than setting the camera settings . There are only standard features such as a flash light , white balance , resolution and so on ) . Although the result is a video recording .3 gp format , but the resulting video is excellent and very clear . Response of continuous autofocus was right on target and quite fast . The resulting video file has a size of 172MB for a duration of 1 minute video . Its 23500kbps bitrate , framerate 30fps .


Photo Gallery
Sought are not met , it turns out the name of the image viewer applications in Lenovo Vibe X is Seeit Gallery . This application divides photos by time and by making a folder ( album ) . It looks quite interesting with Livetile style boxes in Windows Phone . In addition , can also be based on Folder grouping , and portrait ( by utilizing face recognition ) and landscape orientation .
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Video players
Almost all formats included can be played by the dedicated video player . Such as mp4 , mkv , avi , and mov . Only wmv files can not be played . 60fps video was displayed properly and smoothly . Brightness and volume settings can be displayed by pressing the volume buttons . In addition , you can display the video as Pop - Up , so you can do other activities while watching the video . Unfortunately the default video application can not display the subtitle , both formats . Srt and other format .

Music Player
For hummed a song , it turns out Lenovo Vibe X applications rely on the default Google , Play Music . There are several categories such as Recent , Artists , Albums, Songs , Playlists , and Genres . You can like and dislike songs that there this phone . Of course you can also make their own playlist . There are some sound effects to choose from such as equalizer ( flat , folk , rock , pop , etc. ) and your own homemade . When wearing the headset you can set the Bass Boost '' effect '' and the 3D effect . Output sound via the headset is quite powerful , with a hefty bass kick , but the output is better towards the treble . Sound output via loudspeaker quite fast , but the quality is a bit shrill .

connectivity

triband GSM , HSDPA 2100
Wi - Fi 802.11 b / g / n , DLNA , Wi - Fi hotspot capability / tethering
Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP
MicroUSB port
GPS

web Browser

To browse the web , there are two that you can use the browser , Google Chrome and UC Browser . The browser provides the advantages of a night mode and use wallpapers and themes , is quite unique for the size of the browser . You can use two- finger gestures in the direction specified for closing tabs , switching tabs and opening new tabs . A maximum of tabs that can be opened up to 10 pieces only .
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Benchmark tests

Antutu : 15001 points
Quadrant Standard : 5557 points
Nenamark 2 : 28.4 fps
HTML5test.com : 400 out of 555 points ( UC Browser )
Multitouch Tester : maximum 5 touch
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Battery Life

Test Screenshot : within 165 minutes indicator decreased 52 percent
HD720p Video Playback Test : 5 hours
* turns on the internet using Wi -Fi , cellular non - active . 50 percent screen brightness level . For video , the maximum volume using the headset .

conclusion

With the price reached $450 , you get quite a lot of Lenovo Vibe X. Call it a 1080p display , 2GB of RAM , a design that is very thin and light , and the front camera is good . But the performance is somewhat less smooth into its own weaknesses , although relatively not to interfere with your activities in using this smartphone . For the price of $450, this smartphone will get a challenge from the LG Optimus G Pro , with the tag of USD .470 . Korean smartphone also uses a Full HD screen , but it was bigger ( 5.5 inches versus 5 inches ) as well as better computational capability ( 600 quad-core Snapdragon 1.5 GHz quadcore vs Mediatek ) . However Vibe X excels in design is much more compact , slim and lightweight ( 6.9 mm vs. 9.4 mm , 121 grams vs 172 grams ) as well as a higher quality camera . If you can spend a little more , you can get the Sony Xperia ZL (U.S. $ 5 million ) , fellow Full HD 5 -inch smartphone . In addition to G Pro and ZL , other devices that you can get the same price is the Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 (U.S. $ 450) and S4 Galaxy Mini (U.S. $ 480 ) , but the two are not equivalent spec compared to Lenovo Vibe Lenovo X. X Vibe is suitable for you who want a thin and light devices without sacrificing seabreg features , although it is still not for performance . Plus , the front camera is fun to be narcissistic .


excess

Full screen HD quality
Thin and light design
5MP front camera
Smart features that facilitate
The interface has a lot of customization options


shortage

Less smooth performance for its class
Battery life is less satisfactory
The interface is less intuitive and sometimes confusing
16GB of internal storage , no micro SD slot


parameters Assessment

Design : 8.8
Quality : 8
Features : 8.8
Performance : 7.0
Battery : 7.0
Price : 8.5
Overall Value : 8.017

Starting with the LG Nexus Review 5 , we use the latest valuation parameters for a total of 6 parameters . For close to the value stated in the review title is Overall Value , rounded to 1 decimal .