Smartphone "Lenovo S650": specifications, tuning, battery, reviews. Lenovo S650

Modern smartphones surprise with their performance and capabilities. However, sometimes for a comfortable performance of the necessary tasks, it is quite enough a time-tested model that can not be attributed to novelties. It is such a gadget is "Lenovo S650", the characteristics of which we will consider in more detail.

Equipment

The smartphone is packed by the manufacturer in a cardboard box, on which there is practically no information. Most likely, this is the expression of Lenovo's minimalist style, which underlines that this device is still the "younger brother" of the flagship Lenovo Vibe X.

For most buyers, it can be important that, in addition to the charger, USB cable and documents, the manufacturer took care of having a wired headset in the starting set. Although it looks simple and, frankly, cheap, the sound has turned out to be quite pleasant and can appeal to most unassuming music lovers.

Appearance

The smartphone received a 4.7-inch display, but it looks pretty large. This is due to the wide scope around the screen, which can not be called a minus, but some users may not like them. Despite such dimensions, the gadget is pleasantly in the hand and does not slip out of it.

The case is completely made of plastic, sometimes matte, and in some places with a metallized coating. The color of the case is light, pleasant, and with proper illumination, the effect of golden shine is also created. The device is collected qualitatively, there are no backlashes and no creaks. In general, the smartphone creates the impression of a well thought out model, albeit from the budget segment. This sign can boast of many smartphones Lenovo, the prices of which remain within 7-8 thousand rubles.

The back cover is removable, under it there are slots for SIM and a memory card. The Lenovo S650 battery is removable, which has recently become a rarity in most smartphones.

According to some reviews, the strength of the body parts is quite high, and even with inaccurate use, the gadget will lose its attractive appearance not soon. The display has an oleophobic coating, which protects it from fingerprints that might appear during operation and interfere with the comfortable viewing of photos and videos.

Display

We touched on the topic of coverage a bit, and now let's talk about the matrix. It, perhaps, can be safely called the weak side of this device, since it has a low resolution for the modern device, namely 960x540 pixels. With such parameters with a diagonal of 4.7 inches, pixelation becomes noticeable even to the naked eye, which causes the picture to get an unpleasant torn "ladder" structure, and the "Lenovo C650" screen becomes more minus than plus.

However, the rest of the display showed good results. Good color rendering, without emphasizing any specific color, rather large viewing angles, sufficient brightness margin for using the device even in sunny weather - all this can partly compensate for the low resolution of the display.

The sensor was able to perceive up to 5 touches at the same time, which is an average indicator for state employees. But at the same time, there are absolutely no errors and sticking out, that's why it can be confidently called good and qualitative.

"Iron" characteristics

As the main processor is the SoC-platform MediaTek MT6582, known for most budget models of 2014-2015. It is a single-chip chip, on which there is a processor with four cores capable of developing a frequency of up to 1.3 GHz, and a video accelerator Mali-450MP2. The crystal is made by the process technology of 28 nanometers, which provides quite low power consumption and low heating of the device when working with resource-intensive processes.

The processor works in conjunction with 1 GB of RAM. This is a bit by modern standards, but it is enough for comfortable work with two or three lightweight applications at the same time. In order to maximally unload the RAM, the system is optimized by the manufacturer, as a result of which the user is always available about 500 MB, the rest is occupied by system applications. It is worth noting that in some Lenovo models with the same amount of RAM there is a problem with the operation, since only a fifth of the RAM remains accessible to the user. Here, "Lenovo S650", the characteristics of which often do not differ from the problematic models, undoubtedly wins.

The benchmark Antutu benchmark shows a result of 17,000 rating units, which is comparable to the flagships of the previous years, like the HTC One X and the Samsung Galaxy S3, although the Lenovo C650's characteristics seem less significant at first glance.

Communication capabilities of the smartphone

At the present time, a smartphone without 4G support is sometimes considered too outdated, but do not forget that the higher the communication standard, the greater the battery charge. In this model, 4G support is not available, but all frequencies and 3G standards are fully implemented, including HSUPA and HSDPA.

SIM cards are of a standard size, they do not need to be trimmed or changed to start using the smartphone. When calls are traditionally one of them becomes inactive, since the device is equipped with only one radio module.

In addition to the radio module of the cellular network, the Lenovo C650 phone is equipped with Bluetooth modules of generation 4.0, as well as Wi-Fi with the b / g / n protocol support. If necessary, the smartphone can be turned into a portable Wi-Fi router in several stages. In advance, ask your operator if additional funds will be charged for this, as recently some companies have introduced such a practice.

The smartphone also does without a GPS module. The signal strength of the satellites is quite confident even in cloudy weather. When testing in most cases, the cold start took about 1 minute, the hot one took less than half a minute, or even a few seconds.

Memory

The internal non-volatile memory of the smartphone is not particularly pleased with its size. It is a built-in 8GB flash drive. Of it about 3 GB are occupied by system files. In total, a user from the box is available slightly less than 5 GB of disk space.

To expand it, you can use microSD memory cards up to 32 GB, preferably 10 class, in order to ensure maximum performance. According to reviews of users who tried to use memory cards of a larger size, the smartphone simply refuses to see them, so when buying it is worth counting on the manufacturer's declared limits. However, comparing prices for Lenovo smartphones, this model wins by the price / quality ratio, and it is worth considering - perhaps this amount of memory will be quite enough.

Battery

The standard battery, supplied with the smartphone, received a rather ordinary volume of 2000 mAh. This is a small indicator in the modern world of battery-demanding gadgets, but for its modest characteristics this battery is more than enough.

In the kit with the smartphone comes a charger, capable of giving a power of up to 1 A. With these parameters, it takes about 2 hours to fully charge the battery.

According to feedback, a single charge is enough for an active use of the smartphone all day, this is noticed by users commenting on the topic of Lenovo S650 4PDA. However, at the same time, it will have to be connected to the power supply every night, which means that the life of the charging / discharging cycles will be used in about 2.5 years.

Main and front cameras

The Lenovo S650 4PDA smartphone was developed at a time when software image interpolation was still out of fashion, so the claimed photo resolution corresponds to the resolution of the camera array. For the main camera it is 8 Mp, with the frontal situation being more sad - its indicator is only 0.3 Mp, so you can forget about selfi. Considering the "Lenovo C650" model, the characteristics of the cameras are quite acceptable for its price segment.

The camera is quite decent for its level, with good lighting, the images are saturated and clear. However, using the automatic setting of parameters during shooting, watch the resulting result. Sometimes the software mistakes with the choice of the mode, due to which colors can be distorted, and in the photo there are lights or, conversely, too dark areas.

The front camera can be used only for conversations using video messengers, but no more. Do not make her pictures: they can not be qualitative.

Set up your smartphone

After removing from the box, the smartphone should be set up. In this, this model is no different from other Android-devices. She has on board a set of service applications from Google, so it is recommended that you immediately get yourself an account for comfortable use of the smartphone and data synchronization. Otherwise, the "Lenovo C650" setting is intuitive. The smartphone has hints about the interface functions.

conclusions

The smartphone was nice and pleasant to use. It will suit those for whom the connection is in the first place, and not entertainment. Of the minuses, we can note only the processor overheating at very long, heavy loads not provided for this iron, weak display resolution, and the already starting obsolete version of Android. If this is not important for you, you can safely buy this model - otherwise it will not let you down. In addition, if necessary, repairs "Lenovo S650" is quite cheap due to low prices for components, so a randomly shattered display will not be a tragedy.