Lenovo Ideaphone A690 Review

Lenovo Ideaphone A690 Review - Lenovo launched a smartphone at a cheap price. The smartphone is Lenovo Ideaphone A690. Comes with dual SIM, what about performance?

Design

Dimension: 124x65x11 mm and weight: 134 grams. On the side of the phone uses aluminum so it looks elegant. At each corner of the A690 body are similar to the typical arch by the body of Nexus 4.

Lenovo Ideaphone A690 Review

At the front there is a touch-sensitive buttons that Option, Menu and Back. This smartphone is very comfortable when you are holding, because in the back using plastic and coated contoured layers. Logo of Lenovo is located on the back is very interesting.

Display & OS

Screen: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors; Size: 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches (~ 233 ppi pixel density), Multitouch. Lenovo Ideaphone A690 has a big screen. The screen has good quality. When you are under the sun, you can still use the phone comfortably.

Lenovo Ideaphone A690 Review

Unfortunately, Lenovo install Android Gingerbread OS. To the user interface, this smartphone using ideadesktop. Go to the homescreen, you will get 3 instant access to the home, running task and a recent task. On the menu, divided into 3 slide sheet (can continue to grow with increasing applications you entered) with a range of 4x4 icon grid composed.

Processor and Memory

To support the performance, the Lenovo Ideaphone A690 uses Chipset: MTK 6575; CPU: 1 GHz ARMv7 processor; GPU: PowerVR SGX531; Memory: 512 MB ​​RAM, 512 MB ​​ROM, microSD up to 32 GB.

Lenovo Ideaphone A690 Review

Comes with a single core processor, the A690 has the standard capabilities. RAM is given only 512MB. So, you can't do a variety of activities at the same time.

Camera

Main camera: 3.1 MP (2048x1536 pixels). Features: face detection, anti-flicker, smile shot, color effects, image properties, burst shot. Video: 480p; Panorama; Video player: MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player. Offered at a cheap price, this smartphone uses good camera resolution. Unfortunately, the camera isn't accompanied by a flash lamp. But it's not a big problem, because it's a low-end smartphone.

The most interesting feature on the Lenovo Ideaphone A690, is a panorama mode that is similar in Xperia phones. With the elongated form of photographs, such as bringing together multiple photos into a unified whole. When you want to save the image, the camera takes about 4 seconds to save the photos to the gallery.

Lenovo Ideaphone A690 Review

Dual SIM

Network (2G) GSM 900/1800/1900 - SIM 1 and SIM 2; (3G) HSDPA 2100. Lenovo A690 is not able to read dual SIM. SIM 1 supports WCDMA (3G) and SIM 2 for 2G networks. To make a phone call, SIM option 1 and 2 there is a row of buttons on the virtual numeric. As for the use of mobile data, you can do manual settings in Settings> SIM Management> Data Connection> Select the SIM you want to use to surf> ok. Dual SIM capabilities in Lenovo A690 is a dual on, no dual stand-by.

Connectivity

Data: GPRS/EDGE. Speed: HSDPA/HSUPA; WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot. Connection: Bluetooth; microUSB v2.0; Java MIDP. You can connect the smartphone to the internet using HSDPA network and WiFi connections. The default browser can run stable and you can open the 8 tabs at once.

Meanwhile, for the purposes of data transfer there is Bluetooth and USB MicroUSB V2.o. Inter-device pairing process went smoothly and fast data transfer.

Conclusion

Lenovo Ideaphone A690 is a low-end smartphone. Although that case, this smartphone has a variety of interesting applications and features. Comes with Android Gingerbread, this smartphone also has dual SIM capabilities.


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