Lenovo A916 Reviews

HI

I am going to talking about Lenovo A916

this android smart phone announced on Nov 2014

so it is a new phone but its working is not good

it have only 1000 MB ram it is not for good working

and you do not open many application in one time on this phone if you do this your phone not working well.

and this smart phone have 8 GB storage it is not for store any more thing of your own like picture videos are moves.

its space is very low for store

it have low memory.

it have 13 megapixel camera of primary it is good but not very good quality camera of this phone

and the back camera is only 2 megapixel its very bad camera.

and it have 2500 mAh battery capacity it is not for long time to talking are watching any thing.

this mobile for 4G network but very slow working in internet.

it have operate 2 sim in one time

so I am not recommend for you and your friends

SO thank you my friend.

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Hi!

Lenovo A916 is worst phone!

#1. Sound Reception: This phone is average in sound reception and your reception degrades as the signal strength drops. It is very cheap phone and has very disappointing hardware. You cannot live with this phone if you're not in city.

#2. User Friendly: This's not at all user Friendly phone because it is only meant for China market and not for other countries. I do not know why at last moment Lenovo thought they could sell it in other countries also. All Google Play store application won't function in this phone. This includes popular applications like YouTube, Google Map or any other Nagivation App, I bought this for my old Grand Father only because it is very basic but said to me every now and then some China applications gets automatically installed and you have to remove it. Chinese developer at last moment made this phone for other countries and forget to put off some inbuilt programs that mess up constantly with your phone. Most worst things about this phone is that it's dual sim but you have to do a nonsense trick to enable your second sim. Lenovo India doesn't support issues related to this phone also. This is also a surprise.

If you are an Android application developer then even you will face issues in enabling the developer option in this phone because it is like the developer want to hide it.

#3. Style & Design: It has a deceiving design and you'll think it is a good phone but you'll be disappointed when you'll power on the phone. This phone display clearly shows you distortion in pixel like for example, If you are home screen and that has Application icon of messaging App, calling App, Camera App then all these 3 Apps will cast a vertical distortion across the screen and you'll recognize it almost immediately.

#4. Other Features: This phone has no special features and lacks the basic features too.

#5. Look & Feel: It's all plastic design. A chrome layer run on the edge is also the plastic. Back cover is textured and looks good and this makes it good to hold.

#6. Value for Money: It's not value for money because it has pathetic battery. It comes with a battery that says it is 2000 mAh but if you check with some application that can detect the hardware information then you will find it is only 1100 mAh for a sealed packed box. Battery will only last 1 year of normal usage and then you have to buy a new battery and new battery for this model are not manufactured now and you'll get something from a old stock and that battery will have even more less capacity then 11 mAh this makes it technically waste handset. You have to buy some compatible battery from china which costs more and are not branded and initially will have exact 2000 mAh capacity but that also will last for 1 year and changes sizes.

I strongly request you not to buy this phone.

Your Wifi Signals even when are normal you will expe

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I'm somewhat more pleased with my purchase than the other reviewer.

At first it was a little disappointing to find that the phone was Dual SIM but with only the capacity to pick one SIM or the other via a reboot. Any thoughts you had of running one number for work and the other for leisure, or managing an affair flew straight out of the window!

Fortunately, thanks to information received via Ash, one of the other reviewers, I was able to upgrade the software version to make the phone Dual SIM/Dual Standby, which is what most people thought it would be in the first place. Why Lenovo didn't go down this route at first is anyone's guess. Maybe it's an extra battery drain. I haven't really measured that aspect.

I think the problem lies with the fact that there's no'official' place you can get accurate data since the phone isn't intended for sale in the UK( in my experience, dual SIM jobs rarely are, after all, which network is going to sell you a phone that implies their own coverage is rubbish?)

Build-quality seems OK too for an all-plastic 5.5 screen phone and although it's no iPhone-beater, it passes my'creak test'( I try to twist it!).

Mine's working fine with a card from Three in the 4G slot and does indeed work in 4G when it can find it! The other slot, labelled 2G has my Giff-Gaff SIM on O2. The second slot really is 2G only - I've tested it with the Three SIM( 3 is a'data only' network) and it doesn't work.

Watch your prices. A perusal of e-bay will find examples as low as £103 but of course these will arrive by pigeon post from China some time next year after HM Customs have done their best to sit on it and charge you duty. I paid £145 from a firm in Bradford who also threw in a UK adapter, a gel case and an extra screen protector. It also means it'll be cheaper to send back if warranty work is needed.

It wouldn't be a good idea to make one of these your first Android phone as there are no English instructions whatsoever. The model isn't even listed on Lenovo's international web-site yet, and they don't market phones in the UK, so the local site's no use either. No headphones are included.

The screen is OK but nothing spectacular at 1280* 720, and at this size that's proportionally about the same d.p.i. as my larger 7 Nexus tablet to give you an idea.

It has good compatibility with Play Store, and only two apps that I've used in the past can't be used with it - don't worry, nothing important like Facebook!

All in all it's a lot of phone for the money.

It comes with a replaceable battery, so you won't have to junk the phone once the battery stops holding its charge.

Minor niggles - there does not appear to be any form of notification or charging LED but Lenovo are not alone here - it's just that I'd got used to an Xperia SP with a positive rainbow of the things!

It has an Antutu rating of over 27000, which is competent mid-range, and shows up for exactly it should, a Lenovo a916, so unlike the other reviewer, I don't think it's a'fake'. Cheap yes, fake, no.

When first delivered, the phone seemed to be in a'is it rooted or not?' limbo. Yes Superuser was installed but no, the Root Checker app reckoned it wasn't rooted. This was particularly annoying for me, as I wanted to run Three's InTouch app which enables calls and texts to and from your number even when your only signal is from wi-fi. Guess what? It wouldn't load on a'rooted' phone. The presence of the Superuser app and its directory structure was throwing it off he scent and being something that could only be deleted on a - you guessed it - rooted phone, meant I was stuck with it.

As luck would have it, the firmware upgrade has replaced this with an official un-doctored version, and now Three InTouch works. My build-number version of Kitkat 4.4.2 is listed as A916_ S1205_ 141013 which I take to be a version from 13th October 2014. It might be an idea to make sure your supplier can tell you how new your potential build-number is, if you really want the dual standby facility.

You still get a degree of'Sino-Centric' bloatware, but you're mainly free to disable this, although you can't un-install it. Every now and then a smidgin of Mandarin crops up, but it's nothing serious. In fact if you alter Contacts not to show country of caller, it doesn't show at all. It seems that you have to input the full+ 44 version of UK telephone numbers, otherwise your incoming calls and texts don't seem able to give you caller name ID.

Oh yes, and since the firmware upgrade, I seem to have lost the ability to'auto-rotate' jpegs and the like. Apps which force a landscape screen, like Netflix still work fine.

The only other minor cloud on the horizon is that it can't handle 4G in the 800 band( remember that, the one that's so close to Freeview it may need a filter?) This is a shame because the 800 band with its ability to penetrate as well as a TV signal was going to be the saviour of rural telephony( and broadband) . Still, how long does anyone keep a phone for these days - the idea of being'future-proof is rather old-fashioned in a cock-eyed kind of way!

AMENDED July 2015. Big problem - according to MalWareBytes, there are at least four nasties embedded in the Lenovo firmware, which under normal circumstances would be apps that can't be deleted, although disabling them should help. However, a more final solution is to'root' the phone although be warned this could invalidate your warranty if your phone locks up and therefore can't be unrooted before sending it for repair. Rooting with the Kingo Root utility on your PC( a free download), and connecting your phone to the PC making sure that you have USB Debugging turned on in Developer Options( ask me if you can't find this) was a doddle, almost a single click operation. Then you download the Titanium Back-Up app and delete the offending'bloatware' files. Simples - well fairly'simples' anyway

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