Lenovo Trio Budget Phones of 2018: Lenovo S5, Lenovo K5 and K5 Play

Today Lenovo announced its new smartphones. Many people expect Lenovo S5, but the Chinese company released as many as three new phones – Lenovo K5 and K5 Play. All these phones are from budget category, because even the total price of all three phones together will hardly reach the price tag of modern flagships.

So, let’s make quick review of specifications and features of new Lenovo phones.

Lenovo S5 Review

The most expected budget phone from Lenovo in 2018 is Lenovo S5. It has full metal body, thin top and bottom bezels, 5.7-inch display, and 16-megapixel front camera with face recognation function.

On the back panel you can find horizontal dual camera (13 + 13 megapixels) and fingerprint reader. By the way, in addition to specifications and features of new smartphone, Lenovo published real sample photos from the main camera:

Lenovo S5: Performance

As for the hardware, new smartphone is powered by quad core chipset Snapdragon 625 with Adreno 506 graphics and some version of RAM and internal memory: 3GB/4GB RAM and 32GB/64 GB/128GB of storage.

There are no touch or physical buttons on display. The user interface ZUI offers to control the smartphone with the help of on-screen buttons, or by the gesture system on U-Touch screen. Probably, we should expect a control system similar to the one used in Meizu smartphones.

Lenovo S5 Unboxing Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Htt_m1OdE

Lenovo K5 and Lenovo K5 Play Review

These smartphones are positioned as younger brothers Lenovo S5. In general, the design of all three phones is almost the same. However, they are different inside. Lenovo K5 and K5 Play differ not only from S5, but also K5 and K5 Play are different between each other. Let me explain.

Lenovo K5 Play: Design

Lenovo K5 Play, like its older model, has two methods to unlock the smartphone: Face ID and fingerprint reader. The body is made from plastic with smooth curves at the edges. Also it is available in other colors: black, gold and blue.

Lenovo K5 Play: Performance

The smartphone is powered by Snapdragon 430 with a frequency of 1.4 GHz. Also there 2 or 3GB of RAM, while the internal memory is 16 or 32GB. The front camera compared to Lenovo S5 has 8 megapixels. The rear camera is dual with 13-megapixel and 2-megapixel sensors. It provides bokeh mode.

Lenovo K5: Performance

If Lenovo S5 and K5 Play are powered by Qualcomm chipsets, then Lenovo K5 has quad-core processor MediaTek MT6750 with a frequency of 1.5 GHz. The user interface also differs – here it is simplified ZUI 3.1 Lite, and not ZUI 3.7, as on previous devices.

The material and the shape of the body are identical to Lenovo K5 Play. However, the colors are different. Time you can choose from black, blue or gray.

Lenovo K5: Camera

The front panel of Lenovo K5 has 8-megapixel sensor, the same as Lenovo K5 Play. The rear camera is also dual – identical 13-megapixel main sensor, while the secondary camera has 5-megapixel sensor. This smartphone is available only in one version with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.

Lenovo S5, K5 and K5 Play: Release date and price

We know the prices and release days of all three new phones:

• You can buy Lenovo S5 starting from March 23. Its price will be $157 (3/32GB), $189 (3/64 GB) or $236 (4/128 GB)
• You can buy Lenovo K5 starting from April 10. Its price wil be $142 (3/32GB)
• You can buy Lenovo K5 Play starting from April 17. Its price will be $110

As you can see, Lenovo released good competitor to budget Chinese phones, such as Redmi 5 Plus, Huawei 7C, and others.

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Source: gsmarena