Lenovo Z2 Plus

     Lenovo launched this smartphone on last October,  it was one of the most affordable smartphone to be powered by the snapdragon 820. It provides with a 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage capacity costs of nearly ₹.19,999,  making the smartphone best budget phone at its price. After 9 months on,  the Z2 Plus continues to be an attractive offer for the customers in the market. By comparison,  the Redmi Note 4 with the snapdragon 625 costs ₹.12,999. Many smartphones in this budget provides a metal construction and as there only so many ways to differentiate when you are using a metal unibody,  they start to look a like. That isn't the case with Z2 Plus. With a corning design and a fiberglass frame,  this smartphone certainly manages to standout. This Z2 Plus features a roll cage that sees key components mounted on a roll cage,  with the idea inspired by the company's ThinkPad range. Doing so gives the phone resistance to tumbles, and that's in line with what seen over last 9 months. Z2 Plus has seen its share of tumbles, and it came away without any damage.


     This smartphone features of a 2.15GHz Snapdragon 820,  4GB of RAM, 64GB storage,  13 megapixel ISOCELL camera with 4K video recording,  8MP front shooter,  Wi-Fi ac, USB-C, and a 3500mAh battery. The fact it is available for the equivalent of $175 makes it one of the best deals in this segment. The Z2 Plus works on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow out of the box, and the phone has picked up the Nougat update earlier this year. That's about it as fas far as platform updates go, as Lenovo has mentioned that it won't roll out the Android O update to the phone. This smartphone is based on ZUI (2.5.104),  and like any ROM designed for the Chinese market, there are a lot of customizations.


    Lenovo provided a 13MP Samsung ISOCELL imagin sensor in the Z2 Plus,  and the company's camera app has a lot of features. The interface itself looks out of place when seen against the rest of the UI, but you get easy options to switch between photo and video modes, togging the front and rear cameras, accessing the gallery,  enabling HDR, flash and more.