Lenovo has been aggressively releasing smartphones this year, specially in the budget segment. One look at the Google smartphone search trends for 2015 shows that more than one Lenovo smartphone made it to the most searched phones list of 2015. Lenovo has certainly come into its own this year in the smartphone segment. Motorola, which is also owned by Lenovo, has been taking care of the high end segment of the market with the Moto X Play and the Moto X Style, and the Moto X Force which is expected to come next month.
So towards the end of the year, Lenovo has decided to release the Vibe S1 which was first launched at IFA in Berlin. The Vibe is becoming a sub-series within the Lenovo smartphone portfolio with three other smartphones – Vibe Shot, Vibe P1 and Vibe P1m also released this year. So here is a detailed review of the Lenovo Vibe S1
If the A-series phones from Lenovo had a very functional and somewhat boring design, the aesthetics on the Lenovo Vibe S1 will certainly take you by surprise, in a pleasant way. The Vibe S1 comes with a curved back design and has a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 cover on the front and rear, along with an aluminum frame. The phone comes in two colour variants – Pearl white and Midnight Blue of which the latter certainly looks more impressive.
The phone has the volume rocker and power/standby buttons on the right hand side, the 3.5mm audio jack is present on the top, on the left hand side you have the dual SIM card slot. This is a hybrid slot, so you can either use two SIM cards or one SIM and microSD card. The micro USB charging and data transfer port is present on the base and is surrounded by speaker grilles section on either side. But one needs to note that there is only one speaker on the right hand side. The rear side just has the camera section located in the top centre with the LED flash unit below it.
The phone measures around 7.8mm thick on its thinner edges and weighs a light 132 grams. The rear side does tend to collect fingerprint smudges and you will need to be constantly cleaning it, specially since it is a reflective surface and smudges are easily visible. Thanks to the 5-inch form factor, one handed use is not so difficult, but you have to be careful as the phone does tend to get slippery.
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Features: 7.5/10
The Lenovo Vibe S1 features a MediaTek MT6752 chipset which houses an octa-core processor clocked at 1.7GHz and a Mali T760 GPU. This is paired with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage out of which around 25GB is usable space. You can also expand the storage by adding in a microSD card of up to 128GB. The phone runs Android 5.0 Lollipop along with the Lenovo VibeUI running atop it. We will get into the details of the VibeUI in the software section.
The phone comes with a dual nano SIM card slot which is hybrid in nature, so with the second slot you will have to select between a SIM card or expanding storage. In terms of other connectivity options, you have Wi-fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS with A-GPS and so on. There is a non-removable 2420mAh battery.
There is a 13MP camera on the rear side and an 8MP camera in the front. Rather there are two front-facing cameras – one 8MP and another 2MP, making this the first phone in the world with a dual front-facing camera. We will talk in detail about this under the camera section.
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Software: 7/10
Lenovo Vibe S1 comes with Lenovo’s proprietary Vibe UI atop the Android 5.0 Lollipop OS. Now Vibe UI is known to be a bit on the heavier side thanks to the pre-loaded apps that come with the phone. But thanks to the MediaTek MT6752 chipset, along with 3GB of RAM, things do run fine. Some of the preloaded apps include ShareIt, SyncIt, CloneIt, Theme Centre, Lenovo Companion, Guvera Music, Navigate and some gaming apps among others. As compared to the boat load of apps we’ve seen with the Asus ZenUI, the VibeUI certainly has more useful apps. You cannot uninstall the Lenovo apps though.
So towards the end of the year, Lenovo has decided to release the Vibe S1 which was first launched at IFA in Berlin. The Vibe is becoming a sub-series within the Lenovo smartphone portfolio with three other smartphones – Vibe Shot, Vibe P1 and Vibe P1m also released this year. So here is a detailed review of the Lenovo Vibe S1
If the A-series phones from Lenovo had a very functional and somewhat boring design, the aesthetics on the Lenovo Vibe S1 will certainly take you by surprise, in a pleasant way. The Vibe S1 comes with a curved back design and has a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 cover on the front and rear, along with an aluminum frame. The phone comes in two colour variants – Pearl white and Midnight Blue of which the latter certainly looks more impressive.
The phone has the volume rocker and power/standby buttons on the right hand side, the 3.5mm audio jack is present on the top, on the left hand side you have the dual SIM card slot. This is a hybrid slot, so you can either use two SIM cards or one SIM and microSD card. The micro USB charging and data transfer port is present on the base and is surrounded by speaker grilles section on either side. But one needs to note that there is only one speaker on the right hand side. The rear side just has the camera section located in the top centre with the LED flash unit below it.
The phone measures around 7.8mm thick on its thinner edges and weighs a light 132 grams. The rear side does tend to collect fingerprint smudges and you will need to be constantly cleaning it, specially since it is a reflective surface and smudges are easily visible. Thanks to the 5-inch form factor, one handed use is not so difficult, but you have to be careful as the phone does tend to get slippery.
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Features: 7.5/10
The Lenovo Vibe S1 features a MediaTek MT6752 chipset which houses an octa-core processor clocked at 1.7GHz and a Mali T760 GPU. This is paired with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage out of which around 25GB is usable space. You can also expand the storage by adding in a microSD card of up to 128GB. The phone runs Android 5.0 Lollipop along with the Lenovo VibeUI running atop it. We will get into the details of the VibeUI in the software section.
The phone comes with a dual nano SIM card slot which is hybrid in nature, so with the second slot you will have to select between a SIM card or expanding storage. In terms of other connectivity options, you have Wi-fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS with A-GPS and so on. There is a non-removable 2420mAh battery.
There is a 13MP camera on the rear side and an 8MP camera in the front. Rather there are two front-facing cameras – one 8MP and another 2MP, making this the first phone in the world with a dual front-facing camera. We will talk in detail about this under the camera section.
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Software: 7/10
Lenovo Vibe S1 comes with Lenovo’s proprietary Vibe UI atop the Android 5.0 Lollipop OS. Now Vibe UI is known to be a bit on the heavier side thanks to the pre-loaded apps that come with the phone. But thanks to the MediaTek MT6752 chipset, along with 3GB of RAM, things do run fine. Some of the preloaded apps include ShareIt, SyncIt, CloneIt, Theme Centre, Lenovo Companion, Guvera Music, Navigate and some gaming apps among others. As compared to the boat load of apps we’ve seen with the Asus ZenUI, the VibeUI certainly has more useful apps. You cannot uninstall the Lenovo apps though.
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