Lenovo S580 Review: Best choice in mid-range segment

Lenovo Smartphones are quite popular in the mid-range market segment, but with good specification. Lenovo is gradually improving the quality of their products with a wide range of unique smartphone devices.

One of the products are highly appreciated in the mid-range segment is Lenovo S580 smartphone. This Lenovo Smartphone is quite remarkable when compared to the other smartphones in the same segment. Here we have a Lenovo S580 review to provide all basic information about the product and it would be useful information to our readers to choose their new smartphone during the 2015.

Design:

Lenovo S580 carries a square design, quite similar to the Lenovo Vibe X2 style. Although the phone has not a monolithic design, but owned luxury design, trendy and modern style perfect for any low-cost device. With its quite compact dimensions 139.8 x 69.9 x 8.1 mm, weight only 129g, users can easily manipulate the phone with one hand.

The four corners and edges are rounded looking good, key placement is quite consistent with the volume keys and power button located on the right side and headphone jack and a micro USB port on is located on the top edge of the phone.

The front has a 5 inch cover with a tough glass, stretch speaker with sensor, front camera and Lenovo logo. The bottom has a three touch buttons Back, Home and Menu operate the phone easily.

The most prominent part of the phone is a back panel surrounding with metal frame, rear camera convex is very small compared to the back so the device. The phone has been designed with high quality plastic material and resists of fingerprints so it’s quite handy to hold.

Overall design of Lenovo S580 is not too special, but balanced and good quality material, fit for people who want to own a phone with affordable price with a sleek design and comfortable to use.

Display:

Lenovo S580 has a 5-inch LCD screen with HD resolution of 720×1280 pixels, displays high quality images with sharp, bright and natural colors. You can fully enjoy high quality movies or stunning 3D games.

Furthermore, an additional advantage in that the screen of Lenovo S580 with an IPS panel for high brightness, sharp images as well as the viewing angle is also quite good, can be considered as a dominant device in the same price segment.

The basic experience such as view photos, watch movies or play games on this screen can be great and navigation buttons are located at the bottom part of the screen so we have extra space for use.

Interface:

Lenovo S580 will be installed with Android 4.3 platform and custom interface called Lenovo Vibe UI. However, users can upgrade this device to Android 4.4.2 via OTA update. Only one thing is still unclear that Lenovo will continue to update Android 5.0 for this product or not.

Back to Vibe UI interface on the S580, here, all the applications are brought to the main screen with colorful icons and brilliant design. It is very fancy but not difficult to use it. The Lenovo S580 is also comes with a pre-installed games with a separate warehouse and also a number of applications too.

Camera:

The Lenovo S580 smartphone for the mid-range segment, but it has a pretty good camera. Rear camera of 8-megapixels with autofocus, face detection and supports LED flash. You’ll also be able to take a selfie with 2-megapixels front camera, capable of video calling, of course, its quality will not as well as the high-end smartphone devices.

The camera interface is quite simple with fully customizable camera switch, turn off the flash or change the resolution of the image, almost same to compare with Android devices. And of course, this Lenovo cell phone does not have any special photography features.

However, the quality of the pictures from the Lenovo S580 camera which is quite good, natural colors in full light conditions. But when in low light conditions, the pictures little noisy.

Performance:

Lenovo S580 is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor, Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 with 1GB RAM. In addition, the phone has 8GB of internal memory and support micro-SD card slot for expanding the memory capacity of up to 32GB.

If you like to play games on the phone, Lenovo S580 can run most of the game like some high-graphics 3D game. Of course with the above configuration, some high-end games can lag on the S580, but after all, this is the still stable performance in this price segment.

The Lenovo mobile phones also capable for heavy multitasking without any lag or load. The application loading process is quite fast. You absolutely can watch high quality movies without any lag.

Battery:

With a battery capacity of 2.150 mAh, Lenovo S580 can meet all basic needs such as web surfing and entertainment. But if you constantly play 3D games or use multiple applications or camera, you should carry a spare battery or charger to continuous use. The phone also supports Dual SIM cards and for connectivity includes 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Final line:

The Lenovo S580 smartphone is a pretty good product in mid-range smartphone segment. With advantages such as good design, stable performance, large display, attractive design and good specifications were enough to choose this product.

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