Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro (K920)

As we mentioned already, the Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro follows the design language of the K900 and rocks a metallic body. The brushed aluminium gives the device a touch of class, along with making it sturdy. However, you won’t notice all that if you see the device from the front. That’s because the front of the phone seems to be all black, and you might be mistaken that it has an edge-to-edge display, thanks to the extremely slim bezels.

Just a couple of years back, TV manufacturers were highlighting their HD ready and full HD televisions, and now mobile devices are certainly matching them with their resolution. It was just last year when smartphone brands were promoting 1080p display resolution of their offerings, and now the flagship devices are moving past that.

The Vibe Z2 Pro comes with the latest version of the Vibe UI v 2.0, which is based on Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Although the company hasn’t given an exact timeline, it would be updated to give you a sweet taste of the recently-announced Android Lollipop.

The device looks like a pretty attractive option for photography lovers as well, as Lenovo has mounted a 16-megapixel BSI sensor on the back of the Vibe Z2 Pro. It’s also one of the very few devices that boast of optical image stabilisation, which is a hardware component to automatically compensate for hand shake while clicking a picture. To shoot in dimly-lit environments, the Vibe Z2 Pro gets a dual-LED flash.

The Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro is a fully-loaded smartphone when it comes to its internals. It’s fuelled by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 801 chipset which offers four Krait cores running at 2.5GHz. The SoC also comes with Adreno 330 graphics processor clocked at 550MHz. Augmented by a 3GB of RAM, the hardware combination delivers a delightful experience on the smartphone. The phablet literally zips through screens and apps, without any trace of lag. The story continues even while playing graphics-intensive titles such as Deer Hunter 2014 and Riptide GP2. The games ran extremely smoothly and we didn’t encounter any kind of hang ups or frame drops.

Keeping in line with its gigantic proportions, the phone gets a monstrous battery to keep it running. It’s equipped with a non user-replaceable 4,000mAh Li-Po battery, which is definitely more than the current norm of battery capacities. However, it powers four times the number of pixels on a full HD display resulting in faster battery drain, which means you won’t get very impressive results when it comes to battery life. That said, it’s still impressive that the device manages to give you a company for an entire day and even more if you don't use battery-draining features such as gaming, cellular internet, GPS, etc. Under our standard battery test, where we played a 720p video on loop while turning off all wireless connections except the cellular network and both the brightness and volume set at 50 percent levels, the Vibe Z2 Pro clocked in a little more than 11 hours, which is fairly impressive.