Lenovo A859

Overview

Mid-Range Android Smartphone sports 5-inch Screen

Lenovo A859 is one of the latest dual SIM dual standby smartphone from Lenovo which was announced in December 2013 and will be released soon worldwide. It comes in a box with a charger, USB cable, headset, user guide and a replaceable Li-Po 2250mAh battery with a standby time of up to 11.5 days and a talk time of up to 10 hours. It has a height of 142mm, a width of 72.5mm and a thickness of 9.2mm as its dimensions along with a weight of 163gms and runs on 2G(GSM 900/1800/1900MHz or GSM 850/1800/1900MHz) and 3G(HSDPA 900/2100MHz or WCDMA 850/1900MHz) network frequencies. It is available in White and Black shades at a price of US$ 219(INR 13,700 approximately).

Lenovo A859 has a 5.0-inch, capacitive and multi-touch, IPS LCD touchscreen display with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels, 16M color depth and 294ppi pixel density. It has a RAM of 1GB along with a internal memory of 8GB which can be further expanded up to 32GB via a microSD memory card. It is an Android v4.2, Jelly Bean OS based smartphone with a quad-core 1.3GHz Cortex A7 processor, a MediaTek 6582 chipset, a Mali 400 GPU and a fair number of sensors such as light, proximity, accelerometer, compass and gravitation along with a lot of other features which includes a lot of games like Asphalt 7, Danger Dash, Green Farm 3, Little Big City and Texas Poker, many preloaded applications such as Accuweather, Evernote, Go Input Suite, Lenovo SHAREit, Lenovo SYNCit, Lenovo SECUREit, Lenovo Launcher and Lenovo Mobile Assistant, a loudspeaker, a 3.5mm audio jack, HTML browser, FM radio, GPS with A-GPS support, Java via MIDP emulator, a video and an audio player with a long list of supported formats, an organizer, an image/video editor, a document viewer, voice memo/dial, tethering, computer and OTA sync and many more.

Lenovo A859 has also got a 8.0MP rear camera with a resolution of 3264x2448 pixels, digital zoom, auto focus, LED flash, geo-tagging, HDR, panoramic scene and can even record videos of high-definition. It also has a 1.6MP front camera with fixed-focus and digital zoom for video calling. For messaging, it has got SMS, MMS, E-mail, Push mail, IM, RSS feeds and integrated social networking sites along with predictive text input. For connectivity, it has a GPRS and EDGE, WLAN feature with Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and hotspot, Bluetooth 3.0 HS with A2DP, a v2.0 micro USB port and 3G speeds of HSDPA 21.1Mbps and HSUPA 5.76Mbps.