Lenovo Golden Warrior A8

Overview

A New Member In Golden Warrior Series Of Lenovo

Design

Lenovo is a Chinese multinational company that manufactures and sells electronic gadgets. Its headquarters are located in Beijing, China and North Carolina, United States. It was founded in 1984 as Legend by Liu Chuanzhi and named as Lenovo in 2004. The company has announced the Golden Warrior A8, a smartphone with 4G capabilities in July, 2014. The handset comes in a pack with a battery, charger, USB cable, earphone, user manual and warranty card. Let's take a look at its specifications.

Design and Display

As far as designing part is concerned, the Golden Warrior A8 is crafted with great precision from superior quality materials. The handset not only looks appealing but even feels amazing to hold. This compact shaped device is slim and lightweight too. The front of phone is dominated by a 5.0-inches HD capacitive display of 1280x720 pixels resolution, beneath which are the three touch buttons for options, home and back. It has a multi-touch input method and the ability to display 16 Million colors.

Hardware and Software

The Golden Warrior A8 comes equipped with a super-fast Octa-core 1.7 GHz Cortex-A7 processor, MediaTek MT6592 chip-set and Mali-450 MP4 GPU. It has a massive 2 GB RAM and 16 GB internal memory. Users can add up to another 64 GB with the help of a micro SD card. It runs on the Android version 4.4.2 KitKat operating system which provides a better user interface.

Telephony and Messaging

This dual SIM device operates on 2G, 3G and 4G network frequencies. The phone has the capability to store a huge number of contacts to its phonebook memory. The messaging and emailing facilities available for the device includes SMS, MMS, email, push mail and IM.

Camera

The Golden Warrior A8 supports dual cameras with 13 MP in the rear and 5 MP on the front. The camera features include the LED flash, auto-focus, Geo-tagging, face recognition, high dynamic range (HDR), smile detection and panorama. The front-facing camera enables the users to take high resolution selfies along with video conferencing.

Multimedia

The music player gives clear and crisp sound whether you use a pair of headsets or a loudspeaker. The phone also has a stereo FM so that one can tune in to their favorite radio station and listen to songs anytime, anywhere. The built in HTML browser can be used to download all kinds of apps from the Android market or Play store. Videos and games looks exceptionally good and interesting.

Connectivity and Battery

On the connectivity front, the phone offers GPRS, EDGE, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, micro USB v2.0, Bluetooth v3.0 with EDR. It also has GPS and A-GPS capabilities for improved navigation. Backing the device is an Lithium-ion battery which assures a good battery life.

Shades and Price

The Golden Warrior A8 is available in four good looking shades: White, Black, Pink and Gold. The approximate price of this smartphone is $180 (INR 11,000).