Lenovo K3 Note review: Note for less

9 October, 2015
It was not that long ago that you could hardly get a feature phone for $150, and these days this amount gets you a ridiculously good smartphone like the Lenovo K3 Note. It’s an affordable large-screen phablet with little compromise on the important stuff.

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  • Anonymous
  • 2Th
  • 30 Oct 2015

I don't know how you browse the web but my k3 note gives me an average of 8 hrs on 4g with chrome.

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    • Arooba-d-genius
    • vbR
    • 29 Oct 2015

    Excellent review. Highly methodical in analysing the mobile.
    Will you be able to do research on signal strength & radiation issue?

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      • balu
      • rKP
      • 28 Oct 2015

      This phone is very heating
      Then don't buying in this phone

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        • Joy
        • uNV
        • 27 Oct 2015

        Akku, 18 Oct 2015I was using this phone for last four month. I don't have an... moreIs it TVout & OTA supported

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          • AnonD-459338
          • rK9
          • 25 Oct 2015

          When I will get next update for lenovo k3 note?

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            • Raaj
            • rAg
            • 25 Oct 2015

            Is the available gorilla glass to lenovo k3 note?

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              • sid
              • vGU
              • 21 Oct 2015

              instead of releasing better update lenovo have launched lenovo k3 note music just same as micromax did in last few years., using mobile from past 2 months having some issues ," mobile heating, battery drainage fast, recharging time 10 hours for complete charging via original charger and 14 hrs from USB , UI not good but 'every thing me' launcher satisfies it, RAM space only 768 MB usable out of 2 GB, no good update yet which make phone more buggy, apps dont work after transferring to sd card neither update" so pls update if i have said anything wrong or have missed something...: )

                [deleted post]Well said.7

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                  • AnonD-455850
                  • rJe
                  • 18 Oct 2015

                  Using Lenovo for about a month. Got no problem in playing games n using apps independently. It hangs sometimes during autoupdates or during downloads as lookout always starts scanning each data.During that time games calling n using apps becomes lil difficult. My main issue with k3 note is heating problem.

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                    • Akku
                    • rAT
                    • 18 Oct 2015

                    I was using this phone for last four month. I don't have any difficulty for using the phone. I like the phone the very best. This is the phone which I use very comfortably after my iPhone. They reviews and comments are fake. Don't try to cheat any one like this

                      I have used lenovo A6000 plus and LG G3 D855 16 GB model with the Sony MDR XB70AP earphones. Both phones have dolby chipset. But the sound quality is worst in lenovo A6000 plus and the sound quality is rocking in LG G3 and also in Samsung note 2 which does not even have dolby chipset. Lenovo is cheating its customers. Damn it.

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                        • shivam
                        • rAV
                        • 17 Oct 2015

                        To all my brothers., i m currently using dis phn and want 2 make u all aware so tht u all dnt get cheatd by d features of dis phn it is d worst phone u cn buy ever in dis range the features r fake though being 2 gb only 1 gb is available and u can never enjoy playing heavy graphic game which other phones of 2 gb ram can smoothly play or smetym even 1 gb phones too.,.,d only bst thing is dolby sound thats it .,dis phn lags .,it hangs too., and u will b surprised to know that a7000 is far more bttr in prfrmnce than dis as it shows no problem in any aspect go fr ght phn its d bst undr 10K .,.,

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                          • Hku
                          • 16 Oct 2015

                          Iam not happy with this phone because Samsung phone of 3yrs old model have also very fine touchability since I purchase this phone from last 3 months it works well in 1st month but after it my back sensor as well as right sight alphabet nd apps are not open according to my requirement.so I suggest other that its not good to buy.

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                            • uvA
                            • 16 Oct 2015

                            U should never buy this phone it crashes freezes it lags horribly while playing games

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                              • QJi
                              • 15 Oct 2015

                              AnonD-443557, 10 Oct 2015Gsmarena : Nice review but I think you reviewed a chinese u... moreYes i can confirm that the review is of Chinese unit with model K50-t5 where as the Indian version comes with model no K50a40 and ROW roms. Chinese and ROW roms has some difference, Chinese roms are more feature rich and has a lot of Chinese contents which cannot be used out of China. Yes ROW roms has some performance issues e.g. 2-3 keys in keyboard doesn't respond occasionally, screen freezing issue is also there.

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                                • AnonD-96940
                                • QJi
                                • 15 Oct 2015

                                Sumit, 09 Oct 2015Excellent review, but it seems you've skipped the audio qua... moreI have been using the K3 Note for close to 3 months and i can confirm that the Dolby Atmos does make a significant difference.

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                                  • QJi
                                  • 15 Oct 2015

                                  AnonD-287664, 09 Oct 2015Main disadvantages No other storage options What is the... moreperhaps the reviewer is referring to more internal memory as in this case it is 16GB.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • Hkt
                                    • 15 Oct 2015

                                    Dear GSM team,
                                    Kindly give review to Panasonic mobiles too.

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                                      • uum
                                      • 13 Oct 2015

                                      AnonD-443557, 10 Oct 2015Gsmarena : Nice review but I think you reviewed a chinese u... moreyes the review unit was most probably the Chinese version. Although it caught me by surprise that the otherwise spot-on review team did not mention that.

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                                        • AnonD-4254
                                        • U@9
                                        • 12 Oct 2015

                                        GSMArena staff, any specific reason for skipping the audio quality test?

                                        My friend has one, and it did not have too bad audio, compared to my own Redmi 2.