Lenovo K3 Note is able to best the OnePlus One and cost less than $150

While Lenovo K3 Notation was initially introduced to claiming Meizu's M1 Annotation, information technology appears that the latest benchmarking reports published by AnTuTu suggest that the affordable smartphone is able to concord its ain against the likes of Samsung'due south, HTC's and OnePlus' high-cease offerings. Given the fact that Lenovo K3 possesses a modicum toll tag of $145, the smartphone will non but be giving Meizu M1 Notation problems but consumers who intended to purchase the OnePlus One, Samsung Galaxy S5 or HTC One M8 volition quickly re-evaluate their purchasing decisions later viewing the latest benchmarking results of Lenovo K3 Note.

Lenovo K3 Note becomes the OnePlus One killer

According to a source, Lenovo K3 Notation was able to score in excess of 46,000 points on AnTuTu, which is an indication that the chipset powering the smartphone (MediaTek MT6752 SoC, an octa cadre processor powered by ARM'south Cortex A53, at a base frequency of 1.7 GHz) is a force to be reckoned with. Even though OnePlus 1 features a whole gigabyte of RAM more than the Lenovo K3 Notation (3 GB compared to 2 GB), the device is even so unable to overcome the capabilities of Lenovo'south affordable handset.

Benchmarking sources: ane, ii, 3, 4

In add-on to the octa-cadre processor, Lenovo K3 Note features ARM's Republic of mali-T760 GPU, and just to refresh your memory, information technology is the aforementioned mobile GPU nowadays inside Exynos 5433 variant of Galaxy Annotation 4, which means that one can await like, if non complete on par gaming operation when compared to the Note 4. Like to the remaining three handsets that were benchmarked, Lenovo's affordable smartphone radiates a resolution of 1080p, although the handset and OnePlus One are the simply two that characteristic a 5.five inch screen size (Galaxy S5 and 1 M8 feature a 5.one and five.0 inch screen size respectively).

For wireless connectivity purposes, a Category iv LTE modem coupled with an 802.xi n wireless adapter will permit users to stream the net comfortably. Although the device only comes packing with 16 GB of on-board storage, Lenovo has catered to consumers well by calculation a storage expansion slot with a limit of 32 GB. The company has also introduced a Teana version of Lenovo K3 Note. This particular model features better performing speakers, but will set the client back by 999 Yuan (which translates in to $161. The base of operations model carries a price tag of $145).

Regardless, even if the smartphone populace settles on purchasing the Teana version of Lenovo K3 Annotation, they will withal exist able to get more than performance out of the smartphone while paying less the one-half the price stamped on to OnePlus I. Given below are the pricing details of OnePlus One, which varies depending on which storage model the consumer purchases.

16 GB: $299
64 GB: $349

OnePlus is gearing up to release the successor of OnePlus 1, and if the Chinese startup is not able to price information technology aggressively as its predecessor, then it will be a no-brainer for consumers concerning which smartphone to buy.