Vibe Shot: Lenovo's first camera phone in action
Hi Geektimes! I have a weakness: I really like good photo equipment, including camera phones. At one time, I regularly tested new products for specialized (and not so) resources, but recently I have been working more in other areas. However, sincere interest is not so easy to kill - I try not to miss good photo gadgets. This happened with the first Lenovo camera phone - it was announced back in the spring during MWC, and the first samples reached Russia only now. The guys from the Russian office of Lenovo kindly agreed to give me a Vibe Shot for a week, and in return I promised them that I would share my impressions with you here. So we will combine business with, I hope, useful.
Caution, under the cut a lot of photos.
My personal favorite among all camera phones is the Nokia 808 PureView, released back in 2012. The Finns (oh, then, after all, no one even knew about the upcoming ups and downs with Microsoft!) Turned out an incredibly terrible smartphone with a surprisingly cool camera. In fact, it was a camera with a built-in phone, and not vice versa: 38 megapixels on a huge matrix of smartphones (1 / 1.2 inches) made it possible to do something like this just by pulling the gadget out of your pocket and pressing the button:
But, of course, I could not become a popular model with Symbian no longer needed by anyone, a screen with a modest resolution of 360x680 pixels, a bunch of complicated shooting settings and by no means the most humane price. Design also left much to be desired. Yes, and for Nokia itself at that time difficult times came, which ended we all know how. In general, I shot the 808th elegantly, but I didn’t like ordinary people, leaving only the observers of equipment and photographers keeping the optics battery and a couple of SLR / system cameras at home on the shelf.
Today, in order to take good pictures on a smartphone, you can simply buy any flagship - this will be enough in most cases. However, none of them has a photomodule with a matrix as large as the Nokia 808 and so many settings. It came to the point that devices were becoming very successful, in which the adjustment of shooting parameters was not provided at all. Of course, I do not mean the aspect ratio of the picture and the on / off of the flash, but the white balance, ISO, exposure compensation, etc. Buyers are important in the simplicity of obtaining an acceptable result, and not the abundance of adjustable parameters. However, simplicity still should not imply a complete lack of opportunities to improve the result, skillfully twisting a couple of sliders. That's just Lenovo Vibe Shot and confirms this.
But I'll start with the cover, because the design of the smartphone is an important thing. In the case of Vibe Shot, the wow factor from the appearance even goes to one of the first places, because the gadget looks, in my opinion, very cool. In terms of convenience, there are no questions to the rectangular shape, I was able to verify this even with the example of the “puffed” Vibe X2, which in my hand lies about the same way, that is, it is quite convenient. At the same time, the Vibe Shot has a completely metal base, and the back panel is decorated with Gorilla Glass 3. As a result, if you look at the device from the front, there are no surprises - the almost spilled Vibe X2. But if you look at the back, you can easily confuse a smartphone with a compact camera. And not anyhow, but very beautiful and neat. No kidding: in a week, as many as three people in the subway openly looked at the gadget, trying to understand
By the way, with Vibe Shot compact cameras, another funny detail is related: this is a small mount for a wrist strap, which is usually included in the package of photo-dust boxes. I don’t know if such an accessory will be in the box with the smartphone. I brought the pre-production sample just in an envelope, but I think it is very appropriate. Yet when the glass is not only in the front, but also in the back, the device becomes slippery. During conversations or, say, correspondence in FB Messenger, there are no problems, but when shooting, you need to hold the device horizontally (there are no fans of vertical photos and videos from smartphones, right?), And so that your fingers do not get into the frame. So the additional safety net will definitely not become superfluous.
The tray for two SIM cards and the tray for microSD are removed using a paper clip, the volume buttons and the power button are on the right, the headphone jack is on top, and the speaker under one of the grilles on the bottom end is nothing supernatural. But there are two additional elements on the case - a physical camera activation button, which at the same time acts as an electronic shutter button and a tricky switch that puts camera control in automatic or manual mode.
In addition to such a strict but stylish black Vibe Shot, a model with a red frame around the perimeter of the case and a completely white smartphone are also available. Judging by the photos, they are also no less cute. And on a white gadget, fingerprints will also not be noticeable.
Unfortunately, I do not have a colorimeter, but subjective visual impressions indicate that the screen in Vibe Shot is excellent. The diagonal of the display is 5 inches, the resolution is 1920 × 1080 pixels, the density is high - more than 400 ppi. In general, all this looks like the same IPS matrix that is used in Vibe X2. The brightness margin here is simply huge, and I often reduced the backlight intensity manually because I don’t like the work of the automatic level, and at a maximum in the evening, not even on the street, looking at the display is difficult - my eyes get tired very much. At the same time, there is no problem with hypersensitivity of the sensors - X2 sometimes reacted almost to pressing with the foot, being in the pants pocket.
The color rendition is correct, obviously somewhere very close to sRGB coverage, which is good for a gadget with a bias towards photography. The viewing angles are wide, with a strong tilt of the device, only the depth of black is lost and the shades of white change a little, but this feature does not pull at all for a significant drawback in my eyes. Well, you can work with a smartphone even under the prohibitively bright summer sun, although, of course, in the shade of a tree or any building, typing is more comfortable. A good anti-glare filter together with high brightness combine perfectly, of course, there is an oleophobic coating.
Before I get to the most interesting part, I’ll say a few words about the hardware of the gadget. It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset with eight cores: four operate at a frequency of 1.1 GHz and the same number at 1.7 GHz. It is built on the 64-bit Cortex A53 architecture, supports big.LITTLE technology, which greatly contributes to saving battery power, and is equipped with an integrated Adreno 405 GPU. can work with DirectX 11.2, OpenGL ES3.0 and even displays with a resolution of 2560x1400 pixels. By the way, why absolutely no monsters are built into smartphones that are at the moment of battery power, I definitely do not understand. Snapdragon 615 is also able to decode H.265 in hardware, it has an integrated LTE Cat 4 modem and it sees Wi-Fi 802.11ac networks. If I don’t confuse anything, even devices from China should quietly catch LTE in the tenacious networks of our favorite mobile operators. But, of course, no gadget with such an origin will have any free support in Lenovo services.
In a word, Snapdragon 615 is a solid such chipset, which, with all its advantages, in practice does not turn the phone into a hot iron. Well, at least in the case of Vibe Shot. And, most importantly, it is supplemented not by one, not two, but immediately by three gigabytes of RAM. All this Lenovo smartphone is more than enough to solve any standard tasks and not slow down. In 3D Mark Ice Storm Extreme, the gadget scores almost 5400 points, in AnTuTu - 35 000 points, and in Epic Citadel it shows 47.1 FPS. I really can hardly imagine someone to whom all this will not be enough.
The amount of internal memory is also very decent - 32 GB. Support for microSD-cards is provided, all the same 615th Qualcomm is able to recognize cards with 128 GB on board, if you do not suffocate a toad to buy this.
But I will not write about software. Geektimes already had a rather detailed article about the features of Lenovo's proprietary shell. In Vibe Shot, it has changed a little since the description, because here already immediately 5.1 by default, but nothing radical happened.
And so we got to the most interesting. First, a little theory. The physical size of the camera matrix in Vibe Shot remains unknown, but it is clearly not large. But it’s known that the photomodule is based on a backlit matrix with a resolution of 16 MP. The aperture of the lens is F2.2, from the outside it is protected not just by a glass, but by a reliable sapphire crystal. I know from experience that this is really a cool thing that reduces the likelihood of scratches at times. Unusually, the maximum resolution when shooting can be achieved only by making frames with an aspect ratio of 16: 9. If you change the aspect ratio to 4: 2 or 3: 2, then the picture will be smaller.
And now I propose to return to the very lever that I mentioned at the beginning. It has two positions: Auto and Pro. Accordingly, the camera also has two operating modes - almost completely automatic, without settings, and as if professional, with the ability to change some shooting parameters. If you start the camera by long pressing the shutter button, it will be activated in the mode in which the switch is turned.
Auto mode, in my opinion, is not remarkable for anything - the camera does everything by itself. If you go deep into the menu, you can get to the ISO and white balance settings.
But the Pro mode is much more interesting, it helps to unleash the capabilities of the Vibe Shot camera one hundred percent.
Firstly, the most important thing is at hand here: the interface allows you to very quickly select the ISO value (100, 200, 400, 800, 1600), change the white balance preset (auto, daylight, sun, incandescent, cloudy), make an amendment into the exposure (-2, -1, 0, +1, +2) and even force the smartphone to shoot with a shutter speed of 1/15, 1/5, 1/2 second or exactly 1 second. The latter makes it possible to take frames with blur effects, but in practice it is quite difficult because locking the gadget in your hands as firmly and firmly as, say, a SLR camera is very difficult. And this is a fundamental factor for creating such artistic effects.
Since not all scenes look good in 16: 9, I took part of the test photos in 4: 3 mode. Frankly, no loss in quality happened, just the resolution of the image was reduced from 16 megapixels to 12 megapixels. And, of course, it quickly became clear that the only opportunity to adjust the ISO and adjust the exposure gives a big gain compared to shooting on the “automatic”. The fact is that the matrices of mobile devices do not have such a wide dynamic range as we would like, therefore overexposure in the brightest parts of the frame is the main trouble of a lover of mobile photography. When choosing the ISO value, the figure is taken at which the brightness drop becomes the smallest, and then using the correction tool the brightest point becomes darker, while the whole frame becomes darker.
I had to use the white balance adjustment only a couple of times - here the automation works very well. But with long exposures, I could not make friends. Either the directness of the hands was not enough, or a special mobile tripod is needed. The blur effect, of course, is obtained, but not only the subject is blurred, but everything in general - the hands are not iron.
If you directly compare the photos taken on Vibe Shot with the images that would make the flagship smartphones of competing brands in the same situation, then the Lenovo gadget lacks only one thing - detail. In “greenhouse” conditions, when the sky is blue and the sun shines brightly and evenly on the subject, everything is almost perfect. But as illumination worsens, noise reduction starts to work more aggressively, and along with noise it quite actively deals with the smallest details in the photo.
But on the other hand, Vibe Shot has an integrated optical image stabilizer that really works and helps a lot. When shooting video on an engineering sample, oddities still occur, so I don’t show videos, but the photos are in order. If the darkness has not yet begun to thicken on the street, a good shot can be taken literally in point and shoot mode, without really concentrating on confidently and reliably fixing the gadget in your hands. The stabilizer also contributes when the HDR mode is activated. Since the pictures are not compiled instantly, the system asks the photographer to hold the smartphone still for some time after pressing the shutter button. So, sometimes I did not follow this recommendation in a very scrupulous manner, but still got the required result.
As for the quality of the HDR mode, it copes with its task, in my opinion, well. Here is an example with a window in a sad staircase that tells everything better than any words. In Pro-mode, the user can also turn to additional shooting algorithms, which, in essence, are stage presets: panorama, background blur effect, panoramic portrait on the front camera, as well as 4 shooting modes in low light and 4 additional HDR operating modes. So, for example, blurring the background will appear: And so “Artistic HDR” in the “City” mode: At the same time, the camera is quite capable of showing good results when the backlight is used correctly: And even at night, Vibe Shot does not become helpless at all:
Of course, it will not work to take macro photos right this way, since the minimum focusing distance is still more or less noticeable. But if you try a little and do a few takes, then the result will be: Plus here are a few more photos in the form of a gallery, which can also be viewed in order to better assess the capabilities of the Lenovo Vibe Shot camera. Photos are clickable:
The smartphone is hovering quickly - infrared focusing helps a lot. Given the very fatal lack of light, a flash will come to the aid of the photographer, which consists of three LEDs of different colors - very bright and powerful.
Well, of course, I did not forget about the selfie, although I really do not like to do them terribly. The front camera with a resolution of 8 megapixels and a fixed focal length is responsible for them. So lips with a bow close-up will not work, you have to pull your hands. In a word, Vibe Shot, perhaps, does not pull on the title of a selfie, but the result is quite acceptable.
Detailed battery testing in an engineering sample is a sinful affair, but still I will share some observations with you. The battery capacity is 2900 mAh, but at the same time the smartphone has a bright FullHD-screen and yet not the most-economical chipset in the world. If you do not turn off the screen for hours, having previously unscrewed the brightness to the limit and actively use 4G and Wi-Fi, then the battery of the watch will last for 6-7 maximum. If you approach the matter in a more rational and balanced way, then a full day of work will work. At the same time, it is necessary to disable the most gluttonous and annoying applications in sleep mode - this will help make the “Power Manager” in the settings. Well, the Qualcomm Battery Guru branded program is worth downloading - no, but it still saves.
I really liked the Lenovo Vibe Shot. If we talk about it as a smartphone, then the gadget is beautiful in almost everything - it has a great design, the current version of Android, a proprietary Vibe UI shell, which I personally respect very much, good performance and a cool screen. Very active users, except that the battery capacity may periodically not be enough, but nobody canceled mobile batteries. If we evaluate the device exclusively as a camera phone, then it still does not quite reach the flagships that everyone knows, although manual settings and decent HDR allow you to unlock the potential of the photomodule to the maximum and get very decent shots. On the other hand, Vibe Shot plays in a completely different price category than the iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S6 or, for example, Sony Xperia Z3 +. So you need to take into account the recommended cost for Russia - this is 24,990 rubles. And with such a pricing policy, all questions, perhaps, immediately disappear.
Caution, under the cut a lot of photos.
My personal favorite among all camera phones is the Nokia 808 PureView, released back in 2012. The Finns (oh, then, after all, no one even knew about the upcoming ups and downs with Microsoft!) Turned out an incredibly terrible smartphone with a surprisingly cool camera. In fact, it was a camera with a built-in phone, and not vice versa: 38 megapixels on a huge matrix of smartphones (1 / 1.2 inches) made it possible to do something like this just by pulling the gadget out of your pocket and pressing the button:
But, of course, I could not become a popular model with Symbian no longer needed by anyone, a screen with a modest resolution of 360x680 pixels, a bunch of complicated shooting settings and by no means the most humane price. Design also left much to be desired. Yes, and for Nokia itself at that time difficult times came, which ended we all know how. In general, I shot the 808th elegantly, but I didn’t like ordinary people, leaving only the observers of equipment and photographers keeping the optics battery and a couple of SLR / system cameras at home on the shelf.
Today, in order to take good pictures on a smartphone, you can simply buy any flagship - this will be enough in most cases. However, none of them has a photomodule with a matrix as large as the Nokia 808 and so many settings. It came to the point that devices were becoming very successful, in which the adjustment of shooting parameters was not provided at all. Of course, I do not mean the aspect ratio of the picture and the on / off of the flash, but the white balance, ISO, exposure compensation, etc. Buyers are important in the simplicity of obtaining an acceptable result, and not the abundance of adjustable parameters. However, simplicity still should not imply a complete lack of opportunities to improve the result, skillfully twisting a couple of sliders. That's just Lenovo Vibe Shot and confirms this.
Appearance
But I'll start with the cover, because the design of the smartphone is an important thing. In the case of Vibe Shot, the wow factor from the appearance even goes to one of the first places, because the gadget looks, in my opinion, very cool. In terms of convenience, there are no questions to the rectangular shape, I was able to verify this even with the example of the “puffed” Vibe X2, which in my hand lies about the same way, that is, it is quite convenient. At the same time, the Vibe Shot has a completely metal base, and the back panel is decorated with Gorilla Glass 3. As a result, if you look at the device from the front, there are no surprises - the almost spilled Vibe X2. But if you look at the back, you can easily confuse a smartphone with a compact camera. And not anyhow, but very beautiful and neat. No kidding: in a week, as many as three people in the subway openly looked at the gadget, trying to understand
By the way, with Vibe Shot compact cameras, another funny detail is related: this is a small mount for a wrist strap, which is usually included in the package of photo-dust boxes. I don’t know if such an accessory will be in the box with the smartphone. I brought the pre-production sample just in an envelope, but I think it is very appropriate. Yet when the glass is not only in the front, but also in the back, the device becomes slippery. During conversations or, say, correspondence in FB Messenger, there are no problems, but when shooting, you need to hold the device horizontally (there are no fans of vertical photos and videos from smartphones, right?), And so that your fingers do not get into the frame. So the additional safety net will definitely not become superfluous.
The tray for two SIM cards and the tray for microSD are removed using a paper clip, the volume buttons and the power button are on the right, the headphone jack is on top, and the speaker under one of the grilles on the bottom end is nothing supernatural. But there are two additional elements on the case - a physical camera activation button, which at the same time acts as an electronic shutter button and a tricky switch that puts camera control in automatic or manual mode.
In addition to such a strict but stylish black Vibe Shot, a model with a red frame around the perimeter of the case and a completely white smartphone are also available. Judging by the photos, they are also no less cute. And on a white gadget, fingerprints will also not be noticeable.
Display
Unfortunately, I do not have a colorimeter, but subjective visual impressions indicate that the screen in Vibe Shot is excellent. The diagonal of the display is 5 inches, the resolution is 1920 × 1080 pixels, the density is high - more than 400 ppi. In general, all this looks like the same IPS matrix that is used in Vibe X2. The brightness margin here is simply huge, and I often reduced the backlight intensity manually because I don’t like the work of the automatic level, and at a maximum in the evening, not even on the street, looking at the display is difficult - my eyes get tired very much. At the same time, there is no problem with hypersensitivity of the sensors - X2 sometimes reacted almost to pressing with the foot, being in the pants pocket.
The color rendition is correct, obviously somewhere very close to sRGB coverage, which is good for a gadget with a bias towards photography. The viewing angles are wide, with a strong tilt of the device, only the depth of black is lost and the shades of white change a little, but this feature does not pull at all for a significant drawback in my eyes. Well, you can work with a smartphone even under the prohibitively bright summer sun, although, of course, in the shade of a tree or any building, typing is more comfortable. A good anti-glare filter together with high brightness combine perfectly, of course, there is an oleophobic coating.
Performance
Before I get to the most interesting part, I’ll say a few words about the hardware of the gadget. It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset with eight cores: four operate at a frequency of 1.1 GHz and the same number at 1.7 GHz. It is built on the 64-bit Cortex A53 architecture, supports big.LITTLE technology, which greatly contributes to saving battery power, and is equipped with an integrated Adreno 405 GPU. can work with DirectX 11.2, OpenGL ES3.0 and even displays with a resolution of 2560x1400 pixels. By the way, why absolutely no monsters are built into smartphones that are at the moment of battery power, I definitely do not understand. Snapdragon 615 is also able to decode H.265 in hardware, it has an integrated LTE Cat 4 modem and it sees Wi-Fi 802.11ac networks. If I don’t confuse anything, even devices from China should quietly catch LTE in the tenacious networks of our favorite mobile operators. But, of course, no gadget with such an origin will have any free support in Lenovo services.
In a word, Snapdragon 615 is a solid such chipset, which, with all its advantages, in practice does not turn the phone into a hot iron. Well, at least in the case of Vibe Shot. And, most importantly, it is supplemented not by one, not two, but immediately by three gigabytes of RAM. All this Lenovo smartphone is more than enough to solve any standard tasks and not slow down. In 3D Mark Ice Storm Extreme, the gadget scores almost 5400 points, in AnTuTu - 35 000 points, and in Epic Citadel it shows 47.1 FPS. I really can hardly imagine someone to whom all this will not be enough.
The amount of internal memory is also very decent - 32 GB. Support for microSD-cards is provided, all the same 615th Qualcomm is able to recognize cards with 128 GB on board, if you do not suffocate a toad to buy this.
But I will not write about software. Geektimes already had a rather detailed article about the features of Lenovo's proprietary shell. In Vibe Shot, it has changed a little since the description, because here already immediately 5.1 by default, but nothing radical happened.
Camera
And so we got to the most interesting. First, a little theory. The physical size of the camera matrix in Vibe Shot remains unknown, but it is clearly not large. But it’s known that the photomodule is based on a backlit matrix with a resolution of 16 MP. The aperture of the lens is F2.2, from the outside it is protected not just by a glass, but by a reliable sapphire crystal. I know from experience that this is really a cool thing that reduces the likelihood of scratches at times. Unusually, the maximum resolution when shooting can be achieved only by making frames with an aspect ratio of 16: 9. If you change the aspect ratio to 4: 2 or 3: 2, then the picture will be smaller.
And now I propose to return to the very lever that I mentioned at the beginning. It has two positions: Auto and Pro. Accordingly, the camera also has two operating modes - almost completely automatic, without settings, and as if professional, with the ability to change some shooting parameters. If you start the camera by long pressing the shutter button, it will be activated in the mode in which the switch is turned.
Auto mode, in my opinion, is not remarkable for anything - the camera does everything by itself. If you go deep into the menu, you can get to the ISO and white balance settings.
But the Pro mode is much more interesting, it helps to unleash the capabilities of the Vibe Shot camera one hundred percent.
Firstly, the most important thing is at hand here: the interface allows you to very quickly select the ISO value (100, 200, 400, 800, 1600), change the white balance preset (auto, daylight, sun, incandescent, cloudy), make an amendment into the exposure (-2, -1, 0, +1, +2) and even force the smartphone to shoot with a shutter speed of 1/15, 1/5, 1/2 second or exactly 1 second. The latter makes it possible to take frames with blur effects, but in practice it is quite difficult because locking the gadget in your hands as firmly and firmly as, say, a SLR camera is very difficult. And this is a fundamental factor for creating such artistic effects.
Since not all scenes look good in 16: 9, I took part of the test photos in 4: 3 mode. Frankly, no loss in quality happened, just the resolution of the image was reduced from 16 megapixels to 12 megapixels. And, of course, it quickly became clear that the only opportunity to adjust the ISO and adjust the exposure gives a big gain compared to shooting on the “automatic”. The fact is that the matrices of mobile devices do not have such a wide dynamic range as we would like, therefore overexposure in the brightest parts of the frame is the main trouble of a lover of mobile photography. When choosing the ISO value, the figure is taken at which the brightness drop becomes the smallest, and then using the correction tool the brightest point becomes darker, while the whole frame becomes darker.
I had to use the white balance adjustment only a couple of times - here the automation works very well. But with long exposures, I could not make friends. Either the directness of the hands was not enough, or a special mobile tripod is needed. The blur effect, of course, is obtained, but not only the subject is blurred, but everything in general - the hands are not iron.
If you directly compare the photos taken on Vibe Shot with the images that would make the flagship smartphones of competing brands in the same situation, then the Lenovo gadget lacks only one thing - detail. In “greenhouse” conditions, when the sky is blue and the sun shines brightly and evenly on the subject, everything is almost perfect. But as illumination worsens, noise reduction starts to work more aggressively, and along with noise it quite actively deals with the smallest details in the photo.
But on the other hand, Vibe Shot has an integrated optical image stabilizer that really works and helps a lot. When shooting video on an engineering sample, oddities still occur, so I don’t show videos, but the photos are in order. If the darkness has not yet begun to thicken on the street, a good shot can be taken literally in point and shoot mode, without really concentrating on confidently and reliably fixing the gadget in your hands. The stabilizer also contributes when the HDR mode is activated. Since the pictures are not compiled instantly, the system asks the photographer to hold the smartphone still for some time after pressing the shutter button. So, sometimes I did not follow this recommendation in a very scrupulous manner, but still got the required result.
As for the quality of the HDR mode, it copes with its task, in my opinion, well. Here is an example with a window in a sad staircase that tells everything better than any words. In Pro-mode, the user can also turn to additional shooting algorithms, which, in essence, are stage presets: panorama, background blur effect, panoramic portrait on the front camera, as well as 4 shooting modes in low light and 4 additional HDR operating modes. So, for example, blurring the background will appear: And so “Artistic HDR” in the “City” mode: At the same time, the camera is quite capable of showing good results when the backlight is used correctly: And even at night, Vibe Shot does not become helpless at all:
Of course, it will not work to take macro photos right this way, since the minimum focusing distance is still more or less noticeable. But if you try a little and do a few takes, then the result will be: Plus here are a few more photos in the form of a gallery, which can also be viewed in order to better assess the capabilities of the Lenovo Vibe Shot camera. Photos are clickable:
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The smartphone is hovering quickly - infrared focusing helps a lot. Given the very fatal lack of light, a flash will come to the aid of the photographer, which consists of three LEDs of different colors - very bright and powerful.
Well, of course, I did not forget about the selfie, although I really do not like to do them terribly. The front camera with a resolution of 8 megapixels and a fixed focal length is responsible for them. So lips with a bow close-up will not work, you have to pull your hands. In a word, Vibe Shot, perhaps, does not pull on the title of a selfie, but the result is quite acceptable.
Battery
Detailed battery testing in an engineering sample is a sinful affair, but still I will share some observations with you. The battery capacity is 2900 mAh, but at the same time the smartphone has a bright FullHD-screen and yet not the most-economical chipset in the world. If you do not turn off the screen for hours, having previously unscrewed the brightness to the limit and actively use 4G and Wi-Fi, then the battery of the watch will last for 6-7 maximum. If you approach the matter in a more rational and balanced way, then a full day of work will work. At the same time, it is necessary to disable the most gluttonous and annoying applications in sleep mode - this will help make the “Power Manager” in the settings. Well, the Qualcomm Battery Guru branded program is worth downloading - no, but it still saves.
General impressions
I really liked the Lenovo Vibe Shot. If we talk about it as a smartphone, then the gadget is beautiful in almost everything - it has a great design, the current version of Android, a proprietary Vibe UI shell, which I personally respect very much, good performance and a cool screen. Very active users, except that the battery capacity may periodically not be enough, but nobody canceled mobile batteries. If we evaluate the device exclusively as a camera phone, then it still does not quite reach the flagships that everyone knows, although manual settings and decent HDR allow you to unlock the potential of the photomodule to the maximum and get very decent shots. On the other hand, Vibe Shot plays in a completely different price category than the iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S6 or, for example, Sony Xperia Z3 +. So you need to take into account the recommended cost for Russia - this is 24,990 rubles. And with such a pricing policy, all questions, perhaps, immediately disappear.