Lenovo K3 Note 5.5" 4G Smartphone - £89.71 @ Focal Price

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Lenovo K3 Note 5.5" 4G Smartphone £89.71 from focalprice

£89.71 Focal Price4 Mar 16

Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Mobiles

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mattcanning

4 Mar 16

This is a brilliant phone, now sub £90.
I bought one when it was at £110 about 6 months ago and it's been excellent.
I rooted it and put cyanogen mod on it.
I'll add the link on how to do it in a later post.
See specs below
And yes it lacks the 800mhz 4g band :)

Top comments

7777777 to callagc

4 Mar 16 71 #53

My hammer will destroy your iPhone 6

sdutton007

6 Mar 16 12 #106

To be fair, the iPhone is made by the same Chinese kids as this phone.

Also, I think there's a field somewhere missing an iSheep....

RiverDragon8

4 Mar 16 9 #2

Good deal for a FHD screen, Dual sim and 3000mAh battery. I would have bought it if it was 5 inches. or below.

s50m3

5 Mar 16 7 #90

why are people comparing this to a bloody iphone 6 when it costs 4times more?!! Bloody go back to sleep!

All comments (144)

mattcanning

4 Mar 16 2 #1

Brand & Model. Lenovo K3 Note
Phone Style. 4G Smartphone
Phone Standard. GSM, WCDMA
SIM Card Configuration Dual SIM card dual standby
SIM Card Type Micro SIM card
Network Support
2G: GSM 900/1800/1900MHz,
3G: WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100MHz,
4G: LTE FDD 1800/2100/2600MHZ
Operating System Android 5.0
CPU 64bit MTK6752 octa-core 1.7GHz CPU

RiverDragon8

4 Mar 16 9 #2

Good deal for a FHD screen, Dual sim and 3000mAh battery. I would have bought it if it was 5 inches. or below.

mattcanning

4 Mar 16 2 #3

Loads of good advice from the hotukdeals crew on this earlier thread:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-k3-note-android-5-0-mtk6752-octa-core-4g-phone-w-5-5-fhd-2gb-ram-16gb-rom-2234539#comments

klsurfer

4 Mar 16 #4

does this have multiuser ? , guest etc ?

antonywhite37

4 Mar 16 #5

Very similar to Vodafone smart ultra personally would go for that for warranty reasons alone

7777777 to antonywhite37

4 Mar 16 4 #6

Have both, the Lenovo has much better camera, plenty of roms to choose from and overall is faster, the Vodafone on the other hand has nfc (if you need it), 800mhz LTE band and better gps (significantly lower battery consumption).

I did try the cyanogenmod but there were some issues with unresponsive screen, installed vibeui 1609 Lemonade (android 6.0) - so far so good.

nige182 to antonywhite37

4 Mar 16 3 #19

As 7777777 stated, I also own both, I bought the Vodafone Smart ultra 6 first and it is a lovely phone but lags in a lot of games. I wanted a dual sim anyway and when the Lenovo K3 Note went on offer before Christmas for around £80 from Gearbest's EU warehouse I read up about it and watched some benchmark vids. It was a no-brainer upgrade. For reference, the Vodafone Smart ultra 6 gets an Antutu benchmark score of around 27k, the Lenovo K3 Note gets around 46k, though in some roms can get as high as 50k and is currently the 13th highest score of ALL handsets detailed within the app, which I assume means the 13th highest of those handsets with enough scores submitted to take a reliable average scoring.

NFC on the Vodafone is the only thing I miss, the Lenovo is far better for games, no lagging whatsoever, dual sim allows me to run a Giffgaff sim for calls and texts and Freedompop for data. There are far more options for roms on the Lenovo (I am currently on the latest stable VibeUI based Cuoco, but think I prefer the Greeshan VibeUI based roms) and it has a strong community support on xda, along with WEEKLY official dev cycle updates which you can swap to or regular (currently about every two months) official stable updates.

I would recommend checking out the handset on delivery and then once you are satisfied it is working fine, flashing one of the most recent roms on xda. I do recommend against the Marshmallow roms for now, it is only on the dev cycle at the moment, but will release stable in about a month so may as well wait for that. I can understand peoples want for the latest rom, but a lot of people trying it seem to not realise it is still technically a beta, there will be glitches. If you want the phone to function completely as it should do stick to the stable roms.

jakeby to antonywhite37

6 Mar 16 1 #99

You've obviously never had to deal with Vodafone support.

rubbish2k

4 Mar 16 #7

I have this phone with Limonchelo...easy install once I realised my SD card was naff.

Great phone..everything runs nice and quick

eBay has cases

Samsung chargers (higher amps) charges the phone nice and quick

fishmaster to rubbish2k

4 Mar 16 #57

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoncello

Now that sounds even more interesting that a custom ROM. I will see how much I can drink before I become incapable of installing a new ROM.

deepmenace

4 Mar 16 1 #8

new marshmallow rom by cuoco has made this phone my favorite ever.
(disclaimer - i've never spent over £130 on a phone )

http://www.needrom.com/download/cuoco92-1610-vibeui-3-1/

adamdroitwich to deepmenace

5 Mar 16 #83

The comments indicate this ROM is really buggy. Have you found this?

bladerfc

4 Mar 16 #9

What is better this or htc one m8?

allowed to bladerfc

4 Mar 16 #23

You will not be buy to buy an M8 for anywhere close to this price... and if money is no object the M8

aramaj36 to bladerfc

4 Mar 16 #64

HTC One M8 by far