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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

HTC One M8 by far

seems no 8(900) and 20(800)

- no
- depends on rom, usually it does

Technically the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Prime has a better processor. However, in real world usage there would be very little in it either way. There is virtually nothing in it in the Youtube Antutu scores, with this generally getting 46k and the Redmi Note 2 Prime getting 45k-49k (I have had 50k out of some roms for the K3 Note, but I think all the Youtube scores I found for both handsets were with the older Antutu 5.7.1 rather than version 6).

Generally people seem to suggest the Redmi Note 2 and Prime are better, but when looking for custom roms and Marshmallow roms for the Redmi Note 2 Prime, I was coming up far shorter than the K3 Note and there didn't seem to be as many rom releases by Xiaomi themselves either. I think support for the handset is a big thing to consider if you intend to keep it for a while.

The camera on the K3 Note isnt good at all indoors


Mine does, works fine on 4G on Three

I haven't tried the GPS myself, but 7777777 suggested earlier it is adequate but a bit of a battery drainer (I am guessing it isn't as strong as some other devices so draws more on the battery to try and get a lock). As for the camera, at first I thought the snaps were pretty poor (taken indoors in medium light), then I took some snaps in good lighting which I thought were quite good. I think in good lighting the camera is good, no award winner but reasonable. In lower lighting there is a little bit of a blur to the screen when taking snaps, which probably is what affects the quality a bit, maybe if you can stabilise it somehow you would get a good picture. The flash is surprisingly good, as it doubles as a pretty damn good torch, I still prefer a Xenon flash, but so few devices have these now due to the battery drain (why? seriously the flash is on for a second, it isn't on all the time like the screen, who cares if it drains a bit more power).

Not common at all mate

Why?


For low light areas yes, its fine outdoors

i disagree, with no card slot or nfc...there are better than the Oneplus One or Oneplus X

That seems to be the case with all Chinese grey market phones. Even the ones with ios, double tone flashes, the ones using the same Sony sensors as recent flagships. In good light a lot of them can produce decent results but as the sun sets/, you move indoors the quality suffers. I currently own xiaomi Redmi note 2 and it's a nice phone but the camera suffers from Chinese phone camera syndrome.

If your telling people to avoid this phone becasue of the camera alone then you should stick to using a DSLR for your photography.

Apart from the camera there isn't really anything else that's bad about the phone.

My hammer will destroy your iPhone 6

It wont work on O2's 4g, that is the band they use

There is a review (somewhere, can't find it now) which does a detailed analysis and has it rated as one of the best out there, even comparing with much more expensive phones. Additionally, due to Lenovo's buying power, the RAM and ROM chips are of superior quality which is why it scores so well in the tests (there is a Youtube showing the dismantling of the phone and examination of the chips).

Here's a decent review, but not the one that I was looking for; addresses screen and GPS

http://www.gizchina.com/2015/07/08/lenovo-k3-note-review-best-mt6752-device-date/

You have to search for it. K3 Note

Been looking at the umi touch myself it looks a very nice phone for the money,And as far as i can tell has dual sim and and sd card slot which does it for me.

Good shout it's better specced. Might get one myself if I can find custom ROMs for it.

Depends; new masts are going up for O2- I recently got a 4G signal, but they are rare beasts at the moment.

i6?

I have the p8 lite and have just ordered the k3. Like my p8 but there are a few things that bug me. Battery is is slowly getting worse after only a few months. The screen is OK but the k3 has a far superior resolution. The p8 is a little laggy at times. I think this is a software problem though. Also the BBC I player doesn't work on the p8. A well known problem. Very similar specs but the k3 is slightly better and has far more support and roms on the forums.

I have the P8 Lite and think it is excellent for the money. Never used this Lenovo phone though so can't compare.

I put Google Now Launcher on my P8 Lite and it runs very well and I've found the battery life decent.

Why??