Lenovo’s attempts to make its name into the smartphone market have recently started taking shape as they surely have had some growing sales and are only bested by Huawei, among the Chinese manufacturers. They are certainly not standing idle in the smartphone race by producing some great devices at very affordable prices. The S90 is strikingly similar to the Vibe Z2 in most of the specifications other than the design department. It is an attempt to best the mid-range market and act as an all-rounder in terms of features.

The device from late 2014, has a 5” Super AMOLED HD display (720 x 1280 pixels) at 294 pixels per inch density. Being a Super AMOLED, it produces some nice rich colors and is certainly a good display. The phone offers a Dual SIM option and has LTE support to go with the normal 2G and 3G networks support. The phone comes in 16 and 32 GB internal memory options with 1 GB and 2 GB of RAM respectively and sadly doesn’t have a memory expansion slot.

Under the hood of the S90, dubbed Sisley, is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chipset that runs a quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 processor and Adreno 306 graphics just like the Vibe Z2. The specifications are nothing short of a quality phone in the price range of its kind, and can certainly take on the other manufacturers’ mid-rangers.

Lenovo decided to do one over the competitors by putting a good package of cameras in this affordable mid-range device. The rear camera is a 13 megapixels sensor which is capable of taking some really good pictures at f/2.0 wide aperture. It certainly performs really well in low light as well. It records 1080p video at 30 frames per second. The front camera is an 8 megapixels sensor that has an LED flash to go along with it for taking selfies in low-light conditions

The phone falls short in the battery department as it offers a non-removable 2300 mAh battery which will hardly make it through the day with good use of LTE and such services.