Lava Z25 smartphone review

Indian cell phone brands have been very lethargic off recently, arranging and strategizing on the best way to undermine the market, which is as of now ruled by Chinese players. Magma is by all accounts one of those brands that as of recently, was working diligently in creating what it's presently calling 'Magma 2.0'. What's more, to demonstrate its new heading, the organization, following quite a while of unobtrusively slipping out spending handsets in the market, as of late propelled a leader cell phone - the Z25. 


Magma Z25 is the 'organization's first' in more than one ways. It not simply denotes the introduction of the organization's "Z" arrangement, but on the other hand is Lava's most costly cell phone up to this point. The handset has "another" plan with preferable camera capacities over what we have seen in past Lava cell phones. It has a sticker price of Rs 18,000 and is as of now up for gets on the web. 

With the Z25, the organization has enhanced two fronts - camera(s) and outline. Be that as it may, are these two alone sufficiently convincing for clients to spend Rs 18,000 on the Z25? How about we discover. 

Plan and show 

Despite the fact that it's guaranteed to have another look, Lava Z25, sadly, resembles some other Chinese cell phone in the market. It's strikingly like the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, Lenovo K6 Note or the Coolpad Note 5 Lite. 

Magma says that it did a market study and observed the specific plan to be the most adored by clients. The handset producer has even utilized a similar Gold shading that we've found in a few cell phones as of now. 

Impersonation aside, we welcome the constructed nature of the Z25 and the close by feeling it offers. It is genuinely simple to work the gadget without any assistance. Since the back plate bends from each of the four sides into the level show, it has a decent measure of a hold. The jewel cut chamfered edges running over every one of the four sides with sparkling metal edges add to the rich look. These can likewise be discovered running on the top and base of the backboard, under which lie the reception apparatuses. The power and volume catches are on the sides. 


Not at all like most of the cell phones, Lava Z25 has a power catch and a half-breed double SIM card space on the correct side, and volume catches on the left, rather than having everything at a similar side. The catches are material and fall right where your fingers are put while holding the cell phone. At the back, there's a camera appropriate in the middle of the double LED streak put just underneath it. Under the LED blaze, there's a round unique mark sensor, which is amazingly precise and worked about each time amid our use. Magma guarantees that it can open the cell phone in only 0.1 seconds. 


The typical vicinity sensor, encompassing light sensor, front-confronting camera, and speaker grille are set over the show, while the bezels beneath the screen are plain with no equipment or capacitive catches. At the base, there are two speaker grilles on either side of a microUSB port. The 3.5mm sound jack remains on top. 

Out of the two speakers, just a single tosses out sound while alternate mirrors the sound. The sound yield is better than average, getting noisy and harsh much of the time. However, because of position, clients may wind up covering the speaker with their hands while seeing recordings/playing diversions in scene mode. 

The Lava Z25's 5.5-inch HD show (720x1280 pixels) show doesn't break much ground and is what you'll discover in various different cell phones. We don't believe that incorporating an HD show in a Rs 18,000 telephone is a sensible choice with respect to Lava, as you can without much of a stretch get cell phones with Full HD determination shows in that cost. 


Regardless, the screen's brilliance and obscurity levels are adequate to serenely read it in splendid sunshine and at night.The 2.5D glass is inclined to minor scratches at the corners, for which Lava is putting forth a defensive screen monitor and a straightforward TPU case. 

There are minor shading tone shifts when seeing the show from various points, however, dynamic quality and immersion are up to the check. It's hard to suggest the Z25 as a media utilization gadget in light of the show and sound yield. In spite of the fact that there's no Blue Light channel here, the committed Display tab makes tweaking the settings less demanding. You can change the shine, backdrop, route bar symbols, screen test clock, text dimension, auto-turn and significantly more from this tab. 

Execution and camera 

Camera, battery and general execution of the Lava Z25 got a blended response from us. The Z25 is fueled by a 1.5GHz octa-center MediaTek MT6750 SoC, combined with 4GB of RAM. For what's justified regardless of, this is additionally the organization's first cell phone to have that much RAM. 

On paper, this mix appears to be normal for Chinese cell phones that fall in the specific value fragment. Be that as it may, amid our utilization, the gadget performed superior to we'd anticipated. We played applications like Asphalt Extreme, Mortal Kombat and a great deal more, with no slacks. Be that as it may, the applications took a couple of additional seconds than common to stack. Some stammering was likewise noticeable when taking a shot at overwhelming applications at the same time. Generally, we found the telephone smooth amid everyday use. 

Not surprisingly, Lava Z25 was down in benchmark postings. While it scored 40741 on AnTuTu benchmark, the scores on GeekBench were 613 (single center) and 2500 (multi-center). 

We would've acknowledged if Lava had utilized a superior processor, making the general bundle somewhat more justified, despite all the trouble. Another division where it could've enhanced is the bloatware, as the Z25 accompanies loads of undesirable applications introduced. 


These incorporate Reliance Jio's suite of applications as well as different applications like Game Hub, Ghana, My Notes, NewsPoint, Browser, Google Chrome, BeautyPlus Me, Daily hunt and Video Player. So, you can uninstall a large portion of these applications so it's not by any stretch of the imagination that awful. 

Magma Z25 runs the organization's own StarOS v3.3 UI layer, prepared on top of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. There is no word on the matter of when precisely the cell phone will get Android 7.0 Nougat refresh. Getting to various components is simple, yet the absence of an application drawer may trouble a few clients. 

The Settings page has three tabs - General, Sound, and Display. Like the Display segment, the General and Sound tabs give simple access to significant framework controls. 

The 4G VoLTE-proficient handset has a cross breed SIM space. Voice gathering was attractive and the call quality was clear and uproarious amid our testing. 

The camera is one office where Lava Z25 oversees excessively perform better. Fueling the back camera is a 13MP Sony IMX258 sensor with f/2.0 gap and double LED streak, which is sufficiently nice for easygoing shooters. Try not to expect any phenomenal shots, however. Hues are very much immersed. 


Notwithstanding, the sensors don't appear to play well with commotion levels when shooting in fake and low light conditions. Commotion is unmistakable even in pictures that are shot in low-light conditions. In specific cases, we additionally found the cell phone rendering the pictures 1-2 seconds after the review was extended. Likewise, be set up to get corona like impacts around the wellspring of the light in the picture. In any case, sunshine shots were fresh and sharp. 

Other than the auto camera mode, you likewise get two all the more shooting modes for simple get to - Video and Beauty-Fi. The Beautify-Fi mode is for shooting upgraded representation shots. It has four levels and works with both back and front cameras.

Lava Z25	VS	Samsung Galaxy A5 2016
Octa core	PERFORMANCE	Octa core
5.5" (13.97 cm)	DISPLAY	5.2" (13.21 cm)
32 GB	STORAGE	16 GB
13 MP	CAMERA	13 MP
3020 mAh	BATTERY	2900 mAh
4 GB	RAM	2 GB

The camera UI is not that easy to use and you should tap two or three times to achieve the camera settings. Getting to the front-confronting camera, LED streak, diverse shooting modes, and the picture review is simple with one tap. A portion of the shooting modes included is Sound Picture, Template, Wide Selfie, Extreme Beauty, Filter, and GIF Mode. 

The front-confronting 8MP camera was noteworthy as it shot fresh and exact pictures in light conditions. It even figured out how to convey conventional outcomes in fake and low-light settings. 

Magma Z25 can catch pictures in 8MP (4:3 or 16:9) and 5MP (4:3 or 16:9) resolutions and accompanies regular settings like Touch to catch, Voice catch, Smile shot, Gesture shot, clock, White adjust conform, ISO and Grid lines. Concerning the video, yield was nice and ought to extinguish the thirst of the day by day client. The cell phone can shoot Full HD determination recordings and has highlights like GPS area information, clamor decrease, Electronic Image Stabilization and Audio mode. 

We were inspired by the battery execution of the Lava Z25. The handset's 3,020mAh battery can go up to more than 12 hours with general utilization. On substantial use including sound/video gushing and consistent 4G/Wi-Fi availability, the cell phone can keep running up to 8 hours. 

Magma Z25 is a noteworthy stride ahead for the organization, particularly in the plan and camera divisions. The cell phone has a totally unique outline dialect, is more element rich than before and accompanies a redesigned camera that performs great in many settings. Be that as it may, Lava appears to have made a stride back with the estimating 

The Z25 certainly looks impacted by other Chinese cell phones. What's more, attempting to make a rebound in the fragment with aggressive estimating won't passage well for the organization. In the event that you're chasing for options, there are numerous you can consider, for example, Gionee A1, Samsung Galaxy A5 2016, HTC One X9, Oppo F1S, Moto M and Vivo V5.