INTRODUCTION

LG K 10 is a basic smartphone designed specially for starters of Android version devices. It is provided with decent features and available at a very affordable price range.

DESIGN

LG K 10 is a 5.3-inch display with curved edges. It has a similar design of LG but with a bigger display. The rear panel looks pretty smooth. The device looks very slim and light weight. The stereo speakers are at the rear side to the bottom.

The branding comes on the rear and front side of the device, to the front it comes on the bottom panel and to the back, it resides below the camera which is dark gray in color. The volume rockers and the power button to the back side. It has a front camera on the upper panel to its right side. A sensor is also present on the upper panel.

The rear panel is removable and you can see a removable battery with sim card and sd card slots. The 3.5mm headphone jack at the top for easy connectivity. The USB cum power slot comes at the bottom. The three capacitive navigation keys are on the lower panel. Its dimensions are 146 x 74.8 x 8.8 mm. Speaker is present right behind the camera. Available in White, Indigo, Gold colors.

DISPLAY

LG K 10 comes with a 5.3-inch display. It is made of IPS LCD panel technology. Comes in LCD multi-capacitive touch screen. It consists of resolution 720 x 1280 pixels. It has a body to screen ratio of ~70.9% with a pixel density of ~277ppi having wide viewing angles. Displaying around 16M colors.

FEATURES

LG K 10 running on OS v5.1 Lollipop. It has been armed with octa-core 1.14 GHz processor. Consisting of 2GB RAM and 16GB internal memory for running apps. It can be expandable through micro sd slot up to 32GB for storing videos and much more. Having primary camera of 13MP with LED flash and recording video at 1080p.

It features geo-tagging and panorama. The front camera is VGA camera for selfies and video calling support. Loudspeakers are given. Wi-Fi, Hotspot, Bluetooth, GPS options are available. Accelerometer and proximity sensors are available. HTML5 browser for fast internet browsing. It has 2300mAh Li-ion removable battery. It is a dual sim mobile with 4G connectivity. Micro USB port 2.0 is available.

PERFORMANCE

The user interface is very normal and there is no much customization. The octa core processor is running at its best speeds. The device has a very good display showing vibrant colors the response time is fast.  The viewing angles are quite nice. It is not that great. Playing videos are good but with some lag time. It supports 1080p videos.

The front camera is ok and ensures to provide video calling and take selfies. The primary camera is good. It is provided with HTML5 browser for internet browsing. The battery backup is also very good. The design is good ad sturdy.

VERDICT

LG K 10 gives a decent performance the UI is normal it has nothing special but it is a mid-range phone. It is a bit slow but the performance is ok while playing games. The camera is average. It is a moderate device and available at Rs.13,500/- which I felt is too pricey to the given specs.