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Do note that when shipping goods from China to the UK you are liable for import duty if it is requested. This is charged at 20% of the value printed on the shipping paperwork. (Also see: Best budget Chinese phones.) Lenovo Z5 Pro Design & Build With a 6.39in full-screen display and cool sliding screen mechanism the Lenovo Z5 Pro is a futuristic and premium-looking device.
It’s on the chunky side at 9.3mm, and slightly thicker than the Honor Magic 2 and Mi Mix 3 with which it shares a similar design, but much of this comes down to that sliding screen. Actually we don’t mind the extra width, since it helps the phone feel more steady in the hand when you’re opening and closing the screen. Much more impressively, despite all three phones housing a 6.39in 19.5:9 Super AMOLED display, the Lenovo is the shortest and narrowest of the lot, which means it has done the best job of minimising the screen bezels – here down to just 2.07mm. The screen itself is gorgeous, vibrant with punchy colours, deep blacks and brilliant whites.
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In our tests it was brighter than the 407cd/m2 Mi Mix 3 and 386cd/m2 Honor Magic 2 at 416cd/m2. That should make it easily visible in direct sunlight. In common with the Magic 2 there’s a fingerprint sensor built right into that screen, and Lenovo refers to the tech behind it as ‘fifth-generation photoelectric’. We were surprised by how well it works – better, we reckon, than on our Mi 8 Pro. You can also use a standard PIN, pattern or passcode, or face unlock which works perfectly well even in the dark.
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Overall the design is nice, though its glossy surface is incredibly slippery so you need to be careful where you set it down. The groove where the aluminium frame meets the glass panel is more noticeable than on many phones due to way it curves in around the volume rocker and power button, but we prefer the central mounting of the slightly protruding dual-lens camera as it makes the Z5 Pro more steady when used on a desk or flat surface. Though the slider feels smooth in action, with a satisfying click into place, without extensive use we have no way of knowing for how long this will be the case nor how much grime will find its way behind the display.
We’d like to see an Always-on Display, as on the Mi Mix 3, so that you don’t need to operate the slider to check the time or for any notifications, though one of the options in the ZUI Lab menu lets you wake the screen by raising the phone, and you can always tap the power button instead. A nice touch is the ability to have the lock screen scroll through a gallery of images so you see something different each time you pick it up, but other than this there’s no room for customisation of the slider. You can use it to answer calls (which you’ll want to do anyway since the earpiece is behind the screen), or if you have the camera app open it will switch the view to the selfie camera, but otherwise the sliding screen has no use other than to conceal the front cameras.
It’s reasonably unusual to see the volume rocker on a phone’s left side, since it can make use of that button awkward when the phone is carried in a wallet-style case. But the design of the Z5 Pro makes it unlikely that you would select such a case. In fact, you’re probably not going to be able to use anything other than a standard rear cover case.
You will find a couple of screen protectors are supplied in the box. The pin-operated SIM tray is at the top of the device, and this accepts two nano-SIMs but there’s no room for microSD. Even the entry-level 64GB model we’ve reviewed here is reasonably generous, but if you think you’re going to need more storage you should opt for the 128GB version. There’s no headphone jack here, but audio can be delivered via USB-C with the necessary headphone adaptor supplied in the box.
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