okay so for the past few weeks one of my team members has been using the lava Agni 2 as his primary phone and this is actually the first time we've tested a lava phone at Gadget byte and we have been really impressed in many ways for us this phone has pretty much lived up to its hype but I have to tell you getting this phone was not easy I bought this unit from Amazon after a lot lot of struggle the phone would go on sale and right after a few moments it would no longer be available and that went on for a couple of times until I finally managed to get my hands on it so even though there are a ton of positive reviews of this device out there availability is still a big question mark I guess lava decided to fully spec Availability out this device did a ton of marketing and everything but maybe they did not anticipate the kind of huge demand it would create even today if you wish to order this device from Amazon you simply can't so
I truly truly think lava needs to sort this out ASAP anyway talking about the device itself first of all the pricing is really good but you have to note that 20 000 was just an introductory price for it and its actual MRP is 22 000 right now um the reason that I'm mentioning this is because introductory prices are actually not available for a longer time and sometimes it can get really misleading still for 22 000 rupees lava Design has provided really competitive specs but at the same time there are a few things the company urgently needs to fix so let's talk about the good things for us starting with the design for the price
I really appreciate the look and feel of this device it's pretty well built but after recently reviewing the realme 11 Pro I feel like the design of the ugly 2 is not as refined as real mail it is also slightly on the heavier side for a device that has a relatively small smaller 4 700 milliamp hour battery but it's not extremely uncomfortable to use so getting used to it is not a problem the glass back has Display not suffered any scratches up until now and even though we have not put in a screen protector surprisingly there are no scratches on the front too lava Agni 2's display quality is also quite good it's a 10 bit AMOLED panel and it has very good touch response
I found the colors on it to be a bit too saturated and contrasty and that's not just in the Vivid profile but also on the default profile but after using it for a good number of days we've just gotten used to it so if boosted colors are not a problem this is a pretty good display to look at for General usage it's actually very close to what the more expensive realme 11 Pro office having said that I really wish that lava had provided a stereo speaker setup to amp up the content experience on this phone I mean the single speaker here is loud and is not bad per se but you definitely missed the stereo output also there is no HDR playback support on Netflix here and even on Prime video HDR content looks somewhat soft and weird apart from that interacting with this display has been a pleasant experience and one of the reasons why is because lava has included a good haptic motor on this phone the vibration here is strong and you can feel the phone buzzing even when you're carrying it in your back so that is really nice the performance
Performance levels on the lava magnitude is pretty satisfactory too it features the same Diamond City 7050 chipset as the real me 11 Pro and general usage on this phone including app opening and multitasking is smooth enough sometimes there would be a little bit of stutter here and there but that's really not a big deal as it has not happened very often gaming on it is not bad either the diamond City 7050 as we know is not exactly a gaming chipset but this phone certainly can handle titles like
Call of Duty and pubg quite easily and thanks to a vapor cooling chamber the phone can handle 30 to 40 minutes of engine impact at medium graphic settings without overheating and if PS drop so that is good too the Omni 2 is also optimized for higher FPS gameplay in games like Injustice 2 and make Arena which by the way even the realme 11 Pro is not equipped for okay Camera with that let me talk about the things that need a little bit of fixing on the lava I'll need two starting with the cameras so if I have to summarize ugly 2's camera capabilities I would not say that they are reliable and consistent it's 50 megapixel primary sensor works well during good lighting
Lava Agni 2 Review: After 1 month of Testing!
conditions with nice colors and contrast levels but as soon as you go out in a slightly difficult lighting it messes up the HDR pretty badly in portraits too sometimes you get nice images with pleasing skin tone while the other times the background looks extremely unnatural and exposed same with the Selfies too and don't even get me started with the ultrawide shots the lava Agni 2 produces one of the worst Ultra wide angle images in the mid-range price bracket honestly looking at the ultra white shots I wish they had skipped the sensor altogether and just focused on making the primary one better during night time too
Lava Agni 2 Review: After 1 month of Testing!
sometimes the output would be nice and sharp while at times the camera would just go Haywire this is a same picture taken from the ugly to five minutes apart and you can see how one is so drastically different from the other also one funny thing I noticed here is that there is no night mode in Ultra wide angle images for some reason so overall the cameras on the lava only 2 are not the most reliable and comparing it with something like the realme 11 Pro you can definitely get a better output with the latter boat during daytime and nighttime videos from 8 are average too in 4K resolution there is no stabilization at all and the footages have a weird color science too to solve that you can switch to either 2K or 1080p resolution I prefer the sharpness and steadiness in 2K videos better now if you're wondering about selfie videos well as you can see from the samples right here on the screen it's pretty mediocre at best likewise something else Software that the lava only 2 needs fixing is the software now don't get me wrong I found its stock Android experience with no bloatware to be quite refreshing but there are certain aspects of its software that require an immediate fix for instance it's auto brightness sensor just does not work well it's either always making the display two dim or too bright its camera shutter also casually stops working time and again and although it has a
Lava Agni 2 Review: After 1 month of Testing!
clean Android experience the lack of animations in certain parts of its UI makes it really boring to use one other thing for some strange reason its fingerprint sensor gets too bright while you unlock the device it's not much of an issue during daytime but at night it almost Turtles you which is very unpleasant so Conclusion basically it's these little things that in a lot of ways hamper the overall user experience on the lava Agony too yes the company has promised two years of os in three years of quarterly security updates on this phone so I am guessing sooner or later these bugs will be resolved but my point is if a phone has so many things going wrong the company should not wait around for a quarterly security update to fix it I think a company like lava who wants to make its name in an extremely competitive mid-range smartphone segment needs to be more sensitive and act quickly on this matter take nothing for example the company has been working so well to fix all the bugs and issues and that has earned a lot of consumers trust lastly the battery life here is also not that great on a single charge the phone would give around 5 hours of screen on time which is extremely average in our experience the major reason for that is number one lack of better brightness Management number two even in
Lava Agni 2 Review
the dynamic refresh rate option it does not switch to 60 hertz while playing video so it's not very optimized and finally the overnight battery drain here on average is about five to six percent which is quite high so I definitely see a lot of room for improvement regarding battery optimization for charging the 66 watt charger that you get inside the Box takes this phone from zero to 100 in less than an hour so no complaints on that part okay so my verdict of the lava Agni 2 is that it definitely is an exciting device one that has the right set of specs and price for the Indian Mass but as of now the company has got a lot of work to do behind the scenes first they absolutely have to fix the stock and availability issue and second they got to listen to user feedback and reviews and improve the experience so everywhere that was all for our long-term experience with the lava Agni 2 just to let you know this unit was purchased by gadgetbyte and our review in any way is not influenced by lava or any other entity saying this thanks so much for watching I'm prathima and I'll see you soon