Today I'm playing with the S8 from Samsung in a shopping centre (has just arrived to public in Poland) and while in camera department it's like day and night, the S8's speaker is...just worse: noticeable quieter and, P2 owners will understand, not as "punchy" or "deep" as the P2's one, especially in the low-mids and basses. No progress compared to the S7.

Obviously audio jack is better in the S8... But overall, I'm not amazed by the S8 in real life... I would also wait for the Note 8.

1 PLN = 3,95 US USD. Prices: 3499 PLN- S8 and 3949 PLN - S8+, so basically over 850$ and almost 1000 $. LG G6 costs 3299 PLN, so over 800$. The P2 right now is starting from 1299 PLN (~330$), but in January it started from 1599 PLN (~400$). That was weird because in other European countries the P2 was sometimes cheaper than 300$ from the beginning of sell.

This post has been edited by Chlastek: Apr 19 2017, 08:15 PM

Some Polish humorous news website wrote an article "First honest and non-paid review of the Galaxy S8 in Polish Internet" and they simply added a photo of ... credit application. For lots of people these are two salaries, in fact. In Poland officially sold (with 2- year warranty, to buy in any shopping centre, even just one floor above me right now; obviously you can buy it much cheaper from China and there is even a 1-year warranty with service for 5$ from Ibuygo) Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X with Snap 625 costs exactly the same as the P2 - 1299. Moto G5's will launch within next two weeks in Poland, their prices are unknown so far.

This post has been edited by Chlastek: Apr 19 2017, 10:21 PM

I managed to make (as always in a electronic shop) YT full brightness test myself with both S8 and S8+. My results were: 14 %/h -S8\ 11-12%/h - S8+. I tested my P2 once again and I received results 7,5-8%\h. When we calculate how many mAh there is from each battery all of these phones have consumed about 400mAh. Also for the first time I played some games on my P2: Asphalt 8/Extreme, Real Racing 3, CSR Racing etc. with full brightness, NFC, BT, localisation, mobile data turned on and....with 5 hours of playing around I lost about 11%/h... It seems that killing P2 under 8,5- 9h is pretty much impossible, I think the camera app also uses the same amount of energy, maybe up to 12% (full brightness photographing or video recording). What's more, I tested the P2 speaker against pretty much every mid-range and flagship phone available officially in Poland. Only phones which are almost as loud or as loud (In my opinion the P2 was never "the quieter one") as the P2 were Huawei Mate 9 &
9 Pro (but surprisingly IMO normal Mate 9 was louder), iPhone 7 and I liked how the front-facing Moto Z (and Z Play) sounded but still they were a little bit quieter. P2's speaker was noticeably louder and more impressive in terms of quality than the majority mono speakers: the new LG G6, all Samsungs, Asus Zenfone 3, Redmi Note 4, Huawei's P9 or P10 (also Lite versions) or Sony stereo speakers (but those never were the loudest on the market). However, somehow any of those sounded as "non-digital" as the P2, even Mate's and iPhone's. I was surprised that always my P2 was "different", especially while listening to known for me Youtuber's voices P2 is making -for a smartphone obviously- a damn good job. It seems that GSMArena really wasn't​ lying about the P2 with "It's one of the better single-speaker setups we've encountered lately."

This post has been edited by Chlastek: Apr 25 2017, 01:35 AM

Yes, I use S233 firmware and I haven't got any problems with fast charging. Everything just works as good as with MM. I've just tested it: 51 to 71 % in 18 minutes.

This post has been edited by Chlastek: Apr 26 2017, 05:01 PM

Something interesting has been announced today in Poland. Today the G5 and G5 Plus presented officially for the first time and... Lenovo Moto "transforms" from Lenovo Moto into Motorola Moto. Therefore G5 will be sold as "Motorola Moto G5" or Z/Z Play as "Motorola Moto Z/Z Play". And more importantly, Lenovo phones (P2 & K6 family) will be sold till the end of Q3 2017. Then "Lenovo" phones in Poland won't be sold, there will only bwvMotorola Moto brand on the Polish market

This post has been edited by Chlastek: Apr 28 2017, 02:51 PM

Let's have a look inside our phone:


I've just tested video recording with Motocamera app from XDA, it records videos at 25 fps but constantly, like Open Camera. In general that FPS drop thing bothers me, because I've also watched first Mi6 tests and on their recent software the Mi6 also drops FPS.

This post has been edited by Chlastek: May 6 2017, 07:37 PM

Well, my P2 in Poland had originally this branded software but in January I flashed worldwide ROM manually. What probably means that my warranty is voided but this don't bother me. Phones which are sold in stores haven't got any branding obviously. However, branded ones are usually available in auctions for 20-30% lower price than official price in stores. This is also very bad news to the British people: they have the cheapest P2 in the world and their carrier won't be able to bring Nougat officialy... What a shame.

This post has been edited by Chlastek: Jun 2 2017, 03:03 AM

I've been really busy recently however I've had some experience about sound recording with Nougat during a concert and it turned out that still I do not recommend bringing a P2 for a concert no matter which app you'll be using. The problem is that with professional speakers a bass is really strong and the P2 simply can deal with it. I've got some samples below:

On the 18th of June I'll retest how my P2 does job with car exhausts again but let's say it's usable if you're not too close to the car:


EDIT: Today I was on a simillar event and the audio was alright... at least 20-25 metres away from a scene. Even then the recorded sound is loud enough. I'll upload my samples pretty soon as well. No problem even closely to the scene when people are talking.

This post has been edited by Chlastek: Jun 4 2017, 07:22 AM

Let's be honest, that was unevitable..


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I wasn't there for months. Fortunately my already 1 year old P2 is still rocking.
In July and August I was hard working and my phone wasn't being used very much. So in 2 months I chardged it...4 times! My record is 17 days. Other results were 14, 15 and 13 days with simillar usage.
Here are some stats back with the stock ROM.
A week ago I've decided to root my phone and flash a custom ROM. It turned out, that a battery life is slightly better than my results with stock, with the same apps as before: Wi-fi only (27% includes 8% drain while listening to the music/radio off-screen) and data only.
However, I've got second good news, but it requires root to enable Camera 2 api: Snap Camera HDR with this settings can do this, I was holding my phone in my hands. Photos despite being not the sharpest are different as day and night compared to the stock camera's quality.

This post has been edited by Chlastek: Dec 14 2017, 06:38 AM

After 6 days I can't say much: Overall speed of software has slightly improved, charging speed is in my case- unofficial Lineage OS 14.1 but there will be an official 14.1 and then should be 15 based on Oreo- slightly lower, 2,5h instead 2h to fully charge my phone. Fingerprint gestures are working. I don't use mobile payments but there are some people who had succesfully passed SafetyNet test after some tweaks and for them everything works. There are so far 2 important bugs in my ROM: after enabling and disabling an airplane mode calls and messages don't work without a reboot and only FilmicPro Camera can record a video. Snap Camera has got a smooth stabilisation but it cannot record properly- this was said to be repaired. Overall custom ROMs might (and should) be further improved, LOS also will be. Hopefully in 2018 lots of P2's will breath some fresh air thanks to all of the developers work.

This post has been edited by Chlastek: Dec 14 2017, 05:55 PM