Lava Agni 5G Assessment: Will It Set the Market on Hearth?

Lava Mobiles is again within the information with its first 5G smartphone in India, the Lava Agni 5G. This new mannequin has been launched within the sub-Rs. 20,000 phase, which is now bustling with 5G smartphones. From the seems to be of it, the Lava Agni 5G does appear properly spec’d. It’s powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 810 SoC and sports activities a quad digicam setup. It additionally packs in a 5,000mAh battery and helps 30W quick charging. With such highly effective {hardware}, can the Agni 5G set the market on hearth? I put the Lava Agni 5G to the take a look at to seek out out.

Lava Agni 5G worth in India

The Lava Agni 5G is priced at Rs. 19,999 in India for its lone 8GB RAM, 128GB storage configuration. It is out there in just one color referred to as Fiery Blue.

Lava Agni 5G design

The Lava Agni 5G is a giant smartphone, packing in a 6.78-inch show with a holepunch for the selfie digicam. This gap is noticeable and will be distracting. I discovered the bezels across the show to be smooth, with solely the chin being comparatively thicker. The telephone has a plastic physique, and the body has a shiny blue end that shines when mild displays off it. Lava has curved the perimeters of the body which makes this telephone comfy to carry. The highest and backside are flat.

Some folks would possibly discover the digicam gap distracting

 

The ability and quantity buttons are on both aspect, positioned in direction of the center of the body, making them simple to achieve. The ability button on the correct has an built-in capacitive fingerprint scanner to unlock the telephone with. Above the quantity buttons on the left aspect is the slot for the hybrid dual-SIM tray. The Lava Agni 5G has a 3.5mm headphone jack, USB Sort-C port, and loudspeaker on the backside, whereas the highest solely has the secondary microphone.

Lava has gone with a quad-camera setup on the again, and the module does protrude. It has a two-step design with the dual-LED flash and a single digicam sensor in step one, and the opposite three digicam sensors raised a bit additional. The again panel has a shiny end and picks up smudges relatively simply. You get a case within the field, together with a 30W quick charger. The telephone weighs 204g, which is noticeable when utilizing it.

Lava Agni 5G specs and software program

The Lava Agni 5G has a 6.78-inch IPS LCD show with a full-HD+ decision and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for defense. The Agni 5G is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 810 SoC, which can be discovered within the Realme 8s 5G and the lately launched Redmi Be aware 11T 5G. This processor is matched with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. You’ll be able to broaden storage utilizing a microSD card, however that comes at the price of the second Nano-SIM due to the hybrid slot.

The Lava Agni 5G homes a 5,000mAh battery and comes with a 30W charger within the field for quick charging. It helps Bluetooth 5.1, dual-band Wi-Fi, twin 5G, and 4G VoLTE connectivity.

The Agni 5G is simply out there in Fiery Blue

 

By way of software program, the Agni 5G runs inventory Android 11 and it was working the October Android safety patch. The telephone comes with a number of Google apps and Fb preinstalled. The UI feels primary however is simple to navigate, talking of which, you may select between conventional three-button navigation and swipe gestures. Lava has carried out a function it calls Duraspeed, which is claimed to spice up app efficiency by limiting background apps from consuming sources. All options are clubbed into an “Clever help” part within the Settings app. This part additionally has a Excessive-speed Refresh toggle for the 90Hz refresh price, which ought to have been within the Show part for ease of use.

Lava Agni 5G efficiency

The Lava Agni 5G supplied snappy efficiency and will multitask between totally different apps with out slowing down. The show has good viewing angles and the only bottom-firing speaker is loud sufficient to take pleasure in watching content material on the telephone. With the excessive refresh price enabled, scrolling gave the impression to be lots smoother. The side-mounted fingerprint scanner was slightly troublesome to arrange, however by no means gave me bother when unlocking the Agni 5G. The face recognition function, which the corporate calls “Face ID”, was additionally fast to unlock the smartphone.

After testing the Redmi Be aware 11T 5G lately, I had a good thought of how the MediaTek Dimensity 810 performs, and I ran a number of benchmarks to see how the Lava Agni 5G compares. Within the AnTuTu benchmark, the Lava Agni 5G managed to attain 380,697 factors. It additionally scored 570 and 1,648 factors in Geekbench’s single-core and multi-core assessments respectively. These are greater than the scores of the Redmi Be aware 11T 5G. In graphics benchmark GFXBench, the Lava Agni 5G managed 51fps and 13fps in T-Rex and Automotive Chase assessments respectively.

The quad-camera setup on the Lava Agni 5G features a 64-megapixel major digicam

 

I performed Battlegrounds Cellular India on the Lava Agni 5G and it defaulted to HD graphics and Excessive body price presets. The sport ran at these settings with none stutter. I performed for 20 minutes and noticed a 4 p.c drop within the battery stage. The telephone was barely heat to the contact after gaming. If you’re on the lookout for a smartphone on this worth phase to sport on, the Lava Agni 5G does have the {hardware} to run fashionable titles.

As for battery life, the Lava Agni 5G simply lasted past a day and a half with my utilization. In our HD video loop take a look at, the telephone went on for 14 hours and 48 minutes whereas the show refresh price was set at 90Hz. Charging time is appropriate with the provided 30W charger. It bought the telephone to 46 p.c in half-hour and 86 p.c in an hour.

Lava Agni 5G cameras

The Lava Agni 5G has a quad-camera setup consisting of a 64-megapixel major digicam, a 5-megapixel ultra-wide angle digicam, a 2-megapixel depth sensor, and a 2-megapixel macro digicam. For selfies, it has a 16-megapixel entrance shooter. The digicam app on the Agni 5G was simple to make use of and had all of the totally different capturing modes properly laid out. It has fast toggles for AI scene detection, HDR, and filters. Do word that the telephone watermarks photographs by default, so you may must disable this to keep away from it in your photographs.

The Lava Agni 5G was fast to detect what it was pointed in direction of and likewise enabled HDR mechanically when required. Weirdly, it shoots photographs on the full 64-megapixel decision by default, which ends up in 25MB recordsdata for every shot. Photographs taken in daylight had been good as is, however magnifying them revealed a watercolour-like impact. Photographs taken in brilliant environment had aggressive HDR. After switching to the 16-megapixel decision I did see some enchancment within the output. The ultra-wide angle digicam’s efficiency was simply common – color tone was barely off in comparison with the first digicam, and it didn’t seize the identical stage of element.

Lava Agni 5G daylight pattern (faucet to see full measurement)

Lava Agni 5G daylight ultra-wide angle pattern (faucet to see full measurement)

 

Shut-up pictures fared higher and had good element. The Agni 5G by no means wanted a second try and lock focus. It additionally added a delicate blur to the background. Unusually, the Lava Agni 5G additionally takes portrait pictures on the full 64-megapixel decision by default, and would require you to manually swap to a decrease decision as soon as once more. Portrait pictures had good edge detection however the background blur was too aggressive. Fortunately, you may tone it down earlier than taking a shot.

Lava Agni 5G close-up pattern (faucet to see full measurement)

Lava Agni 5G portrait pattern (faucet to see full measurement)

Lava Agni 5G macro pattern (faucet to see full measurement)

 

Macro pictures taken with the devoted digicam had satisfactory element, however it’s restricted to 2 megapixels in decision.

Lava Agni 5G low-light pattern (faucet to see full measurement)

Lava Agni 5G Evening Mode pattern (faucet to see full measurement)

 

Low-light pictures had first rate element however shadows did seem grainy. Photographs shot in Evening mode had been brighter and grain was beneath management. The telephone takes about 3-4 seconds to seize a photograph on this mode.

Selfies from the 16-megapixel digicam had been good. In daylight the telephone managed to seize particulars very properly however the picture did seem smoothened. Lowlight selfies with a lightweight supply close by turned out properly.

Lava Agni 5G low-light selfie pattern (faucet to see full measurement)

Video recording tops out at 2K and 1080p for the first and selfie cameras respectively. Footage taken with the first digicam in daylight in addition to at night time wasn’t stabilised. It was shaky, however the high quality general was acceptable.

Verdict

Lava has been launching smartphones sporadically over the previous few years, and the Agni 5G is its newest providing. The Agni 5G is properly geared up, with {hardware} that places it on par with the competitors at this worth level. The 90Hz show is clean, and the only speaker is loud sufficient to take pleasure in watching movies with. I discovered its efficiency to be satisfactory for the worth it instructions. Battery life wasn’t the perfect I’ve seen at this worth level however this telephone will nonetheless final past a day fairly simply.

The Agni 5G falls quick with its cameras. The output is common, and movies aren’t stabilised. It additionally takes photographs at 64-megapixels by default which is able to replenish the interior reminiscence in a short time when you do not discover and alter that.

For those who’re keen to bear with this stage of digicam efficiency, you may go for the Lava Agni 5G. Nevertheless, earlier than you do this, I would recommend you check out the Realme 8s 5G (Assessment) and the brand new Redmi Be aware 11T 5G (Assessment) as properly.