[Device Reviews and Information] mkdonald:
CHARGING on its 1.5A

Well this morning from 10am-11am it was down to 1% so connected up its 1.5A charger and it's gone to 28% after c35 minutes with 1h23m left (ie 2hrs to full).

11:36 and now 34% with 1h 18m until full on AC - ie going up c1%/minute.

I had an idea I saw the phrase quick charge on earlier occasion but not today. I'll have to look at the web/video.

That said it's incredibly frugal on battery in the battery saver mode...

Maybe the quick charge is with the phone off at the time ? I'll experiment manana and/or after looking for web/video info re that quick charge you mention.

In the Settings-Battery display tapping the Menu button brings up "Battery Saver" which you can turn on automatically at 15% - 5% - Never. "It turns off automatically when charging".

Info: "Battery Saver... to help improve battery life BS reduces your device's performance and limits vibration and most background data. Email, messaging and other apps that rely on syncing may not update unless you open them. BS turns off automatically when your device is charging."

I've set mine to 15% now

The Settings-Battery display also has a 'Intelligent power saving standby' toggle (defaulted off I think) - not sure what that does/when.

Used the Google My Tracks function this morning on a 5km cycle journey - very detailed/accurate mapping - and used up 48 kcal allegedly :angel:. The maps really shows up advantage of 5.5"/FullHD over my old 4.5"/qHD.

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None that I've noticed, or seen on Specs. Standard Android notification noises of course.

A UI weakness with Dual SIM is that pop-up of SMS for quick reply only has the same SIM line that received on.

Have to go into the full messaging client to be able to choose which SIM to reply on.

But that's what I'd been used to from Android 4.1 days anyway - after all Quick Reply screen can be expected to be condensed.

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As I mentioned the Lollipop provided is a very naked one - eg the notification bar icons are all monochrome/plain which seems so primitive after a highly tailored 4.1 with Xposed/GravityBox etc.

Button wise - if 'Recent' is the on screen showing of recently used Apps then long pressing the central button gives you that, leaving the left button to be a useful (to me) Menu button

re Fingerprint lock

Discovered yesterday evening that reading newspapers and "printers' ink" definitely affect the readability of ones fingerprint, and either I was very clumsy or it doesn't seem to work at all in a dark room. Have to say I hadn't though very much about the fingerprint security and havent followed/investigated the topic at all so no idea how normal "issues" with it in phone world are. That said having registered both my forefingers I was usually able (with lights on) to get in after a few failed attempts, though had to resort to PIN at times and it seems sensible to register more of my digits (max 5).

Video/YouTube/Sound - INITIAL impressions

Watched about 15 mins of decent resolution YouTube videos last night and great picture/synch but the mono speaker on the bottom edge is I think definitely the achilles heal of this phone in terms of any inherent flaws. A decidely lower-fi experience and not overly loud at max. Think the mono speaker on the back of my Lenovo A820 was clearer.