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What’s the story? It’s not often you see a budget phone that can take on rivals three times the price, but that’s what the Lenovo P2 is all about. It has one of the biggest batteries ever seen in a phone: a mammoth 5100mah unit that lasts two and a half days rather than just one and a bit.

ere’s a lot else to like: 32GB storage is double the budget norm, and the snappy fingerprint scanner on the front can be used to control the phone, nudging out the soft keys. Even the screen is great. is is one of the few sub-£200 phones with an AMOLED display,

which will beat any LCD for contrast. At 5.5in and 1080p, it’s also big and sharp. Is it any good? is isn’t a basic plastic phone either. e Lenovo P2 has a metal frame, and despite that giant battery it’s not too thick, at 8.3mm.

e one minor stumble is that the Snapdragon 625 processor is shown up slightly when you load up a high-end game like Asphalt 8. But you can always tone down the graphics a bit if the frame-rate hitches get on your nerves. Oh, and the phone runs old Android 6.0.1, although a 7.0 update is slowly making its way around the world.

ere are no big complaints, really. e 13MP camera is on a par with a bunch of the better budget phone cameras: good if not amazing. We’ll happily take the odd niggle for a phone with a great screen, metal build and that amazing battery life.

TECH SPECS

● 5.5in 1920x1080 Super AMOLED

● Android 6.0.1

● Octa-core Snapdragon 625

● 4GB RAM

● 13MP rear, 5MP front

● 5100mah

● 32GB, microsd

● 153x76x8.3mm, 177g

Having an OLED screen means the parts of the screen that need to be black can be really, really black rather than Lcd-style dark grey. is phone comes with a potent 24W charger so its huge battery doesn’t take a week to recharge. You get 10 hours’ worth in 15 minutes. BACK IN BLACK FUEL’S GOLD £199 TEST WINNER