Performance
Under the hood, the Lenovo K5 Play runs on Android 8.0 Oreo, customized with Lenovo’s ZUI 3.7. The phone is powered by the Qualcomm MSM8937 Snapdragon 430 chipset combined with an octa-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU and Adreno 505 GPU. This hardware configuration is typical for budget smartphones, offering reliable performance for day-to-day apps, browsing, and light gaming. The device is available in two memory configurations: 16GB with 2GB RAM and 32GB with 3GB RAM, both providing basic multitasking capabilities.