Lava Agni 2 5G: Best Phone under ₹20,000?

The homegrown Indian brand Lava has probably set a new benchmark for phones under ₹20,000 in India. Once the smartphone market under ₹20k was flooded by Xiaomi and Realme phones and no other brand could compete with the value for money they offered but now the time has changed and these two brands are particularly focusing on ₹20k - ₹30k price bracket which is more profitable for them and want their user to shift in this price bracket which has left a gap under ₹20k price bracket with mediocre phones and Lava has taken its chance to shake things up.

Let's start with specs first -

•  Display - 6.78 inches, 1080 X 2400 pixels, AMOLED panel with 120Hz refresh rate and HDR 10+ support with 950 nits of peak brightness. The display is quite nice but is too much saturated hence I would suggest you to change the setting to vivid mode. And the display itself is curved on both sides which we have seen mostly on premium phones. But the problem of accidental touches also exists.
• Performance - The device is powered by Mediatek Dimensity 7050 which is actually rebranded version of Mediatek Dimensity 1080, which is decent performer for a midrange device. It is paired with 8GB RAM which is uncommon at this price range, most devices have 6GB RAM at this price range.
• Camera's -                                                                                                                                  Primary camera is of 50MP lens which takes good shots and then there is 8MP ultrawide lens and two 2MP rubbish useless cameras. Overall the camera performance is decent.        Front camera is 16 MP which is okaish for the price.
• Battery -  4700 mAh with pretty fast 66W wired charging.
• Software -  Launched with Android 13 and will get Android updates.
• All the important 5G bands are also available and there is no cost cutting on sensors as all necessary sensors are available.

Summary - 

Overall the specs are great for the price, everything is good or decent for the price. The build quality is really impressive, it doesn't feel at all like a mid range or budget phone. Most people will think it is a proper flagship phone with frosted glass design and curved front display. The display is also quite immersive. Performance is also quite good for the price especially with the 8GB RAM and bloat free Stock Android skin, the performance is pretty smooth. Camera's are also pretty decent for the price and battery life is good and that fast charger included in box is cherry on top. There are some bugs with ambient light sensor which is unable to maintain proper brightness on the screen, and the screen is to much saturated so better change the setting to vivid mode. And one thing to note it is it doesn't have a headphone jack, so keep in mind before buying this smartphone. And one more little con with this device which I felt was single bottom firing speaker which is decent but I feel that it should have been a dual speaker.

I think the LAVA Agni 2 has unparallel build, display. software experience for the price. So if these thing are your main priority then you need to seriously look at this phone.