Lava Agni 3 Review – Is It the Best Budget 5G Smartphone in 2025?
Before discussing anything about the Lava Agni 3 Review, I would like to give you some information about this company. Lava is an Indian mobile phone company that was founded in 2009. This is the company that focuses on making budget-friendly smartphones. But nowadays, this company is doing an amazing job in the smartphone industry. As everyone knows, in 2023, Lava launched its amazing phone, the Lava Agni 2, which was one of the best smartphones in its price segment. And in 2024, Lava again launched their Lava Agni 3, and again, Lava is doing a great job because this is the best smartphone that comes under 20,000 in India. Today, we are going to talk about this amazing phone so that you can know everything about this phone.
If we talk about Lava Agni 3, then I would like to tell you that it is a premium-looking smartphone that comes with an amazing design. If you take this phone in your hand, I’m 100% sure you would also like it because this phone follows the amazing double display trend. This phone comes with 2 amazing displays, the first one is the main primary display in the front, and the other one is on the left side behind the camera, and this amazing design makes it one of the amazing and premium looking phones out of all the phones that are coming in their price segment.
In this review, we will not just talk about the look of this phone, but we will tell you everything about this phone including its Display, performance, camera, specifications, Battery Life, software & UI, Connectivity, and Additional Features so that you can know it is a good option for you or not.
Agni 3 Design and Build Quality Review
The Lava Agni 3 comes with an amazing design and build quality. If we are talking about the back side of this phone so it comes with a glass back, which makes it more premium and attractive. As well as it also comes with an IP64 rating, which means it can easily handle some dust and little rain or water splashes, but let’s not forget it’s not fully waterproof. So, if you buy this device, I suggest you do not use it in water. If I talk about the weight of this phone, then it is 214.8 grams, so it may seem a bit heavy to you, and the reason for this is that it has a 6.78-inch AMOLED Display on the front, which is protected by Dragon Trail Star 2 protection. And the back side of this smartphone has one more 2D AMOLED multi-functional display. Which makes it a premium and attractive phone in this price segment.
Lava Agni 3 Display Review
Now let’s talk about the Lava Agni 3 display review, and this is also the main highlight and main attraction of this smartphone. As you know, this phone comes with two AMOLED displays, which makes it one of the best and most premium-looking phones around 20,000 rupees. In this Lava Agni 3 display review, we will try to cover everything about both displays.
Main Display
The main display of the Lava Agni 3 is a 6.78-inch curved AMOLED display, which offers vibrant colors and a 120Hz smooth refresh rate, no matter if you like to play games, watch videos and movies, or like use social media for watching content. This phone performs well, its you can enjoy lag-free experiences with Lava Agni 3.
Secondary Display
The secondary display is the main attraction of the Lava Agni 3, and this is the 1.74-inch 2D Multi-functional AMOLED display. This is a small display which is located on the back side of this phone, as you can see in the top picture. This is the screen that allows you amazing shortcut access, just like you see important information without unlocking the phone, and many more features.
The main features of the Agni 3 Secondary display
- See notifications and important messages in this display, but you cannot reply to them.
- Control the rear camera from this display itself, and this is a very good feature, because of this feature, you will be able to click high-quality selfies from the rear camera.
- You can control the music.
- Increase and decrease the volume.
- Access the voice recording option without unlocking your phone.
- Check the time and battery status on this screen.
- You can use a stopwatch.
- Checkout who is calling you, and you can also pick up and hang up the call.
Agni 3 Brightness and Outdoor Visibility
This is the only one part about the display where I felt a very small problem, well, it is not a big or major problem, but a problem is a problem, so I will tell you, the Lava Agni 3 comes with 1200 nits peak brightness. Which is slightly less than other phones coming in this price range. Apart from this, there is no other problem with this display. By the way, this is not a big problem because the screen is clearly visible in this phone during the day and night, but my job is to tell you that is why I am telling you this.
Color Accuracy and Multimedia Experience
Now, at the end, let’s talk about color accuracy and multimedia experience. As you read above, there is no problem with the display of this phone, so if you like watching movies and using social media, then the display of this phone works perfectly. You can enjoy high-quality 4K videos with amazing Color Accuracy with Lava Agni 3.
Lava Agni 3 Processor and Performance Review
Lava Agni 3 comes with an amazing and premium processor that is Dimensity 7300x. If I compare this processor with Lava Agni 2, it is a really good processor. Lava uses this processor with Agni 3 because it supports Dual-Display.
To make this processor more powerful and better for gaming, Lava has used the Mali-G615 GPU in the Agni 3. As well as this processor also supports fast 5G network speeds, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.4 for quick internet and wireless connections. It can also handle camera sensors up to 200 MP and record high-quality 4K videos.
Gaming and Multitasking Performance
In a gaming review of Lava Agni 3, I would like to tell you this phone offers a good and great gaming performance. It can easily handle the most popular games with smooth graphics. Like Lava Agni 3 provides 60 FPS gaming in BGMI, and if you like to play Free Fire, then it provides high-graphic gameplay, so for gamers, this is a really good phone.
With this device, you can play any mobile game without facing any problems. It is able to provide you with smooth and lag-free performance because Lava has given a 5000 mm² vapor cooling chamber in this phone. This vapor cooling chamber is the reason that it runs and handles most of the games smoothly. It also has a gaming boost mode to provide you better and hassle-free gaming experience.
Benchmark Scores (Optional)
If I talk about this phone’s Antutu score, it comes around 681465, as you can see in the picture.
If you don’t know anything about the AnTuTu score, I would like to tell you that it is a score generated by the AnTuTu benchmark app, which measures the performance of a smartphone or tablet.
Why the AnTuTu score is important?
It works as a performance indicator because a higher AnTuTu score means the phone will perform a great job in general tasks like gaming and multitasking. If you are a gamer, I mean, if you like to play games, or are looking for the best gaming phone — then in that case, the AnTuTu score helps you to choose the best gaming device for yourself.
Because the AnTuTu benchmark covers the details of GPU and CPU performance, this helps you to know how heavy the game can handle your device.
Lava Agni 3 Camera Review
Before talking about the actual camera performance of the Lava Agni 3, let’s first look at the on-paper specifications. On paper, the Lava Agni 3 comes with an unexpectedly good camera setup, which includes a 50MP primary Sony sensor that supports Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS). It also has an 8MP ultra-wide sensor with a 112-degree FOV, and an 8MP telephoto sensor offering 3X optical zoom. In the price range of Rs 20,000 to 22,000, this kind of camera configuration is very rare. For selfies, Lava uses Samsung’s 16MP front camera sensor, which is a solid choice.
This is the information that is mentioned on the official product box and online platforms. Now let’s talk about how this camera setup performs in real-life usage.
Lava Agni 3 Main Camera Performance Review
- As I told you, the Lava Agni 3 comes with Sony’s 50MP camera sensor, and in real-world usage, it captures high-quality and amazing images. But, one thing that I noticed about the rear camera, sometimes it clicks average photos. I mean, sometimes the edges of the images become too soft, which doesn’t look good, and at this price, I expected some sharper edge details.
- The camera does a fantastic job of capturing shadow details, which enhances depth and realism in images.
- At the time this phone was launched, there were some software-related issues with the camera – due to these issues, it would click photos with some warm or magenta tones, which looks too much contrast. But after some time, Lava quickly released a major update to fix the camera software issue, and now the phone is able to click pretty good pictures.
- Lava provides a 3X optical zoom sensor in Agni 3, which is rare in this price segment, but still it works well and captures sharp, clear zoomed-in images.
- One unique and amazing feature about the rear camera of this phone is that you can also use the rear camera as a selfie camera through the secondary display. Because of this feature, you can click high-quality selfies.
Lava Agni 3 Selfie Camera Review
- As you read at the top, the Lava Agni 3 features a 16MP front-facing camera with an f/2.0 aperture, and this aperture helps this phone capture better photos in low light conditions.
- In daylight this phone captures good quality selfies. But one suggestion I would like to give you is that if you buy this phone then use the rear camera to capture a good quality selfie, because it captures high-quality and clear photos compared to the selfie camera.
- In low light conditions, this phone can make your face look a bit unnatural due to image processing, especially in portrait mode.
- The selfie camera applies a beauty filter that makes your skin smoother. I think some of users like this type of photo, but not all.
Rear and Selfie Camera Video Review
- With the rear camera, Lava Agni 3 can record 4K videos at 30fps, which is impressive for the price.
- With front selfie camera you can record, 1080p videos at 30 FPS, and I think this could be a drawback for users who want to capture the highest quality videos with the selfie camera.
- At the time this phone was launched users faced sometime frame drops and focus related issues in video mode. But after the software update, these issues were largely resolved, As a result, now it captures much smoother and stable video.
- At night, photography and videography, the phone does a good job, but it still has some focus-related issues in low light, and this isn’t a huge issue because at this price, it can click and record good-quality pictures and videos.
- Although this phone has many good features, but there is one feature that I really liked and you might like it too. The feature is that this phone has a Dual Video Mod, which means you can record video with a selfie and rear camera at the same time. This is a really cool feature if you like to make vlogs, because with this feature you can capture both front and back shots at the same time.
So if you’re a person who wants to purchase this phone to capture high-quality professional photos and video so in that case this is not a good option. But if you’re a person who wants to purchase premium premium-looking phone that works well and takes decent photos, then definitely go for it.
Lava Agni 3 Camera Features
Main Camera Modes:
- Night Mode
- Video
- Photo
- Film Mode
- Portrait Mode
- Beauty Mode
- Slow Motion
Additional Modes:
- Document Correction
- Group Photo
- AI Emoji
- GIF
- Pro Video
- Dual-View Video
- Pro Mode
- Panorama
- UHD
- Time Lapse
- Intelligent Scanning
Lava Agni 3 Battery Review
Lava Agni 3 Battery Capacity and Charging Speed
The Lava Agni 3 comes with a good and solid 5000mAh battery that is designed to last throughout the day. Which is good and is suitable for most users, because it easily lasts a full day. One of the most amazing things about the Lava Agni 3 is that it comes with a 66W fast Type-C to Type-C charger. With this amazing fast charger, you can charge your phone from 0 to 100% in under an hour.
Agni 3 Real-world Usage and Screen-on Time
In regular usage, like web browsing, texting, and watching videos, the phone can easily go from morning to night without charging. And if you are a person who loves to play games or use heavy apps, in that case, you might need to charge this device in the evening, but its 5000 mAh battery is still good for the average user.
Overall, the Lava Agni 3 battery offers a balanced performance, with fast charging. In short, if you want to purchase a phone that is reliable in terms of battery, the Lava Agni 3 does a good job. Surely, you can go for it.
Lava Agni 3 Buttons, Ports, and Connectivity Features
Now let’s talk about the Lava Agni 3 buttons, ports, and connectivity features. First of all, let’s talk about the buttons.
Lava Agni 3 comes with 3 buttons:
- On the right side, this phone has a power on and off button, which has a red-colored symbol on it, which looks quite nice.
- There is another amazing button on the right side of this phone, which Lava named the action button, and it works just like its name.
- On the left side is the button we all like — the volume rocker.
As everyone might know about these two buttons — the volume rocker and power on-off button — but this time Lava has given one additional button in Agni 3 that is called the action button. Although its name sounds like the iPhone’s action button, it doesn’t work like the iPhone’s. Lava has tried to do something different this time, which is really a good thing about Lava, and I really like this button, because it comes with amazing features.
How to use the Lava Agni 3 Action Button:
You will get the option to set the action button of Lava Agni 3 in the mobile settings, and in settings, you will get 3 different types of settings for this button. You can use this button with 3 different clicks:
- Single click
- Double click
- Long press
By using these three options, you can use a variety of features, but the settings of all three clicks are the same. You can:
- Silence/ring your device
- Start recording
- Turn on the flashlight
- Take a screenshot
- Open SOS
Also, this button has one more amazing feature, which I like the most — you can set any of your three favorite applications to it. So, by using this button, you can open your favorite and most-used apps within just a second.
Angi 3 Ports
The Lava Agni 3 has a SIM card tray, microphone, USB Type-C charging port, and speaker grille at the bottom, and another speaker grille and noise-canceling microphone on top.
- This phone comes with a dual nano SIM card tray, but there is no SD card slot.
- The phone has two speaker grilles on the top and bottom sides because it supports Dolby Atmos.
Lava Agni 3 Connectivity Features
The Lava Agni 3 is expected to have all the important connectivity features that people need today.
- RAM: LPDDR-5
- Storage type: UFS 3.1
- 5G support: 14 5G bands
- Wi-Fi: 6E
- Bluetooth: 5.4
- USB Type-C port: For charging and data transfer
Lava Agni 3 UI and Software Review
If I talk about the UI and software experience of the Lava Agni 3, I would like to tell you that this phone comes with a clean UI. I mean that on this phone, you will not see any kind of extra apps, extra games, or advertisements, and this is a very good thing fo that kind of user who loves a clean UI. That’s why I said this phone comes with a clean UI.
It also has some Lava customized settings, like:
- You can customize the action buttons
- You can change the themes and wallpapers
- It includes an X-Axis Linear Motor, which provides amazing vibration feedback during calls, messages, and notifications.
Agni 3 Bloatware and App Experience
As mentioned above, the Lava Agni 3 comes with no bloatware. There are no extra apps, games, or ads pre-installed, which provide you amazing app experience. The UI is simple and user-friendly without unnecessary clutter.
Updates and Security Patch Policy
Talking about the software, the Lava Agni 3 comes with Android 14, and Lava has officially promised:
- 3 years of OS updates
- 4 years of security updates
This is a strong commitment on the part of Lava, which increases the long-term value of this device.
Lava Agni 3 Pros and Cons
Pros
- Smooth performance with MediaTek Dimensity 7050 processor.
- Bright and vibrant AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate.
- Good battery life with fast charging support.
- Premium design and solid build quality.
- Stock Android experience with minimal bloatware
Cons
- The camera struggles a bit in low-light conditions.
- Display brightness could have been better, especially under direct sunlight.
- No charger adapter is included in the box with the base model.
Who Should Buy the Lava Agni 3
Before talking about who should buy the Lava Agni 3, you must read these points given below.
- Performance: Lava Fire 3 is a good phone for average gamers as it offers good gaming performance, it also offers really good speed and performance for multitaskers too, as it comes with a clean UI with a 120Hz smooth refresh rate, which makes this phone good for multitaskers.
- Camera lovers: If you’re a camera lover or someone who likes to click good quality photos and searching for the best Camera phone under 20,000, I would like to tell you this is not a good option for this type of person. It clicks good quality photos, but this is not the best camera phone under 20,000.
- Design and display fans: If you want to buy an amazing, premium-looking phone with a curved display, then surely Lava Agni 3 is one of the best, premium-looking phones around 20,000 with a dual display and glass back.
- Budget-conscious buyers: If you are a budget-conscious buyer, I mean if you are someone who doesn’t want to spend too much money or is looking for the best phone for normal use, then in this case, Lava Agni 3 is the best phone for you.
- Heavy users vs. casual users: if you’re a heavy user, I mean if you would like to play games, watch content, and do any other type of slightly heavier tasks, this is definitely a good phone for you. Now, if you’re a casual user who wants to buy a phone for using normal purposes, just like using social media and any other normal tasks. In that case, this is a really amazing phone for you, and you definitely should buy this phone, because it looks premium and offers amazing performance.
Who Should Buy Lava Agni 3 or Who Should not:
So let’s finally talk about who should buy the Lava Agni 3 and who should not.
Now, first, talk about who should buy this phone.
- If you are someone who wants to buy a powerful and stylish smartphone without spending a lot of money, then this is a really good phone for you.
- Now, if you want to play BGMI, Free-Fire, and other such games, then I would like to tell you that this phone is good for gamers and multitaskers. It runs BGMI at 60 FPS, so as a normal gamer, you should definitely purchase this phone.
Now let’s discuss Who Should not buy this phone.
If you are someone who is looking for the best camera phone under ₹20,000, or if your main purpose is to take professional photos or make high-quality videos, then this phone is not the right choice for you.
Listen, I’m not saying this phone camera is bad. In fact, Actually, I want to tell you that if you want to buy a phone only for taking photos and making videos, then in that case, there are lots of other options available in the market. But if you’re a person who wants to click pictures for memories, or for posting on social media, then this phone is a great option for you. But if your main goal is to use the phone for professional photography or video shoots, then this phone may not meet with your expectations.