Lenovo is breaking into the gaming smartphone market with a gaming phone of its own. The Lenovo Legion phone was announced earlier in December last year, and now it’s available for pre-booking in China. Its listing showed core specifications and features but didn’t have any attached images. It has now been updated to include previews of the device.
It wouldn’t be a gaming smartphone if it didn’t have a gaming aesthetic to match, and the Lenovo Legion Gaming Phone Pro delivers. It has a rugged textured back, speculated to be carbon fiber. A blazing red ‘Legion’ logo is painted horizontally, with two textured halves facing each other. Two cameras are mounted on the center of the shell, which appears to be RGB lit, in addition to the geometric, fractal pattern that originates from the middle.
Around the front, the bezels are lined with the same red accent, and you can make out trigger buttons meant for more immersive gaming residing on both sides of the frame. The display is uninterrupted and edge-to-edge because Lenovo has mounted the front-camera on a motorized pop-up module.
That covers the design, and now for the hardware details. Stretching 6.67” corner-to-corner is a gorgeous AMOLED panel that delivers an FHD+ resolution at a truly extreme 144Hz refresh rate. Expect lightning fast performance out of its Snapdragon 865+ processor, a jaw-dropping 16GB of next-gen LPDDR5 RAM, and 512GB of UFS 3.1 native storage.
Speculation has it that the Legion is equipped with a 5,000 mAh battery that supports bleeding-edge 90W fast charging technology. To keep the internals from heating, it uses dual liquid cooling and features the best-in-industry speakers. The cameras on the back have a 64MP primary camera and a 16MP ultra-wide combination. The Lenovo Legion Pro is scheduled to launch on July 22. It’ll be powered by a newly-minted LegionUI, built on Android 10.