The Lenovo Phab Plus
The new Lenovo smartphones are weird-looking, weird-manufactured, simply put, weird. Among other announcements, Lenovo randomly showcased new smartphone lines. Not a single one of them will be released in North America.
The Motorola parent company has some peculiar things planned for Europe, China and the Middle East. It’s like they are living in a completely different world.
I don’t like phablets and I don’t understand their appeal. Huge blocks just aren’t my thing.
However, Lenovo is still trying to make this trend popular and the company is embracing phablets like never before.
The base Phab model has a 6.98-inch screen that sports a 1080p display and mid-range specs. Cough up more cash and you’ll get an upgraded Phab dubbed Phab Plus with better innards but a smaller screen. The Phab Plus has a 6.8-inch 1080p display, 2 gigs of RAM and a Qualcomm 615 proc.
Both of them reside on the mid-tier category, performance wise.
The Lenovo Vibe S1
Basically, Lenovo just stretched everything so they can plaster the phablet tag.
Lenovo’s head of PR notes that their new devices will remove the dilemma that usually comes when users want to choose between a smartphone with a big screen and a small tablet. I don’t understand what they are talking about. Nobody, and I mean not a single soul on this planet has this dilemma. You either want a smartphone or a tablet. You don’t lose sleep at night weighing the pros and cons.
But wait, Lenovo being weird doesn’t end here.
Take the Vibe S1. It has two front facing cameras especially designed for selfies. The smartphone’s main sensor is a 8 megapixel camera unit. The second one has 2 megapixels and it’s a depth-sensing camera so selfie aficionados can add all sort of peculiar effects, like bokeh.
However, the Vibe S1 comes with some pretty more-than-decent specs. It features a MediaTek proc, which doesn’t really shout reliable, but you’ll get 3 gigs of RAM and, get this, 160 gigs of storage.
The Lenovo Vibe P1
Wait, there’s more.
A couple of new Lenovo smartphones that feature a pretty cool gimmick are the Vibe P1 and the Vibe P1m – who brands these phones? ‘Cause my 12-year-old cousin could do a better job.
The gimmick is that both smartphones come with a physical switch which the user can use to put the device into a power-saving mode.
Oh, yeah right, they also come with humongous batteries.
- The P1m has a 5.5-inch screen, a 720p display and a 4,000mAh battery!
- The P1 comes with a 5-inch screen, a better 1080p display and a 5,000mAh battery!
What’s the battery life, I wonder?
The P1 also weighs 6.67 ounces. For a smartphone that isn’t light at all.
These new Lenovo smartphones will hit stores in the following months. Unfortunately, for some I guess, North America won’t get its dose of weirdness.
