Live today at the annual IFA trade fair in Berlin, Lenovo announced a brand new smartphone that aims to attract tablet and smartphone buyers at the same time. Lenovo PHAB and PHAB Plus come with huge screens approaching 7 inches and blend the lines between the two screens. phablet It’s like Galaxy Note 5 and a real Android tablet. All for about $300.
One of these two new phones actually surfaced late last month, but today Lenovo has officially revealed all the details and unveils this massive mid-range smartphone offering. Read on for everything you need to know about this super-sized 6.8-inch smartphone.
The Galaxy Note 5 is big, and Google’s own 6-inch Nexus 6 was a pretty big smartphone, but none compare to any that have just been released by Lenovo. The company hopes that the Lenovo PHAB and PHAB Plus will be a single device for owners that can handle all the tasks.
on the show and on the main smartphone (or phablet) the company aims to deliver this holiday season. So what makes PHAB Plus so great? Impressive size and features all for under $300.
Lenovo’s new PHAB Plus features a giant 6.8-inch 1920 x 1080p Full HD (no 2k) display and a powerful octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor with 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, a micro SD slot and much more. it comes with. It basically aims to take over tablet and smartphone tasks at the same time. Here is the full summary.
As you can see, it’s certainly not an extremely high-end smartphone, but it still packs plenty of power, especially considering its $299 target price point. Lenovo has introduced a new one-handed mode for ease of use, which we’ve seen from Samsung and other big-screen manufacturers.
PHAB Plus looks huge
Unfortunately, this impressive $299 smartphone doesn’t seem to be coming to North America just yet, at least, but it could be at a later date. Lenovo has not announced its availability, but we will learn more details soon.
There’s also a regular Lenovo PHAB with an even larger 6.98-inch display, but with only 720p resolution, which is pretty low considering the screen size. It also comes equipped with a slower quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, only 16GB of storage (micro-SD support). mAh battery. While this one straddles the line between smartphone and tablet, they are a budget option and should retail for under $200.
Both the new Lenovo PHAB and the more impressive Lenovo PHAB Plus should be available in time for holiday shopping and at extremely low prices. We’ll update as soon as we know more about both of these massive hybrid smartphones.