The range offers some exciting features, though the true highlight of the new range is the Phab 2 Pro that will be the first consumer device to support with Google’s Tango technology.
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At Lenovo’s second Tech World event in San Francisco, the company announced the world’s first Project Tango based phablet, the Lenovo PHAB2 Pro. With Lowe’s Vision, customers will be able to control a new generation of augmented reality tools with a mere tap of the finger. Players will help guide a cubelike creature called the Adventurer around real-world environments captured by the phone’s camera.
While we wait for confirmation either way, might we recommend watching the video below to see how you Tango works on a smartphone, we also dare you to keep your jaw up, because we struggled to.
About the development of Tongo, a Lenovo vice president who oversaw development of the Tango device, Jeff Meredith says, “this has a chance to become pervasive because it’s integrated into a device that you already have with you all the time – and you aren’t going to have to walk around a mall wearing a headset.”
Project Tango also enables superimposed reality onto screens. Incredibly designed with Google Tango inside, the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro would want you to go and get it soon.
But Lenovo has nevertheless brought the technology to the smartphone market for the first time. The Phab Plus Pro is that phone, coming in at $499 – The Phab 2 and Phab 2 Plus are $199 and $299 respectively. To recreate the real-world digitally the device captures more than 250,000 measurements and has four different cameras.
The simplest explanation for Tango is that it gives the Phab 2 Pro the ability to sense depth, which allows the handset to map out a physical space, track objects and then project virtual objects into the space.
Project Tango is a product of Google’s X Lab, where its driverless vehicle concept and internet-signal carrying weather balloon were also born. To power Tango, the Phab 2 Pro has a 16MP RGB camera, a depth-sensing camera, and a motion-tracking camera.
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Other creature comforts include dual SIM slots, a fingerprint reader, a front-facing eight megapixel camera with f/2.2 aperture lens, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, triple-array active noise cancellation and Dolby Atmos audio technology – all powered by a 4,050mAh battery. A Tango-enabled app created by home improvement company Lowe’s will let users make such decisions using their Phab 2 Pro phones. All three phones will release in September but United Kingdom costs or exact dates of availability aren’t available yet.
