With a growth of 24.5 per cent over the previous year, Lenovo Group captured 7.7 per cent of market share by units sold while the market grew by only 3.7 per cent. Lenovo lately has launched a series of smartphones like K5, K5 PLUS, ZUK Z1, Moto G4 Moto G4 Plus, Moto G Turbo, Moto X Play and their advanced versions.
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To refresh, the new Moto E3 is powered by a Mediatek SoC with quad-core 1.0GHz processor, and sports a 5-inch HD display. Lenovo had announced the Moto E3 back in July and now the company might unveil the smartphone in India at an event on 19 September. Motorola, which is Lenovo’s subsidiary behind the device also has increased the size of battery to 2,800mAh which is decent considering the size of the phone’s screen and type of processor it packs in.
Having a Xenon flash instead of the LED used by many smartphone cameras provides greater illumination. It also carries a 5-megapixel camera on the front. But specification-wise it is closer to Moto G3.
Moto Z Play is the third member of the recently launched Moto Z line. For graphics it has a Adreno 306 GPU. There is an 8-megapixel rear-facing shooter and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera on board. It includes 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage that can be further expanded via provided MicroSD card slot.
Alongside, is a 3.5mm audio jack which was absent in the siblings, and as well is a water-repellent nano-coating.
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The handset comes featured with 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, A-GPS, and Micro-USB connectivity options. Even though it offers only android 6.0 out of the box, the stock version of android could soon receive the upgrade to the latest Android Nougat considering that the phone has enough power to handle the requirements. Moreover it is a dual SIM smart phone. As its name suggest it is going to be equipped with slightly large I, e 3500mAh battery capacity. Verizon will be launching it as the Moto Z Play Droid Edition with a lower price-$408 with a $17 monthly fee beginning on September 8.
