Priced at $499, the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro will start shipping as soon as August this year and will be available globally starting September. Other modles include the Phab 2 and Phab 2 Plus, both of which also have 6.4 inch screens, but which lack the Tango camera setup, have lower-resolution displays, and feature MediaTek processors rather than Qualcomm chips. It has a total of four cameras.
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Project Tango is a product of Google’s X Lab, where its driverless vehicle concept and internet-signal carrying weather balloon were also born.
Lenovo Phab 2 Pro Smartphone: Lenovo a Chinese multinational technology company with headquarters in Beijing has Flagship smartphone at the LWT 2016 (Lenovo Tech World) event that was held in San Francisco. With AR and VR as one of the key highlights, the phablet features an 8-megpaixel front facing camera, a 16-megpaixel RGB camera, a motion camera and a depth sensing camera.
It will be available globally from September, although there’s no news on a United Kingdom specific price or release date yet.
Google has suggested Project Tango could be used in stores – devices could guide users through aisles to specific products, and then to cashiers by mapping “check out” signs.
For example, Project Tango devices could guide a user to the right platform in a subway station using contextual and positional awareness, Meredith said.
Moreover, the Vice president and GM of Android and Chrome Computing at Lenovo, Jeff Meredith, said that the Phab 2 Pro has been created to provide improved user experience to all their customers by utilizing Project Tango’s motion sensor technology. For instance, if a customer is shopping for a new bed, Tango AR technology allows them to view their bedroom through their phone while visualizing different options of virtual furniture in the space. It is reported that the Phab 2 Pro device will guide the customers with all the small locations inside any building, which generally other navigational systems are incapable of doing. It also packs Dolby Atmos technology and delivers Dolby 5.1 audio capture.
The back of the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro. According to The Verge Phab 2 Pro already welcome 25 apps on Tango, and it is expected to raise up to 100 this year-end.
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Specs wise, the phone has a massive 6.4-inch Quad HD display, an octa-core processor, 64GB internal storage and 4GB of RAM.
