Only a year into making phones, China’s LeEco (formerly Letv) are progressing at some speed. LeEco’s claim to fame were its first three launches around this time last year, which were the first Android phones to have USB Type-C ports on them.
Fast forward to 2016, we’re witnessing the next-generation of all three of the models — the Le 2, Le 2 Pro and the Le 2 Max. Let’s talk about the Le 2 here for a bit.
Like the Le 1 and the Le 1s, the Le 2 is a fairly affordable phone at 1099 Yuan, or $170 in China. The phone is fairly well spec’d, headlined by the 10-core MediaTek Helio X20 chipset.
Besides that, the Le 2 has 3GB of RAM, 32GB of on-board storage, and a 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080p camera. Quite clearly, LeEco haven’t gone overboard with powerful internals on this, making the Le 2 a perfect successor to the Le 1 of last year.
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The rear camera gets a bit of a bump too, which now stands at 16 mega-pixel compared to 13 mega-pixel of last year’s Le 1. It will be very interesting to see how this shooter fares, for we all remember how impressive the camera performance of the Le 1 was.
Moving on, there’s an 8 mega-pixel camera on the front of the phone, and a 3000mAh battery powering it all. Needless to say, a fingerprint sensor finds its way onto the back of the phone as well.
Speaking of the back of the device, this bunch of LeEco phones is the first to feature the new LE logo. Another first is that the Le 2, Le 2 Pro and the Le 2 Max don’t support 3.5mm headphone jacks anymore; the port has been ditched for the new and advanced USB Type-C digital audio output.
There’s more, if you thought the Le 2 was good value for money; the company will also ship a pair of IEMs (in-ear monitors) and a pair of over-the-ears with the phones. These adhere to LeEco’s own Continual Digital Lossless Audio standard.
Shut up and take my money !
Same here , no microSD, there is an IR sensor. Very nice price though.
http://www.lemall.com/le_2.html?alys_id=head
FDD-LTE: B1/3/7
TDD-LTE:38/39/40/41
Really Helio X20 with World-mode Modem lacking B20 ?
Good job troll.
The bands are a choice nothing to do with the SoC.They cover China with this version and that’s that. At that price nobody can waste money and support more bands than they need to. If they release other versions for other markets, remains to be seen..
Troll you are saying? Do you think this website was meant for chinese readers? Of course I am eager to know if this phone will support all LTE bands in my country in Europe.
You said “Really Helio X20 with World-mode Modem lacking B20 ?”
To make such a comment one has to be either clueless or a troll. I assumed you are trolling.
If i was wrong, i apologize. The SoC has no blame here. A SoC supports certain technologies, like FD-LTE, TD-LTE, CDMA2000 and so on.This SoC does support everything out there. If a technology is supported, it can support any band but the device maker decides what bands to support. Each modem does have a limitation on how many bands . Anyway, the device maker can decide to support any bands it needs too.and in high end they might support lots of bands for people that travel but covering all bands in use globally is not doable yet.
In mid range nobody can afford to support extra bands as it adds to costs and it is better to make different versions.
He said it as a question, the ? was the clue.
lol
hey whats with the ditching of the jack , @realjjj:disqus and @balcobomber25:disqus … also , stop bickering like little kids u 2!
Yup it was nice at the beginning having then at each other now is mehh. Hahaha. “” LET THE TROLLING GAMES BEGIN””
The Helio X20’s modem doesn’t lack band 20, the phone itself does. Every modem from Mediatek has full support for every network in the world, but it is still up to each phone manufacturer to support those bands. This is a LeEcco problem not a Mediatek problem.
no micro sd , means … 32 gb SHOULD be enough for GAMES !
For games may be, but it’s not enough for power users like me.
what do u use the storage for ?
Local apks, movies, pics also I’m installing multiple Roms on the phone using the DualBoot app.
hmm … then u need 128 GB phones :p
hah Yes! 😛
woooooooooow amazing
OMG !
love this … !
but wth LECO ! why u hate headphone jack ?! i would like to request a few experts to speculate on the ditching of the headphone jack … is it advantageous for the PCB ? the Mobile IC ?
The price is incredible, that means around $200 retail price, but I’ll pass this phone because of the average battery. Waiting for the Oukitel K6000 Premium.
We all are my man!!! My only gripe could be the camera department but hopefully they won’t blow it.
This China site has some pic sample if you scroll way down http://www.anzhuo.cn/review/p_11249
Im not exited till I see a real world photo with the display powered on… Last years LeEco smartphones looked completely retarded with that gigantic black edge around the whole display.
If they managed to get that right this year this could be nice competition for the Redmi Note 3 (though I personally still prefer SD-card, headphone jack and 4000mAh over the faster SOC… a SD650 is fast enough anyways)
Here you go http://www.mobilegeeks.de/artikel/leeco-le-2-und-le-2-pro-im-hands-on-video/
Genau wie erwartet… Trotzdem danke für den Link 😉
I have the Le 1S and it has a crap OS. It would be the same in this new phone.
Great to see so many new phones coming out at lower prices than last year. This will put real pressure on companies like Samsung, Sony, HTC and Huawei to start offering better value for money in order to remain competitive.
Looks good, great price too, I might consider any of the leco recent releases, if the camera is good.
I was waiting for this phone, but no 3,5mm audio jack i’m not too excited about.
Don’t know how convenient that audio adapter is going to be, but i use my headhpones everyday om my current phone.