Lenovo hope 2014 will be the year that their smartphone business will finally take off and it’s the flagship Lenovo Vibe Z with Snapdragon 800 processor and LTE which they hope will grab headlines for them.
Already launched here in China, CES is the first time the Lenovo Vibe Z has ventured out of it’s homeland. The LTE equipped phone boasts impressive specs which include a 5.5-inch full HD display, 2GB RAM, 13 mega-pixel main camera with f1.8 aperture and 3000mAh battery.
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Lenovo Vibe Z hands on at CES
Although it is exciting to see Lenovo’s flagship smartphone outside of China, more so since the price is though to be just $550, we can’t help but think the design of the phone is rather underwhelming, ugly even! And that Lenovo’s ROM builders might have been influenced from Xiaomi’s MIUI ROM!
Still it is a great phone for the price, but is it enough to grab the attention which Lenovo crave?
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$550 lenovo crazy ?
micro sd?
The standard UI colors are its greatest aesthetic flaw imo and it can be fixed; icons imo should be smaller on a 5×5 or 6×6 grid since the 5.5 inch screen makes large icons look cartoonish and unprofessional. The initial screenshots showed a brown exterior that didn’t appeal to me, but I like the appearance of the black version. Given a bit of work I think this phone could actually be quite good looking and its specs (especially the unique f/1.8 aperture) are awesome. Just hope the western version will have 4G and ac wifi and (twirl thumbs) optical image stabilization.