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At its Lenovo Tech World event in San Francisco today, Lenovo is pulling the covers off three smartphones under the new Phab2 moniker. One of them, the $499 Phab2 Pro, is the first consumer-oriented smartphone to package up Google’s Project Tango augmented reality (AR) technology. It’s something that Google has been working on with Lenovo for several months.

Lenovo is also launching the $299 Phab2 Plus that features dual 13-megapixel rear cameras, a Fujitsu Milbeaut image signal processor — a component also found in some Leica cameras — and manual mode. Also new today is the $199 Phab2.

These are all big phones — phablets, really, or just phabs — with displays spanning 6.4 inches diagonally. At that size they’ll have more screen real estate than the now retired 5.96-inch Nexus 6, the 5.7-inch Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+, and the 5.5-inch iPhone 6S Plus. (My colleague Evan Blass correctly predicted the size, name, and Tango functionality of the Phab2 Pro in a tweet earlier this week.)

But besides being big, these phones will be able to stand out on the smartphone market by virtue of their AR capability. Only the Phab2 Pro supports Google’s Tango technology, though. It also comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 chip tuned especially for Tango.



Dual-lens cameras are also still a novelty, although they are not without precedent — see Huawei’s P9 for example, and before that, the HTC One M8.

So the real question is whether AR will become the cool new thing for a phone to do out of the box. Lenovo has certainly placed a bet on the technology. As for Google, it has been working on mobile AR for the past four years, but the company has also been advancing mobile virtual reality (VR), first with the Cardboard headset and more recently with the Daydream platform. Interestingly Google did not specifically mention Lenovo when it identified some of the companies working on Daydream-ready phones. Lenovo’s marketing materials say that the Phab2 phones are Daydream-ready.



Still, being the first to productize Tango for the public, not just developers, does count for something. Now would be a good idea to reflect on the fact that Lenovo and Google have some history together. The former bought Motorola Mobility from the latter in 2014. If the Phab2 — particularly the Pro — takes off, that $3 billion deal may end up looking smarter in hindsight.

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At its Lenovo Tech World event in San Francisco today, Lenovo is pulling the covers off three smartphones under the new moniker Phab2. One of them, the $ 499 Phab2 Pro, is the first consumer-oriented smartphone to package up Google's Project Tango augmented reality (AR) technology. It's something that Google has been working on with Lenovo for several months.Lenovo is also launching the $ 299 Phab2 Plus that features dual 14-megapixel rear cameras, a Fujitsu Milbeaut image signal processor — a component also found in some Leica cameras — and manual mode. Also new today is the $ 199 Phab2.These are all big phones — phablets, really, or just phabs — with displays spanning 6.4 inches diagonally. At that size they'll have more screen real estate than the now retired 5.96-inch Nexus 6, the 5.7-inch Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge +, and the 5.5-inch iPhone Plus 6S. (My colleague Evan Blass correctly predicted the size, name, and Tango functionality of the Phab2 Pro in a tweet earlier this week.)But besides being big, these phones will be able to stand out on the smartphone market by virtue of their AR capability. Only the Phab2 Pro supports Google's Tango technology, though. It also comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip 652 tuned especially for Tango.Dual-lens cameras are also still a novelty, although they are not without precedent — see P9 Huawei's for example, and before that, the HTC One M8.So the real question is whether AR will become the cool new thing for a phone to do out of the box. Lenovo has certainly placed a bet on the technology. As for Google, it has been working on mobile AR for the past four years, but the company has also been advancing mobile virtual reality (VR), first with the Cardboard headset and more recently with the Daydream platform. Interestingly Google did not specifically mention Lenovo when it identified some of the companies working on Daydream-ready phones. Lenovo's marketing materials say that the Phab2 phones are Daydream-ready.Still, being the first to productize the Tango for the public, not just developers, does count for something. Now would be a good idea to reflect on the fact that Lenovo and Google have some history together. The former bought Motorola Mobility from the latter in 2014. If the Phab2 — particularly the Pro — takes off, that the $ 3 billion deal may end up looking smarter in hindsight.

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