Lenovo launches gaming phone with “superb” response rate

The Chinese company “Lenovo” launched a new phone dedicated to games, with a response rate it described as “supernatural”.

The specialized technical site, Engadget, stated that the speed of the new Lenovo phone, “Legion Phone Dual 2”, is comparable to the speed of “Xbox” and “Google Stadia”.

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Lenovo supported its new phone with a 720 Hz touch response rate, making it one of the most powerful gaming phones.

The Lenovo phone also comes with eight virtual keys, which are used as “controls” to approximate the feeling of a “gamepad”.

The Eight Triggers include four ultrasound keys for the shoulder, two in the back and two touch points inside the screen.

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This is coupled with a touch sampling rate of 720Hz, which is about twice the response rate of all competing phones.

Lenovo has supplied its phone with a super processor of the type “Snapdragon 888” produced by the American “Qualcomm” company, with an update rate of 144 Hz.

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The phone comes with a pop-up front camera to give the screen more space to play, with an imaging resolution of 40 megapixels, in addition to a 6.92-inch high-resolution touch screen.

The battery of the new Lenovo phone is 5500 mAh, with a fast charging feature of 90 watts.

As for the price of the phone, it will come at a price of 999 euros, equivalent to 1186 US dollars, for a 16-gigabyte “RAM” and 256 gigabyte “internal memory”, and 700 euros, equivalent to 948 dollars for the lower version.

Lenovo is expected to start launching its new phone in China later this April.