Lenovo™ brings speed and smarter features to new 5G mobile gaming phone
The mobile gaming scene is heating up with a bigger selection of titles and 5G enabling super-fast speeds in more places for all-out gaming adrenaline. If your smartphone isn’t packed with enough power for modern mobile gaming, you deserve a better handheld Android™ gaming experience. Enter Lenovo Legion.
Three years after the launch of our beloved gaming sub-brand, Lenovo introduces the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel—the powerful, immersive and fast-charging smartphone with sub-6 5G for better coverage and tested speeds up to 2.52 Gb/s. It’s created specifically for on-the-go gamers passionate about high performance and who prefer the comfort and convenience of playing entirely in horizontal mode. Even while emailing or texting, you won’t need to switch from a gaming-centric landscape mode to portrait mode, thanks to six specially customized gaming themes. For example, the home mode allows you to project and play on a connected external monitor using a keyboard and mouse.
Designed from scratch with impressive gaming capabilities and an optimized battery lasting up to a full day of average phone usage, the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel isn’t just a new smartphone with a few gaming add-ons, it plays like a mobile gaming console. Get the full functionality, ergonomic feel and pocket portability of a smartphone without the chunky function controls. Its virtual joystick and dual ultrasonic trigger buttons are embedded, and dual haptic engines provide life-like feedback for deeper gameplay immersion.
Lenovo is amongst the first to feature the next-level, flagship Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 865 Plus Mobile Platform that delivers revved-up performance across the board for incredibly-fast Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite Gaming™, plus global 5G support. For enhanced power efficiency, get advanced 5th gen memory chips, up to 16GB LPDDR5 high capacity RAM or the optional 12GB configuration, and ample storage up to 512GB UFS 3.1.
Designed for blur-free animations via a 6.65-inch Full HD (2340 x 1080) AMOLED glass touchscreen display with 144Hz refresh rate for videos and gaming images so colourful and sharp, you’ll think twice if it’s real life. The Lenovo Legion Phone Duel’s 240Hz touch sampling rate will also make you wonder how you ever put up with time lags before.
High capacity 5000mAh battery life thanks to dual 2500mAh batteries placed in gamer’s grip areas on either side of the central logic board.
A SHARED MISSION
Gaming on a smartphone can be very resource-intensive. With this in mind, the Lenovo Legion mobile gaming engineers and designers worked with the gaming community to prioritize their most valued product attributes. Turns out, many mobile gamers agree with PC players on the must-have features, such as, balanced performance, reliable stamina, and immersive features that get your heart racing. The trick with packing as much performance and power as you can into a smartphone that fits in the palm of your hand is that those internals are going to heat up. The question was how to keep everything cooler for the gamer. Having already met the challenge of employing smarter thermals, incredible performance and more in the lineup of high-powered Lenovo Legion PCs earlier this year, the Lenovo Legion team was well-positioned to deliver on mobile and PC gamers’ shared needs. Read on to learn more about the clever techniques used on our new gaming phone.
CHARGED UP, COOL AND CLEAR
By inventing advanced methods to better dissipate heat with dual liquid-cooling and copper tubes, plus moving the dual 2500mAh batteries off to the sides where gamers’ hands would rest (vs. forcing them to touch the warm logic board encasing the processor), Lenovo made the handset easier to hold while also extending gameplay without the fear of overheating.
A convenient centre charging port means your cord won’t get in the way while catching a battery boost when gaming in landscape mode. Full 90W Turbo Power Charging takes both charging cords (from centre and side ports) to power up both batteries for a combined total of 5000mAh. Go from zero to up to 50 per cent power in only 10 minutes, and a full charge only takes 30 minutes.
Speakers tuned by Dirac AudioTM software technology for a surprising 3D stereo sound experience.
Enhance the mad gaming skills you already have with better audio for clearer situational battle cues in-game, so you can react even faster to the footsteps behind you. It’s made possible with dual front-facing stereo speakers with large 1.4cc acoustics chambers for amazing far-reaching sound quality—engineered for you to crank up the volume up to six decibels loud.
Pair that with the virtual gamepad controls for touch and move simulations thanks to the Lenovo Legion Assistant. Near-instant, dynamic and multi-layered haptic vibrations from specialized engines in the phone simulate the feel of in-game hits. A built-in gyroscope sensor optimizes your sense of motion by changing your in-game point-of-view 360-degrees whenever the phone is rotated on its horizontal axis—or in other words, it allows the image on-screen to move when you move your phone by detecting your hands’ motions. It’s not only ideal for controlling your character’s actions in first-person shooters but can also enhance the feeling of role-playing games, or your favourite racing title since it analyzes directional audio signals, such as where your racecar is hit, to provide a more tactile gaming experience.
LIGHTS, CAMERA — CAPTURE
Designed to offer gamers better grip, the phone feels solid at 236 grams (8.32 ounces) and is 10.12 mm (0.39 in) at its thickest point. Turn heads and show off your passion for gaming in a high-octane red or cool blue with programmable RGB lighting effects for Lenovo Legion’s recognizable “Y” icon and the back of its pop-up selfie camera. Lights can also be programmed to dynamically change depending on in-game effects for a more immersive experience.
Just one use of the mobile broadcasting features will have YouTube™ and Twitch™ channel streamers ditching their cumbersome home recording studios for good. Four noise-cancelling microphones record audio from all around to allow live streamers to easily record themselves at eSports events and other busy environments.
With the phone’s customized software dashboard called Lenovo Legion Realm, wherever gamers are, they can tweak hardware performance settings, scroll through the latest downloadable titles in Google Play™, and select the enabled network that gives you the best quality and/or least traffic in that moment, i.e. WLAN, 5G, or Wi-Fi 6, to help reduce video and in-game latency.
apture general HD 1080p footage and record in 4K at up to 30 FPS (frames per second) for remarkable clarity with a high-powered 20MP front camera that stays tucked inside bezel when not live streaming for a clean look, also features auto-retract drop protection. Plus, a high resolution 64MP rear camera for 64MP resolution photos, which also has a quad pixel sensor for shooting high-quality, ultrawide 16MP resolution photos in dark and bright conditions.
To self-record, your voice and reactions as you play, simply wake the built-in front camera while gaming to simultaneously record and overlay your image on-screen. This feature is compatible with popular streaming apps. With a multiple video lens, anyone can host a streaming channel. You can remove the background and use AI to auto-enhance your image via our selfie editor featuring several unique retouching filters and correction options for adding a sense of style. At launch, users can auto-enhance images with our programmed adjustments for a more balanced appearance, and later via a phone update, this feature will also allow users to adjust filter settings to their liking (up to 100 levels of varying intensity), before sharing stylized clips. The device also supports application of fun Google AR stickers called Playground “Playmoji” and is compatible with most augmented reality (AR) headsets.
With the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel, as soon as a gamer ends a session, you can review all the gaming highlights on-the-fly via a preview screen, so all you need do is select, then merge recorded clips together if desired, before easily sharing with others.
And if you’ve just knocked out a tough enemy in a game but forgot to hit record— fear not, just use a finger to slide your right ultrasonic trigger key to the left to go back in time to relive hero moments and instantly reversely-record what just happened to share proof of your victory with battle mates, fans and friends.
