Lenovo Phab 2 Pro Tango-Enabled Smartphone to Sell for $500 in Q3 2016

Project Tango uses computer vision to enable mobile devices to detect their position relative to the world using 3D maps of the world created in real-time using 3D depth cameras. Google and Lenovo had already announced a Tango phone would be launched later this year during CES 2016, and the companies have now officially introduced Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, the world’s first Tango-enabled smartphone, scheduled to start selling worldwide in September for $499 and up.

Lenovo Phab Pro 2 specifications:

• SoC – Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 Tango Edition processor with 4x ARM Cortex A72 cores @ up to 1.8 GHz, 4x ARM Cortex A53 cores, and Adreno 510 GPU
• System Memory – 4GB RAM
• Storage – 64GB flash
• Display – 6.4″ display with 2560×1440 (QHD) resolution
• Audio – Dolby Atmos / 5.1 audio capture via 3 microphones with 360 voice noise-cancelling (Note: How can you record 5.1 audio with only 3 microphones?)
• Cameras
  • 16MP rear camera with fast auto-focus (< 0.3 s)
  • 8 MP front-facing camera
  • Depth camera
  • Motion tracking camera
• Misc – Fingerprint scanner
• Battery – 4,050 mAh with 2.4x turbo charging
• Dimensions – 8.9 mm thick

The phone will obviously run Android, and several Tango apps can already be found – or soon will be – in the Google Play Store such as Lowe’s Home Improvement app capable of showing items for sale in your own living before actually buying them, or take measurements, as well as Phantogeist, Raise or Woorld augmented reality games mixing virtual with reality.

Check out Lenovo’s Tango/Phab 2 Pro product page for more details.

Via Liliputing

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