Designed from the ground up for gamers, the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel plays like a mobile gaming console with impressive virtual tools, gaming capabilities, and an optimized battery lasting up to a full day of average phone usage.3 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 vibration engines provide life-like feedback for deeper gameplay immersion.
Pair that with the virtual gamepad controls for touch and move simulations thanks to the Lenovo Legion Assistant. Near instant, dynamic and surrounding vibration from specialized engines in the phone simulate the feel of in-game hits. A built-in gyroscope sensor detects motion and complex orientation changes, like while watching a 360-degree video, or when your screen view autorotates whenever you rotate your phone on its horizontal axis. Although many Android smartphones have one embedded now, the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel leverages its gyro to optimize the gaming experience for the user, for example, its virtual joystick feature works by moving your thumb around on the screen while playing a game, either to aim or to move players in a new direction.
Lenovo Legion might be the first 5G gaming phone
These in-screen touch signals are mapped to gyro sensors which are continually sending data to the display driver resulting in the smooth rotations and execution of commands in-game. Simply tilt and angle your phone to aim or use it as your steering wheel in your favorite racing title. Further enhancing a more tactile gaming experience are the Audio to Vibration (A2V) features, this tool analyzes audio directional signals for in-game cues to trigger associated stimulations, allowing you to hear and feel sound and vibration from the right if your racecar was hit on that side.
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One might argue that gaming technology evolves faster than most other PC tech, and Lenovo has prepared for the current PC gaming age we find ourselves in - one where we consistently see powerfully massive improvements to graphics cards, storage, processors, memory, and more year by year. So, if your gaming laptop or gaming PC is struggling to keep up with today's fast-paced, modern PC games, look to Lenovo Legion for a long-term upgrade. Lenovo Legion laptops and PCs are more upgradeable than many prebuilt gaming PCs you'll find on the market. We don't solder on as many components as some manufacturers, meaning your Lenovo Legion gaming PC is easier to upgrade over time. So, trade in your old gaming PC and upgrade to the long-lasting power of Lenovo Legion today.
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The Legion Y70 is officially the first Lenovo smartphone with a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset. The flagship is part of the Legion gaming family but comes with more straightforward aesthetics without skimping on top-tier performance.
The manufacturer also claims the phone will be the first to surpass the 600,000 threshold on AnTuTu, something modern Snapdragon 865-powered phones are still struggling - the Mi 10 Pro can go as high as 593,769.
That is the first of many signs that the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel is totally optimized for landscape usage. After all, gaming happens overwhelmingly in landscape mode, and that includes live streaming.
The Lenovo Legion Phone Duel is called the Legion Pro in China, for some reason. It comes with the fastest smartphone processor in the Android realm, a screen with the fastest refresh rate, a huge battery for non-stop gaming, wicked-fast charging technology, and a selfie camera that pops up from the side of the phone.
Lenovo has also included the U-Engine dual X-axis vibration motor that has over 100 types of long vibration patterns and 13 kinds of low-response patterns for an immersive gaming experience. The phone also has a distinctive gamer-ish look to it, thanks to a carbon fiber styling on the rear along with an RGB-backlit Lenovo logo as well as Y-shaped icon.
Lenovo has owned Motorola for several years now, but the company has also continued to sell smartphones under its own name, including gaming phones. The Lenovo Legion Phone Duel 2 arrived last year, and now we have our first look at this year's sequel, thanks to a new leak.
Just like the Legion Phone Duel 2, both devices will have a landscape-first design, with the camera array located in the center of the back casing (so your fingers don't cover it while holding the phone horizontally). There are a total of eight virtual buttons, with four on the shoulders, two on the rear, and two 'force' touch points on the display. The RGB lights are also still around.
Both phones will reportedly be released in the first quarter of 2022. Lenovo also has a different gaming phone in the works, nicknamed the 'Halo,' which is slated for a later release (likely Q3 2022) and looks more like a normal smartphone.
Lenovo, a company more renowned for their business laptops, have been trying to branch into the gaming market for a couple of years. Now, a teaser on Weibo has unveiled plans for a Lenovo Legion gaming phone.
The Lenovo Legion Duel is the first gaming smartphone from the Chinese manufacturer, and boy is it impressive at first glance! Armed with a Snapdragon 865+ chipset, 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM, a 144 Hz AMOLED screen, a dual 5,000 mAh battery, you know that this is a direct competitor to the Asus ROG Phone 3 as it focuses purely on gaming and nothing else.
Armed with a Snapdragon 865+ chipset, a 144 Hz AMOLED display, a generous 5,000 mAh battery, 90-watt fast charging capability, the Lenovo Legion Duel is the designed for mobile gamers. It does not shy itself from being touted as a direct competitor to the Asus ROG Phone 3 which in my opinion, still remains the best gaming smartphone on the market today.
Its camera module is slightly less impressive, although there is the pop-up selfie camera in front that does offer flexibility in photo-taking while moving away from a notch or punch-hole camera design. Overall, the smartphone's design is not the most discreet but then again, it is unashamed about its gaming pedigree. The screen is slightly less responsive with a touch-sampling rate of 240 Hz, which is just a shade less than the ROG Phone 3's 270 Hz.
The smartphone fully embraces its gaming heritage, make no mistake about it. Do not expect even the slightest compromise just so it can cater to being more versatile and used as a daily driver at the office. No, the Lenovo Legion Duel was specially designed for gaming and nothing else. While that might be true, I think I could be perfectly happy with this (for now).
There is nothing at the back that protrudes in an unruly manner, and the double camera module remains recessed. There are hints of subtle notches at both ends of the back to ensure optimal support each time you hold the smartphone in your palms - and these notches come in handy to provide extra grip, especially when your palms are sweaty. In fact, the entire design clearly shows that this handset is meant to be used in landscape mode, making it the perfect orientation for gaming.
Even the selfie camera remains carefully hidden in a pop-up module, and is located on the right-hand side. It pops out once the smartphone is held horizontally, similar to a webcam above a gaming PC's monitor. In addition, this pop-up selfie camera also carries the lock button - a rather strange design in my opinion.
No doubt that the Lenovo Legion Duel is a heavy handset, tipping the scales at 239 grams. It is also a wee bit thicker (9.9 mm) compared to other handsets. However, you would have realized by now that this is not a smartphone that was designed to be a compact model or one that carries a practical form factor. The goal is to optimize one's grip for gaming purposes. On this point alone, I find the design of the Lenovo Legion Duel to be a whole lot more sensible and relevant compared to the Asus ROG Phone 3 or the RedMagic 5S.
One can obviously debate the usefulness of having a 144 Hz refresh rate on any other gaming device apart from a PC. Even more so on smartphones, where only a handful of mobile games are compatible with such a high refresh rate, and these are few and rare to come across in the first place.
The interface is visually close to stock Android, although you can opt for a more aggressive gaming look. You can also access additional customization settings such as changing the LED color at the back of the smartphone or the Always on Display (AOD) setting.
In order to do so, I launched different graphics benchmarks by activating the performance/gaming mode on each smartphone. For each benchmark, I performed each test 3 times by spacing them several minutes apart so that these handsets have adequate time to cool down and deliver the best possible performance.
Compare the graphs below. The performance difference between the first test loop (green curve) and the last loop (purple curve) is significantly greater on the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. This reflects a loss of performance as the gaming session progresses.
On the Lenovo Legion Duel, the two curves remain nearly identical, hence performance is more consistent throughout an intense gaming session. However, both smartphones experienced a fairly similar temperature rise.
No doubt we can fully appreciate the importance of having an efficient cooling system. It's really one of the key criteria that distinguishes gaming smartphones from other flagships. Anyone can run games smoothly, but gaming smartphones are able to do so for longer periods of time while minimizing loss in performance. 2ff7e9595c
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