Saturday 21 January 2012

No plans to launch phones in India: Lenovo

Lenovo's Android smartphones, which comes with mouth-watering specs, will be launched only in China. Lenovo's upcoming Android smartphone, which comes with Intel's Medfield family processor, will not be launched in India, a spokesperson of the company told The Mobile Indian.

The new Lenovo K800, which was showcased at recently held Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas (USA), will be released first in China. The news is definitely sad because the phone has mouth-watering specifications.

Lenovo K800 is the first smartphone to come with a single core Intel Atom Z2460 mobile processor that comes coupled with PowerVR SGX 540 graphics chip. The phone comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and runs with the new Lenovo LeOS user interface layered on top of it.

Lenovo K800 features a 4.5-inch touchscreen display supporting 720p HD native resolution. It comes with 8 megapixel camera that can capture 15 high quality photos in less than a second. The graphics chip is capable of supporting 1080p HD video playback.

Lenovo K800 is based on Android 2.3 operating system, which will later be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Besides, it has 3G capability, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, an 8 megapixel rear camera, and a front camera as well. The 4.5 inch screen is quite bright and vibrant.

The smartphone utilises an Intel Medfield processor with 1.6 GHz speed and has 1 GB of RAM. The phone is on the lighter side, weighing just 160 gram, and is sleek too but not really stylish in any sense.
The Lenovo K800 has a unique user interface. Its home screen is very similar to that of Windows Phone OS. In fact, the inner design of its user interface made me think it has some Chinese operating system in it (as the language in the phone was Chinese).


The smartphone promises HD video playback for 6 hours, 3G talk time for 8 hours and audio playback for 45 hours. The handset, is truly top class.

Lenovo also showcased Snapdragon chip based smartphones which are also not coming to India.

However, there is a ray of hope too. "If the response to the phone is good in China, the company will review its plans for India," said the spokesperson.

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