The Lenovo Phab2 Pro is the first phone to incorporate Tango, Google’s camera system that is able to detect physical objects in 3D.
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The Phab2 Pro has a metal unibody and it comes with a 6.4-inch QHD IPS touchscreen and four cameras. There's an 8 MP camera on the front, a 16 MP main camera on the rear, as well as a depth camera and a motion tracking camera on the back. It runs Android 6.0 and has a fingerprint scanner and a 4,050 mAh battery. It's powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 652 chipset and can record sound in 5.1 surround thanks to Dolby Atmos technology. 4GB of RAM and 64GB of expandable storage are in too.
Thanks to Tango, the phone uses the motion tracking and the depth sensing cameras to learn, so it can recognize places in which it has been before. It's able to map physical spaces, it can track objects, and it can project virtual effects in what is a real-world space. It can help you navigate indoor places or provide information about the objects it is seeing. An app store for such Tango content will house around 25 apps at the beginning and possibly 100 by the end of the year.
The Lenovo Phab2 Pro will become available online in August and in stores in September. You'll find it globally, while in the U.S. it will be sold by Best Buy and in select Lowes stores. It will cost $499 unlocked. Lowe's home improvement stores will have the Phab2 Pro available too, and it will even be used to demo furniture, flooring, and whatnot, so you can see how any such product will look in your home before you purchase it.
Lowes is one of the first to exploit Tango’s capabilities as a device that senses physical motion and contextually maps out the space around it. Lowes will be bringing out a Tango-enabled app called Lowes Vision that promises to let you use the phone to visualize how appliances, a backsplash or other household items will look in the room you would envision putting them in. The Lenovo Phab2 Pro will depend on apps but its future is bright. ■
