So far Motorola has been the only one that can provide huge batteries
in smartphones, but Lenovo is about to challenge it with the P770. It's
an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean droid with a massive 3,500mAh battery (200mAh
more than the RAZR MAXX HD).
The Lenovo P770 measures 133 x 67 x 11.9mm and weighs 161g (not quite
as slender as Motorola DROID MAXX HD's 131.9 x 67.9 x 9.3mm, 157g). It
has a 4.5" qHD IPS screen and is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Cortex-A9
processor with 1GB of RAM.
The P770 is rated at just over 29 hours of continuous talk time and
nearly a month of standby. The phone features three power-saving modes:
long standby, normal and custom. It also automatically calibrates
battery readings to display accurate battery percentages.
It's not quite clear from Lenovo's site if the battery is
user-replaceable or not (the Motorola RAZR HD MAXX has a non-replaceable
battery).
Anyway, the Lenovo P770 also features a 5MP camera with LED flash,
VGA front-facing camera, two microphones for noise reduction and a
customized Android 4.1.
These specs don't sound too exciting, but the P770 is priced CNY
1,699 ($273, €210) in China (it's available now) and you get an 8GB
microSD card in the box. For now the phone is available only in China
and Lenovo hasn’t announced plans to make it available worldwide
Samsung
managed to snag the top smartphone maker spot in China, but Gartner is
predicting it will soon lose it to Lenovo. As of Q3, Samsung held 16.7%
of the market while Lenovo was close behind with 14.8% (Canalys reports slightly different numbers – 14% for Samsung and 13% for Lenovo).
Lenovo’s growth hasn’t been slow – during the same period last year
they held only 1.7% of the market. “The brand is positioned at the
mid-to-lower end which will drive much of its future growth, and this is
where global brands are less competitive,” says Gartner.
The analyst company believes that the established PC maker is the
only brand that can capable of competing with global brands in the local
Chinese market (though according to Canalys, the other three companies in the Top 5 smartphone maker list are Chinese). Apple had a 6.9% share in Q3.
