Legion Y70 gaming smartphone is coming with SD 8+ Gen 1 SoC

Internet sources have published press images of the Legion Y70 smartphone, which will soon be announced by the Chinese company Lenovo. The powerful device will be targeting gamers.

The Legion Y70 runs the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor with eight cores, clocked at up to 3.2 GHz. The amount of LPDDR5 RAM will be up to 16 GB, the capacity of the UFS 3.1 flash drive is up to 512 GB.

Lenovo Legion Y70 official renderings are here before its August 13 debut

Buyers of the Legion Y70 will be able to choose between versions in Ice Soul White (white), Titanium Crystal Gray (dark grey) and Flame Red (bright red). At the back, there is a triple camera with a 50-megapixel main unit with optical stabilization. A 13-megapixel module with wide-angle optics and a 2-megapixel macro sensor.

We are talking about the presence of a 6.58-inch AMOLED FHD + display with a refresh rate of up to 144 Hz. The front camera of the Legion Y70 will receive a 13-megapixel sensor. Power will be provided by a 4800 mAh battery with support for fast 68-watt charging.

The smartphone will ship with the Android 12 operating system, complemented by the proprietary ZUI user interface. There is no information about the estimated price at the moment. But we know that the announcement of the smartphone will take place on August 13.

Lenovo today officially announced its first virtual reality headset, the Lenovo Legion VR700, which will be available soon.

Lenovo uses a unified product naming method in the Lenovo Legion line. So the new smartphone will be called the Lenovo Legion Y70, the tablet will be the Y700, the laptop will be the Y7000, and the upcoming virtual reality headset will be called the VR700.

Lenovo's first VR headset will be running on the Qualcomm XR2 platform. And will launch alongside the new Lenovo Legion Y70 mobile phone. So far, Lenovo has only posted images without giving any details.