Lenovo has launched its flagship smartphone, the Lenovo Z5 Pro, with a manual slider design in China. We have already seen the same design implementation on the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 and Honor Magic 2 devices. The handset is said to feature a 95.06 percent screen-to-body ratio and it ships with a minimum of 6GB RAM. The 6GB RAM and 64GB storage model of the Lenovo Z5 Pro is priced at 1,998 yuan (Approx Rs 21,200), and its 6GB RAM and 128GB storage variant will cost 2,298 yuan (approx Rs 24,400). The smartphone is available for pre-order in its home country and will go on sale on November 11. There is no word from the company on whether it plans to bring the smartphone to other markets.
The Lenovo Z5 Pro sports a 6.39-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels which is HDR10 compliant. Lenovo says that its manual slider mechanism adopts a six-position guiding structure and it has tested the slider mechanism over 300,000 times for durability. The smartphone comes with a fifth-generation optical in-display fingerprint sensor, which the company claims has a recognition rate of 99.92 percent and time of just 0.2 seconds. Lenovo has added IR Face Unlock as another biometric security option.
The Lenovo Z5 Pro is powered by a 10nm octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 Artificial Intelligence Engine (AIE) processor, which is a considerable upgrade over Lenovo Z5’s Snapdragon 636. In the camera department, the smartphone features a 24MP primary Sony IMX576 sensor and a secondary 16MP Sony IMX519 sensor, both of which have a f/1.8 aperture. For selfies, the Lenovo Z5 Pro sports a 16MP + 8MP dual-camera setup on the front as well. The smartphone houses a 3350mAh capacity battery and runs on Android 8.1 Oreo-based ZUI 10 OS.