Lenovo gets serious with mobile gaming: unveils the new Legion Duel

After so much leaks and teasers, Lenovo finally unveiled the new Lenovo Legion Duel, a new smartphone device designed for gamers. If you are familiar with Legion line of PC’s and its peripherals from Lenovo, then the Legion Duel is its mobile variant.

While the Legion Duel branding is most likely for the global market, the new device will be called Legion Pro in China and apparently, the country will be the first one to get it. However, for this article, we will call it as its “global name” to avoid confusion and excessive typing.

The new Lenovo Legion Duel is built around a 6.65-inch AMOLED display with the latest display technology available in the market, that is 144Hz refresh rate with 240Hz touch sampling rate, it’s got one of the minimal bezels around, an in-display fingerprint reader and a front firing dual speakers.

The handset comes with a unique front facing camera around and it’s a pop-up, but instead at the top, the Legion Duel has then on the side, which ergonomically positioned to take shoots and videos in landscape mode and is ideal for recording live commentaries with 4 microphones for clear and crisp sound recording during gaming.

On the back, users get the accustomed gaming themed back panel with the familiar Legion emblem with a surprisingly unconventional but strategically located back cameras. It’s main imaging modules comprises of two sensors with a 64 Megapixel primary together with a 16 Megapixel with Ultra Wide lens.

Expected for a dedicated gaming device, the Lenovo Legion Duel is equipped with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ chipset and comes with advanced cooling system with two heat pipes. The device also ships with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and a UFS 3.1 storage of up to 512GB.

For an immersive gaming experience, we’ve already mentioned the fast 144Hz display refresh rate and its dual front-firing stereo speakers. Added to that, the device also comes with pressure-sensitive side triggers that can be customized for games and Lenovo’s U-Engine Dual X-axis vibration motor that promises more than a hundred long vibration patterns and 13 types of low-response vibrations.

This years gaming smartphone won’t be a truly gaming device without the best connectivity support in the market and the Lenovo Legion Duel is blessed with it all throughout with support for the latest WiFi 6 protocol and let’s not forget that 5G is the new in for this generation.

In addition to the latest connectivity options, the Lenovo Legion Duel also supports a wide range of accessories including a dock that allows users to connect a larger monitor, keyboard and a mouse. It can also turn into a mini console where it accepts gamepads via cable or through bluetooth.

Keeping up the new Legion Duel is a dual 5000mAh and is charged by a side-mounted USB-C port that supports a full 90W Turbo Power Charging and promises 30 minute full charging.

Lenovo offers two color variants for the Legion Duel with either Red and Blue and will go on sale in China as the Lenovo Legion Pro starting August 5th.

As for the price, the new smartphone retails at CNY 3,499 for its 8GB/128GB variant, prices for the rest of the variants are as follows:

12GB/128GB = CNY 3,899

12GB/256GB = CNY 4,199

16GB/512GB = CNY 5,999

The new Lenovo Legion Duel will be available in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America on a later date.