Lenovo Legion Phone Review

The Lenovo Legion Phone is a gaming smartphone designed to attract gamers. It’s a big, bold phone that screams gaming and features RGB lighting.

The Legion Phone has a display with a 144Hz refresh rate, which is much faster than most Android phones today. This means the screen will feel more fluid and responsive, even when playing games that don’t support high refresh rates.

Display

The Lenovo Legion Phone offers a 6.92-inch E4 AMOLED display with a 144Hz refresh rate. This isn’t something you’ll see on many phones, as typically, smartphone displays are around 60Hz, though they can go higher.

It also has a fast touch sample response rate, which is ideal for gaming. You can also adjust the screen’s brightness and frame rate, which helps balance performance with the environment.

The Legion’s ‘Twin Turbo-Fan’ cooling system keeps the CPU cool for longer gaming sessions. It also keeps the heat-generating components like the battery and logic board away from the user’s hands.

Camera

Lenovo’s Legion Phone is one of the more unique gaming smartphones around. It ditches the standard camera placement in favor of a pop-up selfie camera and puts the rear camera’s slap bang in the middle of the device.

That can make for some awkward portrait-orientation photos, but it’s a design decision that will appeal to mobile gaming enthusiasts who want a bit of extra flare.

The primary camera in the Legion Phone Duel is a 64-megapixel OmniVision sensor with an f/1.9 aperture and a seven-element lens. It can shoot 4K videos at 120fps and 8K at 30fps, which will be a godsend for eSports tournaments. The camera also features four noise-cancelling microphones for mobile streamers.

Battery

The Legion Phone is designed to keep you gaming all day long. It comes with two 2500mAh batteries combined to make one massive 5000mAh battery.

Lenovo says the battery has been built to help gamers get through even heavy gaming sessions so that you can enjoy all your favourite mobile titles for longer. The dual batteries also offer a unique design: they rest symmetrically on either side inside the device to keep heat-generating components away from each other and keep your hands more comfortable during long gaming sessions.

Lenovo has also crammed in several zany features that gamers will surely love. These include a pop-up selfie camera and ultrasonic shoulder keys.

Performance

The Lenovo Legion Phone is a gaming-first smartphone with an aesthetic that diverges from the norm, and it’s loaded with features that mobile gamers appreciate. It’s got a pair of cooling fans, two charging ports, eight active triggers, and a pop-up selfie camera, all bundled with a gaming-centric Android software experience called Legion Realm.

The phone has the Snapdragon 888 chipset, which has been overclocked to run at a higher performance core. Its 4nm process helps reduce power consumption and heat generation. It also has a high-performance IPS panel, front-firing speakers, and a monster battery pack that packs in a massive 5000mAh cell.

Software

The Legion Phone Duel is a gaming phone, and it’s no surprise that its software is designed with gaming in mind. That means gaudy RGB lighting, a high refresh display, and a busy software experience.

The Lenovo Legion Phone duel is also a little smaller than other gaming phones on the market and has its power button low down on the right side, making it easier to reach without fumbling with your hands. Its software offers Google’s suite of apps and ditches bloatware.

Its performance is impressive, too, with a 3.1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor and a Qualcomm Adreno 650 GPU that can handle practically every Android game at maximum graphics settings. And for gamers who want to stream their games live, the Legion Phone duel comes with a pop-up selfie camera under the power button that supports video recording.