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Lenovo P70 rocks 4000mAh battery

by on12 February 2015


Huge batteries are a thing now, apparently

The Lenovo P70 is just an average mid-range phone for the booming Chinese market, but it happens to feature a massive 4000mAh battery. 

The Lenovo P70 is a 5-incher, with a 720p IPS panel. Despite the oversized battery, the phone measures 71.8mm x 8.9mm x 142mm and weighs in at 149g, which is not bad, all things considered. The battery is not user replaceable though.

The rest of the package is not bad either – you get a MediaTek MT6752 SoC, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of NAND storage and a microSD slot. The MT6752 features eight Cortex-A53 64-bit cores clocked at up to 1.7GHz, and Mali-T760MP2 graphics capable of hitting 700MHz.



The phone has a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Connectivity should not be a problem, as it sports LTE, 802.11n wireless and Bluetooth 4.0. The Lenovo P70 is a dual-SIM device. It's priced at about $220 in China, but don't expect it to go on sale in western markets.

The only problem we could think of is the fact that the phone is available only in ‘Midnight Blue’ – which is a pity, as it could do with a few more colour options.



As we pointed out earlier this week, the Android phone market is becoming increasingly commoditised, so a lot of vendors are trying to find new ways of differentiating their devices. Slapping a huge battery on an affordable mid-range phone is just one way of doing it.

It also makes us wonder – if it’s already possible to create cheap, yet relatively thin phones with oversized batteries, what sort of battery life can we expect on upcoming smartphones, with vastly more efficient FinFET processors?

Last modified on 12 February 2015
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