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When it comes to the other cameras in the Duel, Lenovo played it safer. For its main camera, the phone has a dual matrix consisting of a 64-megapixel sensor paired with an f / 1.89 aperture lens and a 16-megapixel ultra-wide camera with a 120-degree field of view. By 2020 standards, a dual-camera setup is roughly two very few cameras for a high-end phone, but people who buy the Duel won’t get it for its photography capabilities.
Internally, the phone features Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 Plus processor. The updated chipset features a processor that’s 10 percent faster than its Snapdragon 865 counterpart, as well as a GPU with a slightly higher clock to boot. Overseas gamers can buy a Legion Phone Duel with either 12GB or 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM (both options are excessive) and 256GB or 512GB of fast UFS 3.1 storage.
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To keep those high-performance components up and running, the Legion Phone Duel includes a “liquid cooling” copper tubing and uses two 2,500 mAh batteries (for a total capacity of 5,000 mAh) that Lenovo has physically separated from each other. The company says the placement helps prevent the logic board and batteries from heating up with each other. Battery life is approximately one full day with “average usage”.
In some markets, the Legion Phone Duel will ship with a 90W charger. Lenovo says the adapter can charge the Duel’s two batteries from zero to 50 percent in 10 minutes. Fully charging the batteries takes 30 minutes. The funky thing here is that the phone also has two USB-C ports.
The Duel is a gaming-focused device, it comes with a 6.65-inch 144Hz smooth display with a 240Hz sampling rate to reduce input lag. If you want to use the phone with your gaming monitor or TV, you can do it. Launch mode allows you to pair the phone with a keyboard and mouse or controller, with key mapping support included.
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The Legion Phone Duel is clearly a device beast, but gaming phones are hard to sell, just ask Razer. The fragmented nature of Android hardware means that most developers are unwilling to invest the time, effort, and money required to optimize their titles for specific devices. Drink FortniteFor example: it works at 90 frames per second only when playing on OnePlus 8 phones. It doesn’t matter if you have another device with a compatible screen: the game will not render at a higher frame rate. There’s also the uncomfortable fact that the iPhone is probably the best gaming phone you can buy. Too many mobile games are a waste of time at best, but the titles that can stand up against their PC and console counterparts the most tend to finish first on iOS. (That’s something the Apple Arcade launch has only gotten worse for.)
If none of that matters to you, buying the Legion Phone Duel can be tricky. It will be available in China later this month, where Lenovo will market it as Legion Phone Pro. It will also make its way to select markets in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and other parts of Asia later this year. Lenovo does not currently plan to sell the Duel in the United States, nor has it said how much the phone will cost outside of China.
