The phrase âHongmi Killerâ has been thrown around a lot, but we truly believe Lenovo are on to a Winner with the new Lenovo S898T octacore phone.
The Xiaomi Hongmi, later known as the Redmi, is a solid phone with good specs at a great price, but it is beginning to show itâs age and the design was never the most attractive. We have already seen solid rivals from Huawei, Beidou and others, and now it is the turn of Lenovo with a thin, powerful phone costing from just $126.
The Lenovo S898T will come in two versions the 788 Yuan model with 1GB RAM and 8GB memory and a 988 Yuan model with 2GB RAM and 16GB memory. What we like about the S898T is that itâs 5.3-inch OGS display slots nicely between the sizes offered by the Redmi and Redmi Note. The panel on the Lenovo is also a LTPS unit so you can easily use the phone with gloves or even with wet hands.
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Lenovo will only offer the S898T with the 1.4Ghz version of the octacore MT6592 (the same as the entry-level Redmi Note) but with options of up to 2GB RAM, this should provide more than enough performance for most users. The phone also sports a 13 mega-pixel main camera and 5 mega-pixel front.
We donât know the battery size just yet, but this might be one area the Lenovo S898T falls against the Redmi. The body of the phone measures just 7.9mm so we donât expect anything as large as a 3200mAh battery on board. The only other issue, if you are not in China, is that the âTâ in the name stands for TD-SCDMA, so no 3G for international users! Letâs hope a WCDMA model is in the pipes.
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Boooooooooooo no wcdma
Agreed
Whenever a phone looks great and has decent specs at an unbelievable price you can bet it has no WCDMA. Manufacturers seem to think that is not essential but my carrier in Romania has no GSM support at all, it only works on 3G or 4G so I need it not for the 3G internet but to be simply able to make phone calls. I can’t believe 3G is still considered unessential or new technology, it has been around for more than a decade!