Creeping under the radar is Chinese video streaming service LeTV who are rumoured to be launching a flagship Android smartphone tomorrow.
LeTV are no stranger to Android device and infant jumped onboard last year with a range of Android TV product and Android boxes running their own customised version of Android.
Since those first devices the company have been a little quite on the hardware front, but this might all change tomorrow with the release of their first ever Android smartphone.
A single leak of the phone phone shows an attractive metal shell that appears to be the combination of a HTC and iPhone 6. We also see a dual tone LED flash below the rear camera and LeTV logo.
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Judging by the size of the phone in the hand the LeTV phone could be between 5.2 and 5.5 inches (depending on the bezel size), but we would believe larger is the case as it would make streaming video from LeTV’s services more comfortable for viewing.
Specifications are believed to include LTE, high-end audio and video hardware and a powerful Mediatek MT6795 chipset. We’ll keep an eye on tomorrow announcement to see what the company have planned.
looks like HTC One rip off
With iPhone 6 plastic bands. Doesn’t look that bad to be honest.
Tomorrow, hopefully the official specs of the mt6795 will be revealed. What kind of cpu cores and gpu does this chipset have? Is it perhaps using both A53 as well as A57 cores, same as snapdragon 810? Can it compete with the snapdragon 810?
It is big little 4x A57 & 4x A53; GPU is power vr G6230 two cluster’s one. Wile CPU is on pair with 810 GPU is far from it! GPU is little under the Adreno 320
(96 ALU) find in snapdragon 600 & a slower one @ 400MHz & it will perform up to little better than it thanks to better drivers.
TV-Phone?
So it must have an IR-Blaster inside! 🙂
I sure hope that it does have an IR -Blaster. ALso hope that it has 3GB of RAM minimum with 32GB ROM too. Then I will look forward to making it my next phone.
Can’t wait for the upcoming 6795 phones. Lets hope they are in sub 500$ area.
500 usd for an MTK phone, with that few technologies ? Better consider buying a big brand phone, such as Iphone, HTC, Samsung or Xiaomi
MT6795 announced that this SoC will be able to record 480fps FHD video. Which Qualcomm SoC can do that?
Hopefully this will open the flood gates for other manufacturers to follow, wasn’t quite expecting any MT6795 announcements for at least another month. Even though this is being announced tomorrow doesn’t necessarily mean it will be releasing any time soon!
LeTV (Lollipop equiped TV) …..TV sized phone. No thanks i will not get one. i want a phone not a TV. Since this phone and my 60 inches home TV can not fit my palm and pocket, i prefer to carry my 60 inches TV….
You couldn’t possibly anywhere farther from the truth. LeTV is the name of a video provider in China. It has literally nothing to do with Lollipop equipped TVs or TV sized phones. This phone is also not TV sized.
It’s like saying you wouldn’t buy an iOcean phone because you don’t want to carry an ocean in your pocket.
TV sized meant the inches smart guy…..5.5 is too big for my taste. Carry an ocean in my pocket….. hahahaha. how come you thought of this…..
Sorry, I know its unfair to mock someone due to their lack of English fluency but going by what you wrote in your first comment, what Airyl wrote made 100% sense because it was completely unclear that you were referring to the SIZE of the phone when you kept referring to TV. So please, before you comment back with some smart-ass remarks (calling Airyl a “smart guy”), learn some proper English!
Two letters: BS
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