As teased, Letv has indeed become the world’s first manufacturer to release a Snapdragon 820 phone.
The feat happens to be achieved by the Letv Le Max Pro, which was launched moments ago at CES 2016.
Besides just the Snapdragon 820 chip, there’s quite a bit that might make the Le Max Pro an object of desire… not only for Chinese tech fans, but also otherwise. Let’s take a look.
What you’ll notice right off the bat is the 6.33-inch 2K (2560 x 1440p) display and a very familiar Letv design. This includes the under-the-digitiser bezels that Letv have made mainstream.
With four 2.2GHz Kyro cores, the Letv Le Max bundles an Adreno 530 GPU and 4GB of RAM. Storage is taken care of by 32/64/128GB options which sound like they offer plenty for users not to bother about microSD inclusion.
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Styling is more or less in tune with other Letv models we’ve seen in the past, while being most reminiscent of the Letv Le 1s. A 21 mega-pixel camera sits on the rear of the phone, with a below-par capacity sounding 3,400mAh battery inside of the metal hood.
Perhaps Letv believe they’ve put enough optimisation into the Android 6.0 based EUI ROM to take care of the battery life. What’s your take on the Letv Le Max Pro?
…just like I said in my analysis about who’s going to be the first to use sd820… Now for nubia and then probably oppo…
However, I’m quite disappointed of the only thing we can be disappointed so far: battery! I don’t care about self-claimed sw optimization: a bigger battery is always better! The worst thing it’s that this choise will probably affect other models too, so I’m bracing myself for a 2 and 2 pro with 2500 and 3000 mah batteries… Just disappointing!
I am inclined to agree with you but we still need to see how energy efficient the 820 and its Kyro cores really are. By Qualcomm’s own estimates the Kyro is 2x as efficient as Krait. I take a manufacturers number with a grain of salt, so we need to see some extended tests with an 820 powered phone. If Qualcomm is correct a 3400mAh 820 would give equal battery life to a 4000+mAh 810 phone. Of course it all depends on the other components used.
Samsung said the same thing about exynos 7420, “so we can reduce the battery but battery life will improve”… Result: 2 hours sot ?
In this case I’m sure 820 is more energy-efficient than 810, but i still rather a bigger battery, especially when there is plenty of space at disposal! Here it’s clearly a choise (not to add weight maybe?), and maybe the device will have a decent battery life after all, but… Not to say something obvious ?… But with a bigger battery, it would surely be better, without gambling on sw optimization…
The Meizu Pro 5 with 7420 has amazing battery life.
Yep, but pro 5 has a fhd screen an actual battery, while s6 have a qhd and that sort of duracell alkaline battery ?
My point wasn’t if 7420 is efficient (the power/efficiency ratio is good indeed), my point was that samsung claimed something totally not right!
The Meizu proves their claims are correct, the 7420 is a very efficient SoC. The S6 is just not an efficient phone.
I think we can all agree that putting in a bigger battery is a good thing. I’ve never understood the reasoning behind why manufacturers want to double efficiency so they can put in a half size battery! Double the efficiency so it will last twice as long!
A 6000mAh Lithium Polymer battery would have been the perfect crowning feature for this device, I can see no benefit of having a battery that’s less than 4000mAh, other than cost savings (which frankly is LeTV’s problem, not our problem). In fact their battery choice may end up being the Achilles heel for this device.
still, with a large chassis, they could have fit a larger battery in. regardless of efficiency, a 3400mAh battery smells like skimping on an important feature.
I was talking more in general with newer 820 phones. For this one particular which is massive that battery is definitely skimping.
Finally you gave in!!! Hahahahaha
The beauties of peer pressure
6.33!..Interest lost…i mean i could even with max compromise accept 5’7 inch…this is way way oversized for my palm.and even trouser pocket…might as well carry a laptop in future for talking if this trend continues.
Battery seems a little small… I can’t wait to see the full specs and pictures from all angles.
I’ve been always using budget or mid-range phones because nothing justified buying a flagship but this might be the one that I must have!
Where is Rob? He loves the 6+ inch phones.
I LOVE 6 INCH phones too … but my pocket doesn’t :’D
Bigger pants lol?
sorry ..
pocket = wallet 😀
haha… older eyes!