According to the tweet, Lenovo promises a “gorgeous new device” that will “deliver the knockout punch.” From the looks of the tweet, the smartphone in question is most likely the Lemon 3, a smartphone that Lenovo launched in China in January. As such, Lenovo’s announcement during MWC could be a global variant of the Lemon 3.
A gorgeous new device has been engineered from scratch to deliver the #Knockout punch. Brace yourselves. pic.twitter.com/PKwuxkaJEg
— Lenovo India (@Lenovo_in) February 12, 2016
If our assumption is correct, the “knockout” that Lenovo refers to could be the price tag, since the Lemon 3 currently retails for around $100, putting the smartphone in direct competition with the current
For $100, you actually get rather impressive hardware from the Lemon 3, which packs a 5-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 resolution display, a 13-megapixel camera on the back, a 5-megapixel camera on the front, and dual rear-facing stereo speakers. Taking a peek under the hood reveals an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 chipset, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage, which is expandable through the MicroSD card slot. Finally, the 2,750mAh battery promises a full day of use and then some.
To clarify, the Lemon 3 is not the innovative, attractive smartphone Lenovo chief executive Yuanqing Yang boasted about last month. That handset, which will be released this July, will be the first Motorola
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