The Lenovo Vibe Shot smartphone will hit the shelves in Singapore from end July, promising to deliver brilliant images for budding shutterbugs.
First unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in March, the US$349 device features a dedicated shutter button, along with manual controls including aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings.
It also packs an infrared auto-focusing system, which Lenovo claims is twice as fast as conventional autofocus, along with a tri-colour LED flash that produces less glare in images taken with flash light.
During a quick hands-on at the Lenovo Tech World in Beijing this week, the Vibe Shot’s 16-megapixel camera with OIS (optical image stabilisation) capabilities locked on to subjects quickly and produced sharp and vibrant images in a well-lit room. Its low-light performance, however, remains to be seen.
The five-inch device with a full HD screen also includes a ‘smart composition’ feature which offers onscreen point-and-shoot guidance based on different scenes. The Vibe Shot automatically detected a plate of fruits, switched to the food photography mode and guided me on the right angle to take.
For selfie fans, the Vibe Shot includes a panoramic selfie mode that lets you take three separate selfies before turning them into a single photo. This is particularly useful if you want a wider shot, or even get a little cheeky by having the same person appear twice in a single photo.
As a smartphone, the Vibe Shot is a speedy LTE device powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor and 3GB of RAM, and comes with 32GB of built-in storage that’s expandable to 128GB through a microSD card.
The well-built phone sports a full aluminium outer frame, plus front and back Corning Gorilla glass. We’ll run a full review once we get hold of a test unit.
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