Lenovo set to launch Project Tango-based smartphone in mid-year

Lenovo has collaborated with Google to build up a cell phone that uses the search titan's sensory awareness technology platform, Project Tango.

Lenovo is set to be the first maker to advertise with a cell phone utilizing Project Tango amid the center of this current year.

Subtle elements on the up 'til now anonymous handset are deficient, yet Lenovo said at a press occasion amid CES that the telephone would be no bigger than a 6.5-inch handset, cost under $500, and utilize a Qualcomm processor.

The sensor and cameras required for Project Tango to work will be put vertically in the top third of the back of the telephone.

Declared in February 2014 by Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) bunch, Project Tango was intended to track the 3D movement of the gadget, while in the meantime making a guide of the encompassing environment.

Google kept a firm hold of the ATAP bunch when it sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.9 billion in 2014.

"With Project Tango, the cell phone turns into an enchantment window into the physical world by empowering it to see space and movement that goes past the limits of a touch screen," said Johnny Lee, Project Tango Lead at Google.

"By working with Lenovo, we'll have the capacity to make Project Tango more open to clients and engineers everywhere throughout the world to both appreciate and make new encounters that mixes the virtual and true."



The pursuit goliath had beforehand sold Project Tango engineer tablets that kept running on Android and utilized a Nvidia Tegra K1 processor, 4 GB of memory and 128 GB of capacity limit. Alongside standard versatile sensors, for example, a whirligig and accelerometer, the gadget additionally utilized a movement following camera and infrared sensor.

In the meantime as declaring the forthcoming gadget, Google and Lenovo have dispatched an application hatchery program, where designers can submit application thoughts that utilization Tango, and chose applications will be supported, pre-introduced, and included on the gadget.

Entries for the application hatchery close on February 15.

Prior on Thursday at CES, Lenovo COO Rick Osterloh uncovered that the organization would be eliminating the Motorola brand name for a Moto by Lenovo moniker.

Dillon Ye, Lenovo Asia-Pacific Mobile Business VP told ZDNet the change will permit Lenovo to move its image name into premium cell phones, where already it had concentrated on the lower end of the business sector and in creating countries.

"That is something we need to change," Ye said. "Moto will be the sub-brand to concentrate on the standard and execution side, and Vibe will be the sub-brand to concentrate on passage and standard."

The up and coming Tango handset will be a Lenovo-marked gadget.