Lenovo yesterday introduced Legion Y90, the company’s latest gaming phone in China, as it had announced. The phone packs a 6.9-inch Full HD+ E4 AMOLED screen with 144Hz refresh rate, is powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 with up to 18GB of RAM, up to 512GB UFS + 128GB SSD storage, VC liquid cooling along with dual fan cooling. Lenovo says that the active cooling system on this phone can provide an additional 4W of performance, and SSD can improve random write performance by 50%.
The phone packs a 5600mAh battery with support for 68W fast charging that can charge up to 100% in 35 minutes. These are 2 USB-C ports, including one on the side that supports 10Gbps data transmission, DP video output, OTG and reverse charging, and the other port supports 5Gbps data transmission, OTG, audio and reverse charging. It has gaming triggers, RGB rear lighting and dual X axis vibration motors.
Lenovo Legion Y90 specifications
- 6.9-inch (2460 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 20:9 E4 AMOLED display with 144Hz refresh rate, 720Hz multi-finger touch sampling rate, DC Dimming
- Octa Core Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 4nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 730 GPU
- 12GB / 16GB LPDDR5 RAM with 256GB (UFS 3.1) internal memory / 18GB LPDDR5 RAM with 512GB (UFS 3.1) + 128GB SSD internal memory
- Android 12 with ZUI 13
- Dual SIM (nano + nano)
- 64MP rear camera with f/1.8 aperture, LED flash, 13MP 120° ultra-wide camera
- 16MP front camera
- In-display fingerprint scanner
- Stereo speakers with 1.48cc chambers, Dolby Atmos, Smart PA
- Dimensions: 177×78.4×10.14mm
- 5G NSA /SA, Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 6E 802.11 ax (2.4GHz + 5GHz + 6GHz), Bluetooth 5.1, GPS (L1/L5)+ GLONASS, Type-C USB 3.1 Gen2, Type-C USB 2.0, NFC
- 5600mAh (typical) battery with 68W fast charging
The Lenovo Legion Y90 comes in Titanium Grey colour, is priced at 4299 yuan (US$ 681 / Rs. 51,285 approx.) for 12GB + 256GB model, 4599 yuan (US$ 728 / Rs. 54,865 approx.) for 16GB + 256GB model and the top-end 18GB + 640GB model costs 5299 yuan (US$ 839 / Rs. 63,215 approx.). It is available to order and will go on sale in China starting from March 10th. It will get a 300 yuan discount during the first sale.