Now instead of me typically going through every single feature of the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel, I've decided to put my "gaming hat" on to look at this phone's usage from a gaming perspective, since it is more of a gaming smartphone, so let's check it out. Looking at the phone's build quality and design. The phone had a quite premium build and quite a decent heft to it.
And like what you would usually find in a gaming smartphone, the device was a bit thicker than a typical smartphone to give you a proper grip when it comes to playing games Then there's the matte finish at the sides also had a semi squared-off edges which also helps with the overall grip. In front, there is a flatscreen display with the in-display fingerprint sensor which unlocks REALLY fast.
Then at the back, you will find the phone's unique design, where firstly, the cameras are placed in the middle slightly towards the top of the phone with no camera bump at all so you won't have a wobbly smartphone. And if you are holding the phone in a landscape position, you will find a text which says Stylish Outsideon the left and Savage Inside on the right and right in the middle you will find a nice illuminated Legion Logo at back, where it is customisable to change colours under Gaming, Incoming Call, Notification and Charging, with different motion effects as well. Looking at the ports and buttons from a landscape position, on the right, you'll find the SIM ejector slot and one of two USB-C ports where the other USB port is down below next to the volume rockers. Why there are two USB-C ports, you asked? Well, stay till the end of this video...
Then looking on top, there is the power button. So a gaming phone with horrible ugly notch or any sort out camera cut-out is a huge dealbreaker for most people including me and the good news is that the phone comes with a full 6.65 inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels, with HDR 10+ and up to a super high 144-hertz refresh rate, where you have the option to only use the 144 hertz specifically during gaming. Now if you are wondering where the front camera is, or even there is a front camera Well... Lenovo has played it smart by not only putting a pop-up camera but if you guys are playing on a landscape position like this the pop-up camera is right in the middle...
Making it easier for you to play games and stream at the same time using the front camera's composition right in the middle instead of typically on the side with the additional cool filters on the face as well. Genius! So with this, playing games on the phone for a really long time did not make me have any sort of eye fatigue, and due to its great colours and brightness, the details of the highlight and shadows were great when playing games to ensure that no details were missed.
Now, looking at the phone's hardware or the "engine" of the phone the phone comes with the Snapdragon 865+ Chipset with the Adreno 650 GPU. where the variant that I have is the massive 12 gigs RAM with 256 gigs of storage, and it comes with Android 10 with Legion OS ZUI version 12 skin. Now having 12 gigs of RAM really shows that Lenovo was dead serious of giving us the utmost best performance as a gaming smartphone.
where there were no problems or any lagging issues not only when it comes to playing games but also using the phone as my daily smartphone. And of course, with a really good 256 gigs of storage, you won't have any storage anxiety when playing games on the phone, which only means that I could download "space"... ...download space? Download the space! Which only means that I could download games after games with plenty of storage still remaining on the phone. Now let's talk about cameras. Now, here's the thing. Yes I know that this is a gaming smartphone review and smartphone cameras on a gaming smartphone in a lack of a better terminal.
Totally sucks! BUT that was not the case here as the phone has surprisingly an amazing camera on the main lens, both for photos and videos. And the same can be said for the front camera as well and I also found that the night mode shots to be one of the best that I've ever seen as you guys can see over here, where the phone comes with a 64-megapixel f/1.9 aperture lens and a 16-megapixel, f/2.2 16mm Ultrawide- lens Then the front camera comes with a pop-up selfie camera of a 20-megapixel f/2.2 aperture lens. Then looking at the phone's audio, the phone has a dual front-facing stereo speakers, where the audio quality was great when it comes to playing music and of course, playing games were surely one of the loudest smartphone speakers that I have tested, where it ranged close to up to the 90 dB mark and here is a quick sound test. And also worth mentioning when it comes to the Bluetooth wireless audio, it has aptX, LDAC and TWS Plus to not only give you a great audio but also, a reduced latency as well. Diving deeper into the Gaming Mode, you can go through the Gaming Menu by touching and holding both of the shoulder keys on the top sides of the phone on a landscape position to launch that and these two shoulder keys could also be used as actions in the games as well. And within the game, you can swipe down to go through the Legion assistance game menu where in there, there is the Ping Quality both for Wifi and SIM Connectivity and the brightness slider over there on the left. Then in the middle, there is the Frames Per Second marker, the refresh rate, the GPU and CPU performance where there is also the option of the Rampage Mode to fully maximize the overall performance of the phone. Then you'll also find the temperature of the phone over there. Then finally, looking towards the right, there is the additional settings like Back Recording, Controller, Stream Mode and to take a screenshot, and many other options available over there. Then looking down below, you'll find the audio slider over there as well. Now, when it comes to the exact games that I played on the phone, first of all, I played Gear Club as usual where the gameplay was nice and smooth with its high refresh rate. Then I tested PUBG Mobile with graphics set to HDR and Frame Rate set to Extreme and I am happy to note that it ran well with no lag and only a very tiny bit warmth during a long gameplay. And it also ran great when I was playing COD Mobile as well. And since I have the phone with me awhile more do let me know what games that you would like for me to test at the comment section below and I will test them out for you. And finally, none of this amazing phone's gameplay would matter if it did not have a great battery, as the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel comes with a dual 2,500 milliamps of battery which bring this to a total capacity of 5,000 milliamps which gave me an average of 5 hours and 36 minutes of screen on time, when I was at 8 percent battery where it lasted a total of 1 day and 29 minutes since the last charge at 144-hertz refresh rate all the way so that was truly amazing. Now since there are two USB-C ports, as mentioned earlier you can charge not one but also the other USB-C port at the same time to give you a dual turbo charge, where it gives you fast-charging up to a massive 90 watts for the 512GB variant and 65 watts for this 128GB storage variant. And another reason why there is another USB port down below is because once you are playing game it's easier to charge without any inteference. So there you have it, my full gaming review with the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel. If you guys are planning to get the phone, it is priced at RM3,399 and it comes in two colours for your guys to choose from where the one which I am reviewing is called the Blazing Blue and it also comes in Vengeance Red where I'll leave links down below for you guys to get yourself one. With this, do let me know if you guys have any questions about the phone at the comment section below.
