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Lenovo's camera-centric smartphone has a 'pro' mode switch

2015-03-02
hello fine pants Luke Westway here at Mobile World Congress 2015 we're taking a look at the Lenovo vibe shot a smartphone that makes much of its camera capabilities let's investigate now let's talk a little bit about that camera tech so on the side here there are two dedicated buttons this one here is a shutter button while this one switches between smart and pro modes now when you're using the phone in smart mode is basically like using any other smartphone camera although it does have some pretty cool object tracking technology which tries to line you up to get the best shot things get a lot more interesting though when you flick this switch and move into pro mode now what that gets you is loads of extra optional settings so you can do things like adjust the aperture adjust the ISO depth of field and white balance things that let you really really tinker with the picture that you're getting so as for the camera Hardware this is a 16 megapixel camera it's a six piece modular lens it's got a tricolor LED flash as well so when this thing's not doing camera tricks it is a regular smartphone as well it's got three gig of ram this is a 5-inch screen it's running Android 5.0 and it's got an 8 megapixel front-facing camera for high-res selfies it's coming out in June and it's gonna cost roughly three hundred and fifty dollars let us know what you think and check out cnet.com slash for much more
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