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hey it's Stan with the verge and I'm checking out Lenovo's new lineup of fab phones being announced at tech world this week the company is announcing three new models the fab 2 the fab 2 plus and the fab 2 Pro all of which will be available in the US later the summer the fab 2 and the fab 2 plus are updates of last year's fab and feature giant 6.4 inch displays big batteries and aluminum designs 199 dollar fab 2 has a 720p display quad-core MediaTek processor while the $299 fab 2 plus steps up to a 1080p screen and octa-core chip and throws in a fingerprint sensor and dual camera array both of those are going to be available unlocked directly from Lenovo when they launch but the most interesting member of the family is the $499 fab 2 Pro it's the first consumer device with Google's tango technology and it has a special camera array including a main 16 megapixel sensor wide-angle camera and infrared depth sensing camera Lenovo is actually shrunk down the tango hardware into a phone form factor here and it's noticeably smaller than the developer tango tablets we've seen in the past as far as phone specs go the fab 2 Pro has a quad HD 6.4 inch screen Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 2 processor 4 gigabytes of RAM and a 16 megapixel camera it's without a doubt a large kind of thick and pretty heavy phone but it's still smaller than earlier tango devices the special cameras work together with the phone's gyroscopes and accelerometers to map out spaces and it can actually locate the device within that space if you walk around a room with a fab 2 pro it knows exactly where you are in that room and in relation to other objects in the space Lin almost showing off a couple of tango experiences that will be available on the fab 2 pro when it launches including an educational dinosaur app that was made in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History a virtual Domino app that lets you create these Rube Goldberg like contraptions wherever you are and a first person shooter lets you gunned down robots in a virtual environment the dinosaur app lets you place a virtual creature in real space and then look at it from a variety of angles by moving the phone around the dinosaur and then tap on specific points to learn more about it lenovo says that there will be about 25 apps available for the tango features in the fab 2 pro when it launches including games utilities and location-based experiences and they're expected to be a hundred apps by the end of the year all three phones are expected to be available later this summer and we'll have more info to share on them once we spent more time with them for more on the fab - lineup and everything else being announced at tech world be sure to check us out at the calm okay Lee get out of the camera huh