The back of the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro.
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NEW YORK—Lenovo today announced the first consumer Project Tango phone, the "Phab 2 Pro." Lenovo describes the phone as a "team effort" with Google, which created the Project Tango technology. Project Tango is also undergoing a bit of a rebranding. It's just "Tango" now—no "Project"—and it has a new logo.
Project Tango started around three years ago as a project inside of ATAP, Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group. The skunkworks team created prototype mobile devices with computer vision sensors—imagine an Xbox Kinect crammed into the back of a smartphone. Sensors allow the device to create a 3D point cloud of its surroundings and know where it is in 3D space. This system can be combined with a live camera feed for various augmented reality uses, or it can be used to track your precise indoor location for mapping purposes.
Take away all the fancy 3D sensors, and Project Tango is an Android phone. The developer kit was an Android tablet, and cramming everything down to a "phone" size device meant going with a very large body. The Phab 2 Pro has a massive 6.4-inch 1440p display built into a metal unibody. The device is also backing a pretty large battery: 4050 mAh.
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