Lenovo S5 announced: Specifications, price, release date and more

Meet the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 competitor from Lenovo.

| Updated: Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 15:57 [IST]

Lenovo S5, which has been making rounds on the internet for quite some time has been announced by the company in China as promised. The Lenovo S5 is a mid-range smartphone with a full-screen design, a dual camera setup at its rear, an AI-powered selfie camera, and more. The device looks pretty attractive and is meant to compete with the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus available in India as the Redmi Note 5.

Lenovo S5 announced: Specifications, price, release date and more

As teased before, the Lenovo S5 runs Android 8.0 Oreo topped with the company's ZUI 3.7. There is support for U-Touch 4.0 for gesture interaction. Given that it is a full-screen smartphone with a bezel-less 18:9 display, the fingerprint sensor is positioned at the rear. The dual cameras are positioned horizontally at the top left corner and the LED flash is placed next to it.

Lenovo S5 specifications

The Lenovo S5 bestows a 5.7-inch FHD+ 2.5D curved glass display with a resolution of 2160 x1080 pixels and an aspect ratio of 18:9. Under its hood, the mid-range Lenovo smartphone makes use of an octa-core 2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 SoC based on 14nm process paired with Adreno 506 GPU. The smartphone comes in three variants - 3GB RAM and 32GB storage space, 4GB RAM and 64GB storage space and 4GB RAM and 128GB storage space. All the variants support expandable storage up to 128GB with a hybrid dual SIM slot. There is a rear-mounted fingerprint, 4G VoLTE, a USB Type-C port and a 3000mAh battery.

Camera

Running Android 8.0 Oreo topped with ZUI 3.7, the Lenovo S5 comes with a dual-camera setup at its rear with two 13MP sensors along with f/2.2 aperture and dual-tone LED flash. One of them is a monochrome lens while the other is an RGB lens. There is a 16MP selfie camera with f/2.0 aperture and an 80.2-degree wide-angle lens. The selfie camera is AI-powered and has features such as face beautify and face unlock.

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Price and availability

Lenovo S5 features a metal unibody design and comes in Flame Red and Midnight Black color variants. The base model of the smartphone with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage space is priced at 999 yuan (approx. Rs. 10,300). The variant with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage space is priced at 1199 yuan (approx. Rs. 12,400). When it comes to the high-end model, the Lenovo S5 variant with 4GB RAM and 128GB storage space is priced at 1499 yuan (approx. Rs. 15,500).