(tapping out drumroll)
- Hey, guys, this is Austin,
and this is the brand new Lenovo Phab 2 Pro
in all its red bubble-wrapped glory.
So, when Lenovo reached out and wanted to a sponsor a video
on their brand new Phab 2 Pro,
they sold me with one word.
Tango, and no, not my amazing dance skills.
This is the first Google Tango enabled-phone.
And it's full of confetti.
We need more color on the table.
Okay, so, a scale of one to 10,
how much do I need to move the confetti
off the table right now?
Really?
All right, confetti stays.
Executive decision from Ken.
So, this is the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro.
This is a very tall box. (laughs)
So, Project Tango is something that Google
has been working on for a little while now,
and this is the first phone
that's actually shipping with it enabled.
And what this essentially allows you to do
is get a much more realistic augmented reality experience,
which might not sound exciting
until you see what this thing can actually do.
Ooh!
(laughs)
That is...
That is a large phone.
So this guy is rocking a 6.4-inch QHD display.
When you consider that this screen's essentially
your portal into the augmented world,
as goofy as that sounds,
having a larger display actually does make sense.
(rustling)
So to put in perspective just how big the Phab 2 Pro is,
I have a Google Pixel, and as you can see,
this is a big phone.
So, might not be the best choice for your skinny jeans,
but it's packing some serious power.
So the Phab 2 is rocking a custom Snapdragon 652 processor
that's specifically made for Google Tango,
with that 6.4-inch 1440p display,
as well as four gigabytes of memory,
64 gigs of storage,
and it's running the latest build of Android Marshmallow.
What I'm really curious about are the cameras.
So, on the top,
there's a fairly standard-looking smartphone camera
with a couple sensors below that.
However, there is an absolutely enormous camera
in the middle, and I'm really curious
what that actually does.
I'm sure it uses some kind of fusion
of all these sensors and cameras
to build the AR experience, but...
That is probably the biggest smartphone camera
I have ever seen.
While it's definitely on the beefier side,
the Phab 2 Pro is a nice piece of hardware.
So it's all (knocks) actual metal.
You get that nice big display.
And there's some nice little touches
like there are exposed screws on the bottom.
It's on the bigger side.
However, when you consider just how much tech is packed
in here, it's sort of a different style of smartphone.
Discover Tango.
An introduction to the Tango experience.
Walk to explore.
Allow for a clear space around you during--
Okay!
So I guess it's using those sensors
to actually kind of build a depth map
around where the room is.
Oh, hello.
There's literally just a plant growing underneath the table.
So once you get into the interface,
you can use this like any other Android phone.
However, what's cool are a lot of the specific Tango apps
that are made for this.
So the first app is actually something
that's pretty practical.
This is Wayfair Measure.
So the idea is, say you're gonna go buy some furniture,
you can actually put the furniture in your space
and see how it looks.
That is actually really cool.
You can see the exact dimensions around it.
So say that I was gonna buy this chair,
I would know that maybe I have some furniture around it
or to the side of it,
and I know that it's actually going to fit.
So with a little bit more room to work with,
we're gonna try some of the other demos,
such as Holo.
So I now see Ken,
but I can add a hologram.
So let's do the Holo Fun Pack.
I want the wrestler dude.
Oh! (wrestler roars)
(laughs)
This is something that most phones can't do, just because...
While it's easy enough to add
a little bit of an AR element to a game,
such as Pokemon Go,
to be able to actually get full tracking
so as you go walk around in full 3D space,
you can get close, you can step away,
and it doesn't lose track of where he is, right?
So he's standing on that exact spot no matter where I stand.
All right, this guy has...
He's got the moves.
What's cool about this is that while it seems
like a really simple sort of thing,
it's surprisingly good, right?
So, it's almost tricking my brain to the point
where I look at this onscreen, and I'm like,
"Oh, the guy's standing there."
Then I move the phone, and he's obviously not there.
Like, it's a simple thing,
but it's enough to really kind of trick you.
It's...
It's better than it should be, honestly.
Next, we have Domino World.
See, this is another case where the tracking is solid.
On this table, the shadows are here.
I can get nice and close.
There it goes.
Oh, all my hard work!
(exclaims)
Did you see that?
I reached my hand out to catch the domino.
It's weird at how good it is at tricking you
into thinking it's real.
It was just an instinct.
I wanted to reach out and catch the domino
'cause I saw it was about to fall on the floor.
VR essentially replaces your reality, right?
You're entirely in that world.
It's all digital, whereas AR allows you
to actually walk around in the real world
and add digital elements to it.
It sounds like it's a weird distinction,
but it is a huge difference.
So is this for everybody?
No, but when you consider that this is something
that you can actually go buy today,
it is a really cool piece of tech.
The cool thing is, you're really not losing anything.
You're getting a rock solid Android smartphone
to begin with, and all the extra Tango features
are just icing on the cake.
And especially when you give it another six months to a year
for some of these apps and games to get even better,
this is gonna be a killer package.
If you guys want to know more about the Phab 2 Pro,
the links will be in the description.
I'm curious.
What do you think about this and Google Tango?
Let me know in the comments below,
and I will catch you in the next one.