Google’s Tango-based Lenovo Phab2 Pro phone is finally hitting retail next month

While there was certainly a lot to get excited about on display at Google’s far-reaching San Francisco hardware event yesterday, we couldn’t help but feel a few things were also missing.Blame that on Hiroshi Lockheimer’s excessive hyping, and wild last-minute rumors of a prospective Andromeda arrival much earlier than

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HoloLens and the HP Elite x3 may have AR in common

The HP Elite x3 may soon have some awesome augmented reality capabilities similar to the Lenovo PHAB2 Pro and just like how the Microsoft HoloLens does.PCWorld talked with HP’s mobility head Michael Park about how some Universal Windows Apps made for the HoloLens ...

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Without more OEM support, Tango could be DOA

We finally get introduced to Project Tango, now simply known as Tango. Tango made its grand entrance today on the Lenovo PHAB2 Pro, a 6.4-inch monster of a phone with built in sensors for camera, depth, motion, and I think making grilled cheese. This is the world’s first Tango enabled phone, which is very exciting, but it also gives me pause. We’ll get to that in a bit.Tango is essentially Microsoft’s Hololens on your phone. Instead of a self-contained helmet, you’re getting a self-contained phone which offers certain advantages and disadvantages over Microsoft’s implementation. ...

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Project Tango materializes in Lenovo PHAB2 Pro

Lenovo has introduced three phones in its PHAB2 series.The PHAB2 (image left) is a $199 6.4-inch phablet with some AR technology, a 13-megapixel camera and 16GB of expandable storage. At $299 comes the PHAB2 Plus (image middle) — it brags a pair of rear cameras with f/1.8 lenses and Fujitsu imaging processors. Lenovo makes the point that those processors are also found in Leica cameras, a nick at Huawei and its Leica-approved P9.But the big deal of the trio shines as

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