X

Lenovo A7000 gives you a taste of Lollipop for $169 (pictures)

The Lenovo A7000 is a new Android smartphone that won't break the bank.

richard-trenholm-square.jpg
richard-trenholm-square.jpg
Richard Trenholm
lenovo-a7000.jpg
1 of 8 Andrew Hoyle/CNET

BARCELONA -- The Lenovo A7000 is one of the new Android smartphones we checked out here at Mobile World Congress 2015.

lenovo-a7000-6.jpg
2 of 8 Andrew Hoyle/CNET

The A7000 smartphone will be available in March in various countries. In the US it will cost $169 -- that's roughly £110 or AU$220.

lenovo-a7000-2.jpg
3 of 8 Andrew Hoyle/CNET

The phone sports a 5.5-inch high-definition screen.

lenovo-a7000-3.jpg
4 of 8 Andrew Hoyle/CNET

It's a 4G LTE model for a faster Internet connection and smooth streaming of music and video.

lenovo-a7000-9.jpg
5 of 8 Andrew Hoyle/CNET

The Lenovo A7000 comes in black or white. Here it is with the case off, showing the removable battery.

lenovo-a7000-4.jpg
6 of 8 Andrew Hoyle/CNET

The software is up-to-the-minute Android 5.0 Lollipop. This is the Lollipop-themed game hidden in the settings menu.

lenovo-a7000-5.jpg
7 of 8 Andrew Hoyle/CNET

Inside is a MediaTek True8Core processor.

lenovo-a7000-8.jpg
8 of 8 Andrew Hoyle/CNET

At 7.9mm thin, the A7000 weighs 140 grams, or about 5 ounces.

More Galleries

Go Inside the Apple iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro: See How the New iPhones Look and Work
iphone 15 in different color from an angled view

Go Inside the Apple iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro: See How the New iPhones Look and Work

21 Photos
17 Hidden iOS 17 Features and Settings on Your iPhone
Invitation for the Apple September iPhone 15 event

17 Hidden iOS 17 Features and Settings on Your iPhone

18 Photos
Astronomy Photographer of the Year Winners Reveal Our Stunning Universe
andromeda

Astronomy Photographer of the Year Winners Reveal Our Stunning Universe

16 Photos
Check Out the iPhone 15's New Camera in Action
A photo of a silhouette of buildings on the water taken on the iPhone 15

Check Out the iPhone 15's New Camera in Action

12 Photos
I Got an Early Look at Intel's Glass Packaging Tech for Faster Chips
Rahul Manepalli, right, Intel's module engineering leader, shows a glass substrate panel before it's sliced into the small rectangles that will be bonded to the undersides of hundreds of test processors. The technology, shown here at Intel's CH8 facility in Chandler, Arizona, stands to improve performance and power consumption of advanced processors arriving later this decade. Glass substrates should permit physically larger processors comprised of several small "chiplets" for AI and data center work, but Intel expects they'll trickle down to PCs, too.

I Got an Early Look at Intel's Glass Packaging Tech for Faster Chips

20 Photos
Yamaha motorcycle and instrument designers trade jobs (pictures)
yamaha01.jpg

Yamaha motorcycle and instrument designers trade jobs (pictures)

16 Photos
CNET's 'Day of the Dead Devices' altar (pictures)
dia-de-los-muertos-3318-001.jpg

CNET's 'Day of the Dead Devices' altar (pictures)

9 Photos