Having actually seen the phone now, I’m convinced few regular human beings would want to actually carry it around. The 160.000 naira ($500) Lenovo Phab 2 Pro has a 6.4-inch 2560 x 1440 resolution LCD. It’s a nice enough screen, but a 6.4-inch phone is barely a phone. It’s like a small tablet that makes calls.
You may think you’ve held big phones before, but this is on a whole different level. The Phab 2 Pro weighs 259g and is 10.7mm wide by 179mm tall. By comparison, the Google Pixel XL (which is plenty large itself) weighs 168g and is only 8.5mm wide by 154mm tall. You can use that phone with one hand for short periods of time, but not so with the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro. See below for a comparison with other 2016 smartphones.
On the back of the phone are all the augmented reality sensors, which I think points to the reason this phone is so gigantic. For Tango to work as intended, the hardware needs to be a little larger to accommodate all the sensors. The last Tango dev device was a tablet not much larger than this. The layout of sensors and cameras also pushes the fingerprint scanner rather far down the rear of the device, making it even more awkward to hold.
This is only the first Tango phone, so I expect Google and its OEM partners to make the hardware smaller over time. maybe one day Tango will just be included in most phones by default. For now, though, you have to be okay with toting around a pocket-busting monster phone to enjoy augmented reality.
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