Lenovo’s ZUK Z1 is all but set for international release with Cyanogen

The ZUK Company and brand were created with Lenovo’s support earlier this year. Their first product is the ZUK Z1 smartphone – an affordable 5.5″ smartphone priced at about €250. The Z1 was available exclusively in China, but ZUK is now promoting the phone to international release.

According to the official statement – the ZUK Z1 for the international markets will be keeping its specs, but will switch its custom Android Lollipop for a Cyanogen OS 12.1, also Lollipop-based.

The ZUK Z1 packs a 5.5″ 1080p display and runs on the last year’s everybody’s favorite Snapdragon 801 chipset with 3GB of RAM. The rest of its specs include a 13MP main cam, an 8MP selfie snapper, 64GB storage, LTE connectivity, a fingerprint scanner and a beefy 4,100 mAh battery. There is also a USB Type-C port.

ZUK has already announced its partnership with Cyanogen and outside China the Z1 will be running on Cyanogen OS.

ZUK is going to announce the international markets and the pricing tomorrow.

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LG smartwatch with 1.77-inch screen and CDMA passes through FCC

The Next LG smartwatch is rumored to come with a high-resolution screen at 480 x 480px. While the FCC doesn’t test screen sharpness, at least it was kind enough to measure the screen and snap a photo of the new watch.

The images show a rectangular watch with a metallic bezel and a silicone wrist band. The screen of the LG-VC110 smartwatch was measured at 1.77″ making for 383ppi pixel density. Note that the FCC has since removed the pages that contained the images

That would make it the sharpest smartwatch screen yet – beating the 2″ 300ppi screen of the Samsung Gear S and 1.53″ 326ppi of the Apple Watch. It will also blow past the LG Watch Urbane’s 240ppi.

Like the LG Watch Urbane LTE, this smartwatch has its own mobile connectivity – CDMA in particular (compatible with Verizon and US Cellular). It will be the first LG watch with mobile data outside of South Korea.

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