This time Lenovo has done the remarkable thing by launching a smartphone with near-to-no bezels, 12GB of RAM, 512GB of internal storage and something that we expected either Samsung or OnePlus to introduce to the world—the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, arguably the most talked about chipset of the year.

The brag-worthy specs do not end here. Completing the “Very 2018” look of the smartphone is a mechanical slider that houses the camera. Unsurprisingly, the smartphone is aimed at gamers. It's called: The Lenovo Z5 Pro.

The Snapdragon 855 chipset now finds its way to an Android smartphone for the first time and it's paired with up to 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Lenovo revealed that the Z5 Pro with Snapdragon 855 outdid every other smartphone in AnTuTu with a score of 368,480.

The smartphone was launched alongside the Lenovo Z5s, the successor to the company’s mid-range torchbearer Lenovo Z5. The Lenovo Z5s is powered by a Snapdragon 710AIE processor, which is starting to become standard in the new mid-range smartphones. This is paired with up to 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. The smartphone is backed by a 3,300mAh battery, which can be charged by an 18W charger. The back of the Lenovo Z5s hosts a triple camera setup with 16MP+8MP+5MP configuration while at the front, under the dewdrop notch, there’s a 16MP sensor.

Coming back to the showstopper. As the Lenovo Z5 Pro doesn’t have a notch, its screen-to-body ratio goes all the way up to about 95.06%. It comes with two rear-facing cameras with a 16MP+24MP configuration. The mechanical slider holds a dual-camera system comprising a 16MP+8MP configuration.

The CPU is mated with an Adreno 640 GPU which claims to provide 20% better graphics performance.

Now about the Snapdragon 855 processor. The chipset is based on a 7nm chipset, going head-to-head with Apple’s A12 Bionic and Huawei’s Kirin 980 processors. The architecture comprises a Kryo 485 “prime” core, three regular Kryo 485 cores and four Kryo 385 efficiency cores. The chipset promises to provide 45% CPU performance and up to 200% boost in AI-based tasks. The battery efficiency has also climbed up by 20%.

The Snapdragon 855 is also the world’s first commercial 5G mobile platform with the Snapdragon X50 5G modem.

The Lenovo Z5 Pro GT will be available for a starting price of 2,698 yuan (approx. Rs 27,700) for the base version with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. Furthermore, the device can be purchased at 2,998 yuan (approx. Rs 30,800), 3,998 yuan (approx. Rs 41,000) and 4,398 yuan (approx. Rs 45,150) for the 8GB/128GB, 8GB/256GB and 12GB/512GB versions respectively.