LeEco’s new Le 2 smartphones come without a headphone jack
LeEco, the Chinese smartphone manufacturing company, today launched its new Le 2, Le 2 Pro and Le Max 2 smartphones in China. As reported, not only LeEco’s new smartphones are powerful and attractive, but they are also among the few smartphones to ditch headphone jack. The LeEco Le 2, Le 2 Pro and Le Max 2 come without any headphone jack. The company believes that USB Type-C based digital headphones is what you need.
LeEco isn’t the only company to think that. Apple is reportedly also planning to kill the 3.5mm headphone jack on its next iPhone. To answer all your questions, LeEco also unveiled two of its very own USB-C in-ear and over-ear earphones. So, that you can enjoy the Le 2, Le 2 Pro and Le Max 2 without any interruption.
LeEco’s all three smartphones are identical too each other and they are aimed towards different price range. Starting with the affordable option which is Le 2, premium model - Le 2 Pro and the high end model, Le Max 2.
All three feature metallic design with premium look and a squircle fingerprint reader on the back. While there isn’t anything new in the design, but the edge-to-edge glass panel and that HTC smartphone like antenna bands, are some of the most attractive elements in these smartphones.
There is one feature in one of these smartphones that caught our attention. It is Le Max 2, which packs a whopping 6GB of RAM. (Ya! you read it right.) The Le Max 2 has everything that makes it the most powerful smartphone in the market. It has 5.7-inch QHD display screen, powered by Qualcomm’s latest and powerful Snapdragon 820 chipset, with Quick Charge 3.0 support and 64GB of internal storage. It also supports tri-band carrier aggregation, which means it will offer you a download speed of up to 375 Mbps.
And thanks to these specs, Le Max 2 is also the most expensive smartphone in these all three.
The Le 2 and Le 2 Pro, on the other hand are the affordable options. Both pack a 5.5-inch of Full HD display screen with 10-core tri-cluster MediaTek chipset inside. The Le 2 has X20, while Le 2 Pro has much faster, X25. Apart from that, the Le 2 has 16-megapixel camera on the back whereas the Le 2 Pro has a 21-megapixel camera, the same one which you will find on Moto X Pure Edition. On the front, they both have 8MP camera, to take impressive selfies. The Le 2 comes with 3GB RAM and the Le 2 Pro with 4GB RAM.
Let’s talk about the price now.
The price of LeEco Le 2 is 1,099 yuan ($170), the Le 2 Pro is 1,499 yuan ($230) 2,499 yuan ($390) of the top end Le Max 2 smartphone with 6GB of RAM. All three will be on pre-order starting today, but only in China. There are currently no details when LeEco is planning to launch them in the Indian market.
