Smartisan has officially announced the Smartisan T2 flagship at an event held at the well-known Beijing National Convention Center, couple of hours ago in China. The chinese company decided to go with a minimalistic design outlook but retails the well known sleek aluminium metallic frame.
The Smartisan T2 has no visible screws, no power button, no SIM tray and no visible plastic bands around the metallic frames. There is 2.5D Gorilla Glass panel on both the front and back; there two set of keys on both sides which can either be customised to adjust screen brightness or volume settings.
The keys on the right hand side hides the Nano SIM Tray and poking a pin into the hole brings it’s out. The screen is bezel-less and the back cover is non-removable. There are three customisable physical buttons below the display just like on the T1 and the home key also serves as the power button.
Moving to the specs, the T2 sports a 4.95-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) FHD LCD display, powered by an hexa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor (2 x Cortex-A57 at 1.82GHz + 4 x Cortex-A53 at 1.44GHz) with Adreno 418 GPU, 3GB LPDDR3 RAM and either 16GB or 32GB of built-in storage space.
For quality audio output, there is a pair of Texas Instrument OPA1612 chips for this; for photography, there is a rear facing 13MP f/2.0 camera with OIS and a front facing 5MP camera for selfies. Connectivity options on the Smartisan T2 includes – Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, micro USB and 4G LTE.
It measures 144.55 x 70.84 x 7.53mm in dimensions, weighs 146 grams and is backed by a non-removable 2670mAh battery. On the software side, the T2 boots Smartisan OS 2.5 (based on Android 5.1 Lollipop OS). This is readily available to the Smartisan U1 but the Smartisan T1 will get it by January 6.
The Smartisan T2 is coming about 19 months after the debut of the T1 flagship and one can say the wait is well worth it. Talking about the pricing, the 16GB model costs CNY 2499 (US$ 385) and the 32GB model goes for CNY 2599 (US$ 400)
