At the Global Sources Electronics Show last month,
Leagoo announced it’s new phone, the M5 Edge. We got to learn of all the
details especially its 3D Edgeless display which Leagoo says has an 80%
screen-to-body ratio.
Thanks to Twitter user @jorkerlee who posted real
images of the device, we now have a good idea of what to expect when it
launches. The Leagoo M5 Edge has a dual-curved HD display. Although Leagoo said
the phone will be available in Champagne Gold and Obsidian Black, the unit in
the image is silver.
The front of the phone looks nice but the lower
bezel is pretty huge, leading us to doubt the 80% screen-to-body ratio. The
dimensions on the official website states that the phone measures 140 × 68.3 ×
8.5mm. So we decided to do the math and came up with 72% instead. That’s a
significant difference and we hope Leagoo clears the air on that.
We think the front bezels could have just been made
smaller since the fingerprint scanner is positioned at the back and the battery
is just 2000 mAh. The M5 Edge has a 13MP rear camera with a slight hump. Right
below it is the LED flash and the fingerprint scanner. There are also holes
drilled at the bottom for the speaker. The front camera is an 8MP 77.9° wide-angle camera.
The Leagoo M5 Edge is powered by a MT6737 SoC
paired with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. There is microSD card support and
dual SIM slots. It runs Leagoo’s Freeme OS 6.0 which is based on Android
Marshmallow. Official launch is said to be next month but there is still no
specific date yet.