Chinese manufacturer Lenovo released the Phab in 2015
with a 7-inch HD screen, and the 6.4-inch Phab 2 Pro the following year. The
latter, still available from Lenovo, was the first mass marketed handset to
include Google's Project Tango AR features. Even though Google shutdown the
Tango project in December 2017, it appears that the manufacturer could be
working on another Phab model.
The Nashville Chatter (via XDA) has discovered that
a device known as the Lenovo Tab V7 has been certified in the U.S. by the FCC.
Carrying the model numbers PB-6505M and PB-6505MC, there is speculation that
this device will be the Phab 3. Based on the dimensions of the phone (178mm x
86 mm, 198mm diagonally), the Chatter says that the Tab V7 carries a screen
size as large as 7.8-inches.
Also of note is the capacity of the battery, which
according to the FCC documentation is 5180mAh. The device will be equipped with
dual-band Wi-Fi, and a diagram included with the FCC's paperwork shows that the
Tab V7 will have a single camera on back along with a flash and a fingerprint
scanner.
XDA went through the Google Play Developer Console
Device Catalog and found the PB-6505M. It will have the form factor of a phone
and feature 3GB of RAM. The display will carry a resolution of 1080 x 2160
(Full HD+). The Snapdragon 450 Mobile Platform will be under the hood, and the
device will come with Android 9 Pie out of the box.
Two big clues telling us that the Lenovo product
that visited the FCC is the Phab 3 and not a new tablet, are the the model
numbers of the variants that were certified. Both the PB-6505M and PB-6505MC
use a PB prefix; the model number of the first Lenovo Phab phone was PB1-750M
while the Phab 2 Pro's model number is PB2-690M. Lenovo happens to use a prefix
of TB for its tablets. For example, the Lenovo Tab P10 is model number
TB-X705F.
