Foraying into the Indian market, Zuk, which is a new subsidiary of Lenovo, announced the launch of its first smartphone for the country. Named Zuk Z1, the new phone comes to India with a price tag of Rs 13,499. The phone will be available in India from May 19 exclusively on Amazon India.
The Zuk Z1 is said to be designed for power users and features a fingerprint sensor, Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, 64 GB eMMC storage, 4100 mAh battery and a USB 3.0 Type-C port.
The handset, as the company claims, features a unique variant of the Android home button, the U-Touch.
The U-Touch, as Zuk describes, has a 508 DPI low-power fingerprint sensor offering 0.31 second identification speed with high accuracy.
Talking about the power, the phone is claimed to support 120-minutes of talk time on a 5-minute charge.
"The Z1 is the world's first mobile phone supporting USB 3.0 Type-C, enabling a 500 MB/s bandwidth, 10 times faster than USB 2.0," said Zuk. The phone also has USB OTG support.
The Z1 supports dual SIM dual standby, which means users do not need to identify the primary and secondary SIM cards when mounting them.
Talking about the cameras, the Z1 sports a 13 megapixel CMOS rear camera with optical image stabilisation system. According to Zuk, it takes only 0.5 second to be ready for use, and focus completes in 0.3 second. At the front is a 8 megaixel shooter.
The phone runs Android 5.1.1-based Cyanogen 12.1 OS.
The Z1 was first unveiled to the world back in August last year.