The laptop giant Lenovo, quietly released a new smartphone yesterday in the Eastern European country called Russia. The new device is called Vibe A, and is the successor of the Lenovo A1000 that was released last year. The A1 is a low end device unlike its predecessor but might be justified by the price tag. This is the one of the first series of devices to be released after the Lenovo brought into Motorola.

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Lenovo seems to be settling on naming its non-Moto handsets Vibe followed by one letter, and as such the Vibe A could be considered the first of a new series. Undoubtedly, the A line is to be thought of as pushing the limits of how low-end a smartphone can be in this day and age.

The Vibe A has a 4-inch 800x480 touchscreen, a 5 MP fixed-focus rear camera with LED flash, a 0.3 MP fixed-focus front-facing unit, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of expandable storage, and a 1,700 mAh battery. It's powered by the Spreadtrum SC7731 SoC (with a 1.3 GHz quad-core CPU), and it runs Android 5.1 Lollipop. It will have dual-SIM functionality in some markets, but doesn't support 4G LTE networks.

Its dimensions are 124.5 x 64 x 10.6 mm, and it weighs 132g. It will be offered in black and white color versions. With such specs, clearly pricing will be the only deciding factor for people purchasing this model.  512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage on Android are worth it in 2016 when people across Nigeria what their phone to do much more for them at a very fast speed and less lagging.

The price of $120 dollar (33, 600 Naira) is also too high with the fact that Chinese manufacturers are selling better quality device within the price bracket in Nigeria.