BARCELONA—One of the hottest products of CES, the Le Max Pro from LeEco (formerly Letv) finally has a price in China: a mere $306, or less than half what Samsung is going to be charging for its Galaxy S7.
The Le Max Pro, of course, was the first phone announced with Qualcomm's brand-new Snapdragon 820 processor, the flagship chip now seen in both LG's G5 and Samsung's Galaxy S7 models.
We have a hands on from CES, where our Alex Colon found the massive 6.3-inch phablet to be the fastest phone he had seen yet. The Antutu benchmark score that he received of 132,000 was in the same ballpark as the scores on the pre-release Galaxy S7 models we've seen here at MWC.
LeEco is a major entertainment and electronics company in China that currently sells phones only in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and India. It competes heavily with other high-quality, low-cost Android providers that aren't available in the U.S., such as Xiaomi and Meizu, which is part of why we're seeing such a compellingly low price for this phone.
Oddly, LeEco still doesn't have a hard date for this phone, so we don't know whether it will come out before the Galaxy S7's launch date of March 11. If it was coming that soon, though, we'd probably have a date on it by now.
LeTV's Will Park said that the company hasn't announced availability in the U.S., but that it still intends to enter the U.S. with some products, at some time, in the near future.
This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.