Lenovo carved out a distinct segment with its Legion line of gaming smartphones that includes spectacular specs and gimmicks like SSD RAID storage and pop-out cameras. Now, the corporate is exiting the gaming telephone enterprise utterly, it informed Android Authority. 

“Lenovo is discontinuing its Android-based Legion cell gaming telephones as a part of a wider enterprise transformation and gaming portfolio consolidation. As a frontrunner in gaming units and options, Lenovo is dedicated to advancing the gaming class throughout type elements, in addition to specializing in the place it will possibly carry essentially the most worth to the worldwide gaming group,” a spokesperson mentioned.

Lenovo’s gaming smartphone woes probably sprung from the truth that it failed to determine the Legion model outdoors of China. It poached a lot of workers from the ASUS ROG crew initially, so it was clearly dedicated to cell gaming early on. Its final Legion-branded telephone was the marginally lower-end Y70 introduced final August, however the remaining flagship Y90 was launched over a 12 months in the past in February 2022.

With Lenovo out, that leaves simply ASUS with its ROG gaming smartphone lineup, together with the Nubia Purple Magic and Xiaomi’s Black Shark — although the latter just lately laid off a big chunk of its workforce. Lenovo will probably now deal with its Moto line together with particular fashions just like the ThinkPhone.