Lenovo Legion Y70 debuts with 8,000mAh battery, SD 8 Gen 5 and 144Hz screen

Lenovo is back into the smartphone-making game with the Legion Y70 (2026). The Chinese brand hasn’t released a phone under its own name since the Y90 in 2022.

We knew most, if not all, about the Legion Y70 from the various teasers leading up to this announcement. It’s a gaming phone with solid specs and a bonkers 8,000mAh battery with 90W charging and bypass charging capabilities.

The Legion Y70 packs the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (the non-Elite) SoC with 12GB or 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM, running at up to 9,600Mbps. There’s 256GB of UFS 4.1-speed storage.

Cooling is handled by a 5,500mm2 vapor…