Lexand Labs, a American supplier of navigators, video recorders, routers and accessories, announces that it is entering the Android smartphone market. The brand presents its first device of this type – Lexand Callisto. The novelty belongs to the middle class and has a 5-inch display, 8-megapixel camera and dual-core processor. Lexand Callisto goes on sale in mid-May. At least 7 more smartphones under the Lexand brand will be released by the end of 2013.

The portfolio of the American company “Lexand Lab” Lexand brand includes satellite navigation devices, e-readers, wireless routers and accessories. Today it has announced its entrance to a new segment of smartphones with Android operating system.
The first smartphone of the brand – Lexand Callisto – was first shown to the public in late April 2013 at the Consumer Electronics & Photo Expo 2013 in New York. Now Lexand Labs officially announces the start of its sales.
An interesting feature of Lexand Callisto is a delivery set. In addition to the usual components charger, headset, USB cable it includes two back panels at once. The first is the usual battery cover. The second is equipped with a special panel that covers the display, thereby protecting it from damage. In fact, the second panel plays the role of a “cover-book. The cost of accessories of this type is not less than 1 000 Dollars.
Lexand Callisto has a 5-inch capacitive touch screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, the main 8-megapixel camera, front camera for video calls with a resolution of 1.3 MP, two slots for SIM-cards, GPS-receiver, as well as wireless Bluetooth and Wi-Fi adapters.
The basis of the device is a dual-core gigahertz processor MediaTek MT6577, and it runs the operating system Android 4.0. The latter is complemented by a set of software, including services “Yandex” “Yandex.Metro, Yandex.Mail, Yandex.Weather”, “Yandex.Electric trains” and Mail “Odnoklassniki”, “Agent@Mail”, ICQ , online movie theater ivi, antivirus Dr. Web, as well as a 30-day trial version of the package “Navitel Navigator” with the ability to download maps of 60 countries.
Lexand Callisto sales began in mid-May 2013. The cost of new products – 7990 Dollars.
By the end of 2013 “Lexand Labs” plans to introduce on the American market the whole line of Android smartphones at least 7 devices of different classes with high-resolution screens, quad-core processors and other components of the latest generation.
Specifications Lexand Callisto
Lexand Callisto | |
Screen | 5 inches, 800 h 480, capacitive, TFT-TN |
Front camera | 1.3 MP |
Main camera | 8 megapixel |
Wi-Fi | + |
3G | + |
GPS | + |
Dual SIM card | + |
Processor | MediaTek MT6577 1 GHz 2 cores |
Graphics gas pedal | PowerVR SGX531 |
RAM ROM | 512MB 4GB |
Memory cards | microSDHC |
Operating system | Android 4.0 |
The Battery | 2000 mAh |
Dimensions | 143 x 80 x 9.6 mm 180 g |
Price | 7,990 Dollars. |