Chinese company LeEco entered the US market earlier this month by starting to sell smartphones, smart TVs, and smart bicycles through its LeMall website.
Starting December 1st you’ll be able to find LeEco products at US retail stores. LeEco says Amazon, Best Buy, and Target will all be carrying its devices.
LeEco is also partnering with AT&T in some sort of cross-promotion deal involving the new DirecTV Now internet TV service. Between November 29th and January 5th, if you buy a Le S3 or Le Pro3 smartphone or the cheapest/smallest of the company’s new smart TVs and you get a 3 month subscription to the internet TV service.
Buy a bigger TV and you get 6 to 12 months of access, depending on the model.
The LeEco Le Pro3 smartphone is a $399 device with a 5.5 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, stereo speakers, a USB Type-C port (but not headphone jack), a 4,070 mAh battery, NFC, a fingerprint sensor, Quick Charge 3.0 support, an IR port, and 16MP rear and 8MP front cameras.
The Le S3 is a $249 model with a Snapdragon 652 processor, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and a 3,000 mAh battery.
Both phones ship with Android 6.0 with LeEco’s Ecosystem User Interface, or eui.
