The Lenovo Legion Smarphone uses the Sentons GamingBar.
The Lenovo Legion Smarphone uses the Sentons GamingBar.
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Lenovo, Asus, and Tencent launch mobile game phones with Sentons GamingBar virtual buttons

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Sentons has teamed up with Lenovo, Asus, and Tencent to create gaming smartphones with virtual buttons, which use controllers that sense gestures such as presses, swipes, and taps.

Lenovo has come up with the Legion Smartphone, while Tencent and Asus created the Rog Phone 3 using Sentons’ tech. The San Jose, California-based Sentons powers its virtual buttons with a technology it calls software-defined surfaces (SDS) and it’s adding an SDS GamingBar that improves your gameplay experience with mobile games, said Sentons CEO Jess Lee in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.