This week we've gotten a bit of a look at the next Lenovo smartphone, and with it, a tease of what's to come from Motorola. As Motorola is part of Lenovo, we've been able to look back and forth between companies to sort of gauge next steps in either company's smartphone strategy for the past couple years. Now, here with the Lenovo Z5s on the horizon, we're able to see how a future Moto device might go beyond the basics.
If there are two things missing from Qualcomm's big Snapdragon 8cx announcement today, it's 5G and actual hardware. The chip-maker has been talking up fifth-generation networks all week at its Snapdragon Summit 2018, making it a key pillar of the Snapdragon 855 mobile processor which will start showing up in smartphones early in the new year. It's also had hardware partners on-stage to talk launch plans.
It seems that Lenovo just loves taking its remaining smartphone fans for a ride. It was chided just a few months back for misleading them into thinking that the Lenovo Z5 would have an all-screen face. That didn’t happen until until the Lenovo Z5 Pro and its sliding camera. Now it seems that it has another variant in the works, one that rides on the latest trends that puts a very visible hole right in the middle of the Lenovo Z5s’ forehead.
Lenovo is back with another X-series laptop, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme. This model joins the X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga, bringing the same general design aesthetic alongside the promise of handling demanding computing tasks "without a hitch." The Extreme model is designed for users with extreme needs -- both in terms of portability and performance. How well does it meet those needs?
Black Friday isn't quite here, but the deals are already showing up, and if you're in the market for a Lenovo Smart Display then you're in luck. The Google Assistant powered smart display launched back in May, but the 8-inch model is already seeing a better than half price discount as part of one pre-Black Friday sale.
Remember the Lenovo Z5? Yes, that smartphone that Lenovo itself hyped with a bezel-less and notchless design which turned out to have a notch after all. Whether it was just trolling or had other plans in mind, the backlash may have forced the Chinese OEM’s hand into stepping up its schedule. Because based on a fresh batch of leaked photos, the Lenovo Z5 Pro, taking its name from that infamous Z5, might finally deliver what Lenovo promised in the first place.
Sony Online Entertainment today announced that it has struck a new patent licensing deal with Lenovo. The agreement will allow Lenovo to license the design of the PlayStation VR for use its own Mirage Solo headset. What this agreement ultimately means is, at the moment at least, anyone's guess.
The Lenovo Smart Display is on the receiving end of the same new features made available on the Google Home Hub. Lenovo confirmed the new features on its Smart Display forum, saying that users will get access to multi-room audio, Nest Hello Doorbell, and more. The features are arriving over the next few weeks in software version 3.63.43.
The year 2019 might well contain more than one watershed moment for Motorola under Lenovo. Sources today say that Motorola will likely remove several smartphone lines from their lineup while they expand one: Moto G. If all goes as planned, the release of the Moto G7 in 2019 will remind us of the launch of the original Moto G all the way back in the year 2013.
We’re almost near the end of the year and if Samsung and Huawei make good their “promises”, they would give the world a peek at their foldable smartphone or tablets before 2018 comes to a close. They’re not the only ones playing that game, however. As early as 2016, Lenovo has been showing of prototypes rather than just being all talk. This week, right at the start of its Tech World Conference 2018, yet another prototype was spotted. And yes, it works. Whether it’s usable or ready, however, is still an unanswered question.
We’ve seen all kinds of desktop PC designs, ranging from the utilitarian to the outlandishly lit. The latter is often the purview of PC gamers but at its Tech World Conference in China, Lenovo is appealing to a different circle of geekdom. The name and shape should probably be familiar to anyone familiar with pop culture of the last we decades. But what some might not be aware of is that the Lenovo Titanium Enterprise NCC-1701A is more than just a faithful, not to mention licensed, replica of the iconic spaceship, it’s also a high-end, not to mention expensive, PC.
Just because it already owns Motorola doesn’t mean Lenovo has stopped making its own smartphones. In some markets (really only in China), Motorola’s name means squat while Lenovo’s brand resonates more loudly. Or perhaps it used to before the age of Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo, and OnePlus. To prove that it still has what it takes, Lenovo will soon be launching its high-end Lenovo Z5 Pro that will adopt a trendy new design that its compatriots have tried once and then abandoned.