On September 27, at the Lenovo Innovation and Technology Conference, Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, said, 'Many manufacturers announced that they will announce the launch of 5G mobile phones next year. Now there is no suspense in competition. Lenovo has released the world's first 5G Ready in August this year. Mobile phone moto z3, the mobile phone connection module can be turned into a 5G mobile phone'.
Yang Yuanqing said, 'The 5G module (Lenovo 5G), which can be used as a 5G access hub, will also be introduced to the market in early 2019. By then, Lenovo will become the first manufacturer to provide 5G experience for mobile users.
On August 2, 2018, according to foreign media reports, Lenovo announced that it would become the first company in the world to launch 5G smart phones, and its 5G smart phones will use Qualcomm chips that have not yet been launched.
On August 4, Yang Yuanqing published an article in LinkedIn, saying that Lenovo's new Moto Z3 and Moto Mod for Motorola have access to Verizon's 5G network. This is the world's first mobile device that can access Verizon's upcoming mobile 5G network. But smartphones are only part of the 5G opportunity.
Not only that, Lenovo vice president Chang Cheng said that Lenovo will launch the world's first 5G smartphone and use Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset. Although Qualcomm has not officially launched Snapdragon 855, it is believed to have been produced since June. And it is likely to appear on new phones launched in late 2018 and early 2019.
Previously, Huawei had said that it would release the world's first 5G mobile phone in June 2019.