For weeks, Lenovo has been teasing a phone called the Lenovo Z5. It was interesting, unlike most Lenovo phones, because they had everyone under the assumption that it would buck the current hottest smartphone trend and have no notch. Why did we think that? Because, well, they showed us pictures of a phone with no notch as they built hype for it. As it turns out, that was all a lie. The phone has a notch, a chin, and looks like every other phone released within the past few months. It’s basically an iPhone X ripoff mashed together with a Huawei P20. I’m not sure it even deserves much of your time after the notchless song and dance Lenovo played before everyone, only to act now like everything is cool.
That aside, the phone basically looks like that Motorola One Power phone that keeps popping up. You know the phone, it’s the notch-filled guy with the vertical rear camera placement. If there is a takeaway here, it’s that we might have a preview of what to expect there.
As you can tell after looking at pictures here and at those Motorola One Power links, the phones have the exact same design for the most part. Sure, the Moto device isn’t all shiny, but the basic bones and layout are there. And it would make a lot of sense for Lenovo to hand over smartphone designs to Motorola if they want to try and get their smartphone division back on the right track. Think of it in a way like OPPO creating phones that almost always end up becoming OnePlus phones. I’m also not sure that there is anyone left at Motorola to design a phone or engineer one, since they keep laying off their talent there.
If the Z5 is the blueprint for Motorola One Power (jesus, that name sucks), the specs could look like this:
- 6.2-inch FHD+ display (2246×1080, 19:9)
- 6GB RAM + 64GB/128GB storage
- 16MP dual camera (f/2.0)
- Snapdragon 636 processor
- 3300mAh battery with 15W fast charging
- Gesture UI
Not bad, right? Couple all of that with a clean version of Android as a part of Android One and you might have a winner from Motorola.
// Lenovo
Meh…
I’m just curious about why “was” and “be” are set lowercase in the head. Both verbs. And especially if “all” is capped, at least “was” should be, per some style guide. Just the internet…
I’m actually embarrassed to say that I own a lenovo laptop. The lies!
1. The only people who seem to care about the notch are the writers of these articles. 2. Please stop calling every phone an IPhone ripoff. Samsung copies Apple. Apple copies Samsung. The other companies copy both of them. Most importantly, Apple copied the notch.
I see what you did there, Lienovo. Good way to earn people’s trust in your next marketing campaign.
No thanks. If I want an iPhone, I’ll get an iPhone. And I do not want an ugly iPhone.
AMOLED, or ips? If it’s amoleA, I might be a buyer.
For real…the Z5 (with notch) is real.
Ever heard of a period, bro?
I think I just saw an unboxing of this device on youtube….
It was an ingenious marketing strategy. Show fake sketches of a phone that would be a beautiful and unique design so people get the name of it and the release date. Then release a phone that doesn’t match it at all, and now they got their name in the press on talking about how the designs were fake and people talking about how it is actually nothing like what they said it would be.
If they had just come out with this phone without any of that, no one would even know it existed. Now everyone has been talking about it for weeks and knows its name. Everyone in the tech industry, at least.
I need a new phone like really soon but I’m running out of options. I don’t know which one to buy. Im probably going to go for the p20 pro. BTW not many options in Canada. I do like the lg V35 just released in USA but its exclusive to some carrier and cannot buy it.
Lenovo to everyone:
http://i.imgur.com/cn4bCjv.gif
So now we know with absolute certainty that whatever Lenovo says from here on out cannot be trusted. I mean, I already knew that! But this is for the people that don’t know.
A winner from Motorola in 2018?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f010a453242a92e32c1e95c054e5c44ed67c037db15271a4d4b73261314e0bea.gif
The only original Android posted here in months. And it comes with unlimited data! Zing!
This is stupid. Why lie Lenovo? Can’t be bothered
My favorite part of the promo video comes at 22 seconds, when they show that it has a 90 degree corner. SMH!
Wow what a rant! An appropriate one and well deserved one at that
This phone would have been nice if they could have had the 710 vs the 636.
I’m looking forward to downloading that wallpaper
Sure, just go find an iPhone X wallpaper pack.
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It bothers me how Lenovo posted teasers, sketches, and even mentioned a 95% STB Ratio to then just release this…
It actually really bothers me. That’s just sneaky garbage that we don’t need.
https://twitter.com/UniverseIce/status/1003933134398808064 Did you see this?
Lenovo are pieces of trash.