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Lenovo showcases 'disruptive products' at Tech World, including AR phone

By Han Shasha (People's Daily Online)    10:52, June 12, 2016

Yang Yuanqing, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo showcased the Moto Z modular phone at the 2016 Tech World in San Francisco on June 9, 2016. (People's Daily Online/Han Shasha)

Lenovo displayed and launched a handful of surprising products on Thursday at the 2016 Tech World conference in San Francisco witnessed by over a thousand attendees.

Yang Yuanqing, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo introduced his vision of the future for the company: device innovation, device plus cloud, and infrastructure. "The new era is all about connected computing. Lenovo is aggressively taking this opportunity. If a device is not deeply connected with the cloud, or not with intelligence, its users will be very limited," he said.

Yang announced its first Lenovo Phab2 Pro, the first commercially available phone with Google Tango. The smart phone enables users to do indoor navigation, measurement, playing dominos and other entertaining activities with its Tango mapping technology and next-generation depth-sensing smart cameras.

Chen Xudong, senior VP and co-president of Lenovo's mobile business group, told the reporter that Phab2 Pro is Lenovo's first AR phone. He said "We would like to provide a platform for AR developers." with years of developments, Augmented Reality (AR) is not new, however, many of the applications targets enterprise customers. There is not an open platform for content builders and app developers on smart phones. Now Phab2 Pro has two apps, including an educational one with kinds of dinosaurs, such as the Brontosaurus, Velociraptor, and the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Users could "create" virtual dinosaurs anywhere by clipping the app.

Another "disruptive" product showcased by Yang is Lenovo's Moto Z modular phone. Claiming to be the thinnest premium smart phone, the Moto Z is 5.2mm thick without any Mod accessories attached. And the Moto Z phone comes in a standard model and Moto Z Force version. The later one is thicker at 7mm. While the modular phone has some Moto Mods attached to the back of the phone via 16 magnetic dots to provide a new look, longer battery life, improved audio, a projector, or other extra features.

For instance, short battery life is always a headache for smart phone users. The Power Pack Mod adds a 2,220mAh cell to the back of the phone which will prolong the battery life to extra 22 hours. The Mods are integrated into the phone's software, so when a battery mod is attached to the phone, the user can monitor the charge status of both the internal battery and the mod's cell.

Yang also said at the conference that Lenovo offering a development kit for third-party companies to build Mods themselves. Lenovo's Capital and Incubator Group will set up a $1,000,000 fund for the developer who could develop the best prototype Mod by March 31st, 2017.

"Smart phone makers are willing to add more features to one phone once they thought it's an innovation. While users pay more attention on higher quality than on more innovation," said Chen, "After realizing that, we changed our strategy by making the thinnest phone and enabling users to customize their phone with added mods."

The Phab2 Pro will be available globally for $499 in September. And the Moto Z will be on market in the United States in Summer, and globally in September. In addition to the products that will soon come to market, Lenovo demonstrated two futuristic devices that are not yet products. Cell phones could be snapped onto wrists when one wear clothes without a pocket. Tablets could be folded up as a cell phone when one wants to watch big-screen photos while also needs a normal phone to talk. "Such devices require more than just flexible screen technology. Internal components need to bend for these products to work," Peter Hortensius, CTO of Lenovo told the cheering audience.

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(Editor:Wu Chengliang,Bianji)

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