One of the products you announced at the show is
the Lenovo Yoga 5G laptop. There are a couple of
ways to look at that. Is this just a laptop with 5G
built in, or is this a genuinely new type of product
that’s going to enable new use cases?
I honestly believe it will generate a lot of new use cases.
People aren’t looking for 5G. What people care about is
download times, low latency. That’s what people care
about. And 5G just enables that. I still think we have a
long way to go; it’s just a start. Just one space. But the
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video collaboration. Imagine having 5G in hospitals and
doing remote surgeries, and so on. So to me, 5G is a
game-changer, and we’re really bullish on it. And the
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one to the Yoga 5G PC, but it’s just a start on that
innovation.
How can people follow what Lenovo is doing,
follow what you’re doing and now all of your great
customer-experience design research?
My Twitter handle is @dilipbhatia, so people can follow
me on that.
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People aren’t
looking for 5G.
What people
care about is
download
times, low
latency. And
5G just
enables that.