Lixin Cheng, CEO of the United States’ division of ZTE, officially announced the ”late 2018 or early 2019” arrival of ZTE’s first 5G smartphone. Exact date of release depends on, quote, ”availability of 5G networks and the requisite chipsets”. Both Verizon and AT&T have announced that they will be rolling out their own 5G networks by the end of the year, so the 5G connectivity of ZTE will actually be useful. T-Mobile wants to do the same by 2020.