Since 2017, Qualcomm, Intel and MediaTek have successively launched 5g baseband, and announced that it will be commercially available in 2019. For many users who bought the iPhone X in 2018, the 5g baseband launch came as a bolt from the blue. So does Apple mobile phone support 5g network technology? When will Apple 5g mobile phone go on the market?
Some people may think that the baseband of iPhone x supports 5g, but the current network does not support it. If you really think so, it's too young too simple. 5g network needs baseband support, while both Qualcomm's and Intel's 5g baseband will not be commercially available until next year, so there is no phone on the market that supports 5g network, including the upcoming 2018 iPhone X.
In 2020, it will be the time for large-scale commercial use of 5g network. When the operators try to prepare, the mobile phone manufacturers are not slack.
According to U.S. media reports, Apple has obtained the approval of the U.S. government to carry out small-scale 5g device communication experiments. Its use tests two radio bands, 28ghz and 39ghz, specifically two sites near Milpitas, California.
5g mobile phone is ready for everything, only Dongfeng
Although 5g mobile phones will not be launched this year, the development of 5g mobile phones is far faster than we think. Half a year after the release of 5g baseband, Qualcomm recently took the lead in releasing the world's first antenna module for mobile phones and other mobile devices that fully correspond to 5g NR millimeter wave and lower than 6GHz RF.
The module is composed of qtm052 millimeter wave antenna module family and qpm56xx RF module lower than 6GHz. It will be used with high pass x505g baseband. Poppur learned that the 5g antenna module qtm052 launched this time corresponds to 26.5 to 29.5ghz (n257), 27.5 to 28.35ghz (n261), and 37 to 40GHz (n260) millimeter wave, which can make 5g networking applications more comprehensive in the future. At the same time, the module also integrates 5gnr power amplification, low noise amplification, switching, filtering and other subsystem functions, and can also correspond to network signal MIMO applications.
According to Qualcomm's official introduction, they have cooperated with Xiaomi, Sony, Samsung, LG, HTC, oppo and other manufacturers. At present, the manufacturers are also carrying out various 5g tests. It is expected that a large number of 5g mobile phones will be launched next year. But interestingly, there was news that Apple would give up Qualcomm and choose to use Intel's 5g baseband. I don't know what the difference between Intel's 5g solution and Qualcomm's would be? Whose would be better?