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> Qualcomm says they will have 5G phones on the market in early 2019. Wow. Is the first 4G LTE phone coming in 2011 to the first 5G phone coming in 2019 what t
by mehrdadn 8y ago
> Qualcomm says they will have 5G phones on the market in early 2019.
Wow. Is the first 4G LTE phone coming in 2011 to the first 5G phone coming in 2019 what they envisioned as "long-term" evolution? I would've thought long-term would've meant like 15+ years.
- SkyPuncher 8y agoIt's all related to marketing. Someone got smart and learned that consumers don't like iterations of major wireless stuff. My understanding is "5G" is really what "4G LTE" was originally planned as.
- mehrdadn 8y agoDang, well I guess they got me with LTE, it does sound awesome. Not sure if I'll fall for it again though... 3G was actually slow, but with 4G I feel like network speeds are too fast for the servers to handle these days.
- Jedi72 8y agoMy conspiracy theory brain says this is mostly to do with network planning - Telcos make a lot more money from wireless.
- ksec 8y ago>My understanding is "5G" is really what "4G LTE" was originally planned as. It is not. 5G, NR mmWave are entirely new and has nothing to do with the original 4G vision, which was the 1Gbps Speed. Those are already supported with the latest LTE standard 3GPP Rel 14. Qualcomm and Intel both have modem support 2Gbps / 1.6 Gbps Speed.