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I'm consistently puzzled why 5G versions of these SoC don't seem to exist for hardware hackers yet. I plain can't find any kind of 5G modem that isn't just a w

I'm consistently puzzled why 5G versions of these SoC don't seem to exist for hardware hackers yet. I plain can't find any kind of 5G modem that isn't just a whole phone unless I pay like $1,000.

cyberax 1y ago
There are some available. For example: https://www.quectel.com/product/5g-redcap-rg255c-gl-m2/ https://www.quectel.com/product/5g-redcap-rg255c-gl-m2/ - it costs around $120 per module. They have others: https://www.quectel.com/5g-iot-modules/ https://www.quectel.com/5g-iot-modules/ Which is pretty much what it costs for phone manufacturers right now. I guess the real reason is that 4G is more than sufficient for pretty much anything, and it's going to be supported for the foreseeable future?
- gunalx 1y ago
  Where I live we are already talking about abandoning 2g, and 4g. (3g died a while back and 2g was kept as legacy network).
  - cyberax 1y ago
    Really? Even satellites for off-grid messaging abandoned _5G_ and instead went with the good old LTE.