With the popularity of 4G, people have experienced the convenience that high-speed networks bring to our lives as well as our work. As the technology continues to mature, the fifth generation of cell phone action communication standards have also been put on the agenda. Today, companies represented by Nokia, Qualcomm, and Ericsson are all seizing the 5G opportunity. Huawei, which started as a communication company, successfully took the control channel coding scheme for 5G eMBB scenarios on short codes last year, taking the lead for China's 5G business.
As we all know, in the 2G, 3G, and 4G era, foreign manufacturers have mastered the most core technology, Chinese cell phone companies can only be restricted by others, the most well-known thing is the lawsuit between Meizu and Qualcomm last year. Huawei took control of the short code means that the future of domestic enterprises will have a higher voice in the world.
When will 5G phones arrive? Now many countries have begun the pilot, and the first domestic 5G product is expected to be released in October this year, it is the Huawei Mate10. it has been confirmed that Huawei Mate10 will be equipped with Huawei's self-developed Hesi Kirin 970 processor, using a 6.0-inch full screen with a 2K resolution, and in addition to the third-generation Leica-certified dual camera.
And according to foreign media, Huawei's Hesion Kirin 970 supports the current 4G all-network pass system in addition to carrying 5G network functions! This means that Huawei Mate10 may be called the world's first officially released 5G products.
2G, 3G, 4G, every communication technology upgrade, will bring a new generation of cell phones, so before the 5G era is coming, what phones support 5G? Can you buy a 5G phone this year or not?
First of all, whether it's a 4G phone or a 5G phone, it's not determined by the brand of the phone, but by the communication chip behind the phone - the baseband. So what phones will support 5G, just look at the baseband.
There are three basebands that have been released on the market, Huawei's Baron 5G01 (albeit a large one), Qualcomm's X50, and Intel's XMM8060, so technically, we believe that the ones that will be able to go to 5G this year can only come from these guys.
Huawei naturally needless to say, if there is a 5G phone, it must be its flagship mate series, and Qualcomm side, in accordance with the consistent practice of Qualcomm in the past few years, this year, there is only a Snapdragon 845 is also very reasonable, but it is not difficult to imagine, Qualcomm because of the 5G this critical node, the release of a 5G version of the 845 is also possible.
If so, then the second half of the Samsung Note9, Xiaomi MIX3, etc., will support 5G, and Apple has always used Qualcomm, Intel's external baseband, so Apple may also be the earliest to support 5G phones.
However, at this stage, it is far from being a time when non-5G phones are not bought, although everywhere is pushing 5G, but the pilot has not been much, and when you really want to use 5G, the hands of the phone has long been eliminated, and there is really no need to dwell on it too much!
When your phone is still considering whether to replace the 4G network, you do not know that 5G is coming soon
China Telecom announced that its 5G site in Lanzhou has opened. So far, it has opened 5G pilots in Xiongan, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Suzhou, Chengdu, Lanzhou and other six cities and regions, 5G pilot work has entered a new stage
At the same time, relying on the characteristics of the 5G network of ultra-high bandwidth, super-large connectivity, ultra-low latency, in the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) of the new experience, haptic Internet, car networking, future-oriented flexible
Wireless communication applications in industries such as haptic Internet, automotive networking, and future-oriented flexible manufacturing, as well as cellular network-based real-time video backhaul and control of drones, and network slicing applications in vertical industries such as power grids, are being researched and experimented with.
Compared to the 4G network, 5G is 20 times faster than 4G (which is the same as the feeling of flying ~), in layman's terms, to download a 8GB HD movie, 4G network needs 8min, and 5G network as long as 6s
Of course, the brands of cell phone manufacturers are not willing to lag behind, December 4, walking in the 5G industry, Huawei is the first to speak out. Huawei at the forefront of the first voice, Huawei rotating CEO Xu Zhijun is expected to Huawei in 2018 to launch a full set of commercial solutions for 5G network equipment, Huawei's consumer business CEO Yu Chengdong is revealed, Huawei will launch its own 5G Kirin chip in 2019, synchronized with the launch of commercial 5G smartphones, 5G will bring a greater bandwidth, lower latency, and more powerful capabilities.
At the Snapdragon Summit in 2017, Xiaomi's founder, Lei Jun, argued that Xiaomi would undoubtedly be one of the first vendors to successfully release a 5G phone.
vivo will in 2018 will start the development of 5G terminal test prototypes, and plans to participate in operator scale trials, and in 2019 plans to launch 5G pre-commercial terminals.
In 5G OPPO joined a number of core international communication organizations such as 3GPP, GSMA, etc., and participated in the establishment of 5G standards from the initial demand development stage, and has cumulatively submitted a total of 670 technical manuscripts, which play an important role in a number of technical issues. Not only that, OPPO also conducts collaborative research with the world's top 5G academic institution, New York University,**** together to promote the development of 5G.
Samsung successfully tested its 5G network platform as early as 2013 with downlink rates of up to 1 Gbps. at the time, Samsung saw the launch of 5G phones in 2020, a goal that coincided with the EU. In February of this year, Samsung's 28GHz millimeter-wave RF chip designed for 5G infrastructure has been developed and will be officially published next year using the chip for 5G devices.
According to sources familiar with the matter, Apple Mobile is working closely with Intel on a future new version of the iPhone, which will support 5G wireless broadband. In addition, Apple engineers have been "in touch" with Intel about early work on 5G
Are you looking forward to the 5G era at this point?
From the transition from 3G to 4G, we probably know that the basic mainstream cell phone brands will slowly support 4G networks, and even if some places don't have 4G coverage yet, many cell phones have been sold with support for fast 4G networks.
One thing we can rest assured is that the popularity of 5G phones will be faster than the coverage of 5G networks! That means as soon as 5G networks are here, basically every phone brand on sale will support them.
Depending on which brand takes the lead in launching a phone that supports the 5G network, the big question mark is whether the Huawei Mate10 will support the 5G network, and there's no release of the iPhone 8! In addition to these two phones to see if there is a chance to support 5G networks, this year's sale of cell phones are not supported.
According to the manufacturer's urine point of view, the flagship models released in the second half of next year are likely to support 5G network, after all, this is one more publicity selling point ah. The 5G network is already being piloted in Guangzhou, and with the pilots, it proves that there are manufacturers who have produced 5G network devices for testing purposes.
5G network for the phone's biggest role should be to make the network connection more stable, video calls picture quality higher, etc., and for the speed of the 4G network speed has been enough to use, the video loading has been completely no problem, the download speed can be basically up to 50M broadband effect. And now there are basically not many people take the flow to download things, right...
At present, Snapdragon 835 processor and above is the only cell phone, other processors from the next generation of upgrades will be supported one after another, the fall release of the new flagship phone will be released one after another to support the 5G, the cell phone operators have been in the first-tier cities in some areas of the pilot run, 18-20 years or so will be in the big cities fully popularized, the traffic is biased towards unlimited traffic, each month monthly rent of about 200-500 between
2G era, 1G flow more than 10,000, 3G era 1G flow more than 500, 4G era 1G flow less than fifty dollars can be purchased, 5G era 1G flow is estimated to be about one dollar, then the package will basically be unlimited flow use, download a high-definition movie is also a second, the increase in network speed, will be a qualitative change in our lives, people will live more convenient. The newest addition to the list is the newest addition to the list, which is the newest addition to the list.
This year, Vivo, Jinli, Nubia three cell phones will be launched 5G cell phone, but in which quarter launched, what model, we do not know, but we can guess, general flagship cell phone will be used in its series of models of the most advanced technology, so this year, the three manufacturers are most likely to launch a smartphone to support 5G network is their next-generation flagship. .
In addition, Xiaomi's next-generation flagship phone is also expected to support 5G networks, because the chairman of Xiaomi has publicly stated that the processor that Xiaomi's next-generation flagship phone will use will be the Snapdragon 845, which supports 5G technology, so this year's Xiaomi's flagship phone will most likely also be a 5G phone.
Many people may wonder why Vivo, Jinli, Nubia, and Xiaomi are launching 5G phones, and why Huawei, which is ranked third in terms of global market share, hasn't launched a 5G phone. In fact, last year, Huawei has also announced that it will launch a 5G-enabled Kirin chip in 2019 and launch a 5G phone at the same time, and now it has also launched the world's first 5G commercial network in cooperation with Deutsche Telekom.
However, even if the major cell phone manufacturers launched smartphones supporting 5G networks, it is useless if there is no 5T network provided by carriers. According to CCTV, China Mobile is already carrying out 5G system prototype outfield construction and experiments, and may launch the first version of the 5G brand new standard this year, and enter the pre-commercial stage tomorrow, but to really do large-scale commercialization will have to wait until 2020. So, even if the 5G phone is really launched this year, we have to wait until 2020 to use it.
At the end of 2017, 3GPP, the standardization body for mobile communications, officially signed and adopted the first version of the 5G NSA standard in Portugal. According to the program of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), our 5G carrier band is the Sub 6GHz IF, which is also covered by this standard. This means we can use 5G-enabled phones by 2019 at the latest.
Last year, Qualcomm already said that the first 5G phone would be launched in the first half of 2019, and Huawei in the second half. ZTE, the so-called "5G pioneer", only showed its technology at CES 2018, and did not specify when it would launch a 5G-enabled phone.
Regarding what phones can support 5G in 2018, as far as the respondent knows, some domestic cell phone manufacturers will launch a series of phones.
Almost at the same time, Vivo, Jinli, Nubia and other domestic cell phone manufacturers have said that they will launch their own brand of the first 5G phone in 2018, the specific model has not yet been released. Among them, Nubia plans to launch a prototype of 5G in 2018 A 5G model in 2019.
In addition, the Russian brand YOTA Phone plans to launch a 5G phone for high-end elites in 2018.
In short, 2018 could kick off the year of 5G, but personally, I don't see a truly mature 5G phone launching until somewhere between 2019 and 2022.
As in the 4G era, Qualcomm still plays a critical role in providing device prototypes for 5G new air port testing. In fact last October, Qualcomm was the first in the world to launch a 5G network modem, the Snapdragon X50, which supports operation in sub-6GHz and multi-band millimeter wave spectrum.
Snapdragon X50 modem
A month ago, Qualcomm's Snapdragon X50 modem successfully "dialed in" the world's first officially released 5G data connection, achieving gigabit download speeds in tests utilizing several 100 MHz 5G carriers. Gigabit download rates were achieved in the test by utilizing several 100 MHz 5G carriers, and the data connection was demonstrated in the 28 GHz millimeter wave band.
At the same time, a reference design for the first 5G smartphone for vendors was also unveiled, featuring a built-in Snapdragon X50 5G modem, which helps vendors design 5G handsets by supporting test optimization for 5G technologies, such as the RF front-end design and antenna placement of the terminal, within reasonable power and size requirements of the handset.
First 5G smartphone reference design
Currently, this phone can achieve download rates of gigabit per second, and download speeds of up to 100MB/s for daily use, which means that 80% of your download needs can be taken care of in 1 second. A large volume handheld game like "King's Honor" will take up to 5 seconds, which is 20 times faster than your current network.
Unlike 4G, it's not just handset makers that are interested in 5G, but industries like driverless cars, telemedicine, and drones will also be mainstreamed by 5G, thanks to the significantly lower latency and high reliability of 5G networks. Additionally, gigabit download rates offer greater promise for emerging consumers of virtual reality, augmented reality, and cloud services, which are desperately waiting to be rescued from network speeds, as well as the millions of IoT devices that will be awakened by the high-capacity nature of 5G.
5G into more scenarios
Although the 5G new air port standard is not yet in place, Qualcomm has prepared early both in terms of technical difficulties and end-to-end design. Qualcomm has been a key participant in the 3GPP standards development, design of sub-6 GHz and millimeter-wave 5G new-airport prototyping systems, and interaction testing. So in the near future, Qualcomm will still be accelerating us into the 5G era, just as it did with 4G.
I'm afraid that commercial-grade 5G terminals will still be difficult to see in 2018. However, difficult to see does not equal to no, for example, in the beginning of the year time ZTE and other individual manufacturers in the MWC exhibition have launched their own 5G experimental terminal, but the specific specifications of the model as well as the brand and so on, the manufacturer did not reveal too much. In fact, in my opinion, some of the experimental 5G terminals have been seen, basically just to test the 5G network environment or part of the 5G equipment performance, in the specific commercial certainly can not meet the requirements.
In actuality, simply put, the key to the launch of 5G cell phones is the development of processor chips and basebands, and these basically have to look at Qualcomm and other individual processor manufacturing capabilities of the manufacturer's eyes, which is dominated by Qualcomm, Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor is said to be the industry's first market-oriented popularity of 5G terminal solutions. That is to say, as soon as the second half of the year, at the latest early next year after the launch of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, which phone is equipped with this processor, which phone supports 5G networks.
Of course, in addition to the processor integrated integration, can also be realized through the out-of-band approach, that is to say, with the out-of-body baseband, but this approach has been used by very few vendors, not only the high cost of manufacturing, but also heat, power consumption, unstable performance, and so on, a variety of possible drawbacks are many. Moreover, to engage in 5G baseband, you have to continue to look at the color of Qualcomm's eyes.
Of course, the second half of this year, Huawei's upcoming release of Huawei Mate20 equipped with the Kirin 980 is likely to also be a 5G commercial-grade processor, and if it can do a large-scale commercial range, it may be able to precede the debut of the first launch of the 5G commercial terminal Qualcomm. However, we need to take into account that Huawei's Kirin processor is only used by its own, even if it is the industry's first 5G commercialization, and this year it will be limited to Huawei's individual flagship processors.
In summary, in 2018, if you want to see a phone that supports 5G, one is to look at the performance of Huawei Mate20; the second is whether Qualcomm will release the Snapdragon 855 in advance, as well as which manufacturers first debut of this processor products; the third is to see whether Apple's A12 processor will have the support of the 5G side, but I feel that the likelihood is not very high, and Apple's baseband has always been sourced from Qualcomm. The A12 processor will have 5G support.