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Qualcomm Debuts World's First 10 Gigabit 5G Modem, Destined for 2022 iPhones
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Higher Speed downloading equals lower energy for the same amount of Data transferred.
Although most consumer dont sees the benefits because research has shown the faster you download the more you download. You are effectively limited by time. Not Data. Broadly speaking.
X65 is actually quite an amazing improvement. Samsung 4nm Node. 3GPP Rel 16 ( Which I would refer to as Real 5G ), Lots of power optimisation. At least it is more than I expected. Along with a new RF Front End system.
If they are marking it 4nm, it is also a signal that node to node porting are in the work. And Samsung 5nm are doing fine from a capacity perspective.
Weeeeeeeell… it's not quite that simple.
If you are going to download 1 GB of data, then getting it fast will probably be more energy efficient; but once you enter the real world you'll find that you have to deal with live streams and services not wanting to (or can't) hand you the data quick enough.
And then it comes down to the exact implementations; both at the receiving and the sending end.
well, you'd be surprised to know how little data you actually consume for most of the time.
i doubt. stuff can be produced on device far easier and far more scalable way compared to any streaming service. plus the latency it'd need to get to you would make you vomit due to sensory disorientation. that is the biggest empty claim of the 5G believers.
funny how i spent the last 4 years meeting with folks showing off AR assisted machine assembly and VR based QC... but all of those wanted us to invest into the tech (e.g. buy the solution from them) - and if you have access to knowhow and breakthrough tech "that can transform the future and will be trillions of $s worth in 2030", why'd you need some stupid MNO to make the investment and limit the reach of the service to their infra if you can bring the stuff to market yourselves?
even more funny is that the "super secret 5G/VR use cases" tried to replace a $20 torque wrench.
here i have the recipe: take any tech you have today, drop a vital element from it, snap on the 5G logo to and call it a future-proof sustainable solution.
From real life and real people. If you're relying on coverage maps, I suggest you throw those into a bin and set them on fire, they do not represent reality in any shape or form. According to coverage maps I get 4G in the middle of Dublin, and that's true. Speed however... on average 5Mbps. And I have travelled enough around to know the spottiness of 3G and 4G is fairly consistent across Europe and US for example. I had entire sections of the US where there was no signal at all, and then I had sections of Romania for example that had 38Mbps on 3G! So yeah, back to what I was saying, let's make bandwidth consistently decent across the globe, before boasting about 10Gbps connections.
"The modem has many other benefits, too, including improved power efficiency, enhanced coverage for both mmWave and sub-6 GHz bands, and support for all global commercialized mmWave frequencies"
Nothing from coverage maps, just real data from all over the globe as it's my job.
Faster is always better. Whether you 'need' it or not is besides the point. I don't really need the speed of my 12 Pro but I'm not complaining about it, it's rather nice actually. Same goes for my iPad, it's way too powerful for what it is and I will never use even 1/10th of its capabilities but it is amazing.
The faster something is, the more use you can get out of it and the longer it will last are the things that count. 5G modems are no different, you will only benefit with each newer generation.
The faster something is, the more use you can get out of it and the longer it will last are the things that count. 5G modems are no different, you will only benefit with each newer generation.