Taking a lead in this direction is the popular chip maker, Qualcomm who is reportedly working on a 5G supported smartphone. Sheriff Hanna, the marketing lead for LTE and 5G NR modems at Qualcomm recently tweeted of the world’s first 5G smartphone, which read: “Hard to believe that I have the world’s first 5G smartphone in my hand!”
— Sherif Hanna ? (@sherifhanna) October 25, 2017 The image above is a prototype of Qualcomm’s first mmWave 5G smartphone, which was developed to test and make necessary optimizations to their 5G mmWave performance within the constraints of a mobile form factor, according to Digit. Coming to its features, the rear of the phone has a horizontally aligned dual-camera and vertically aligned dual LED flash plus a Qualcomm Snapdragon logo at the bottom of the device. The smartphone is expected to support multimode 2G/3G/4G/5G bands. Besides these, no other details were divulged. Also, to ensure that the 5G tech is a success, Qualcomm is working with cellular carriers like Verizon and Sprint as well as parent company Softbank, on 5G tests and technology. The chip maker recently demonstrated the first-ever 5G data connection made by a single chip – the Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G at the 2017 Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit. The company was able to achieve download speed of more than one gigabit per second and an over-the-air connection using a tiny 28 GHz mmWave antenna module.
