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Qualcomm Says Over 30 5G-Enabled Devices Will Launch This Year (venturebeat.com)
2019 will be "the year of 5G", Qualcomm says. The company today announced that over 30 5G devices, mostly smartphones, will launch in 2019. From a report: According to Qualcomm, the company has won almost all of the chip contracts underlying 5G deployments for 2019 -- a claim that appears to track with announcements we've heard from individual OEMS, but may be challenged by 5G modem making rival Intel at its own CES press conference this week. [...] During Qualcomm's 5G Summit in December, both Verizon and AT&T announced that they will be releasing Samsung-developed 5G smartphones in 2019 -- notably using Qualcomm 5G modems.
Just so we're all on the same page here, it uses 24–86 GHz so if you are wearing clothes, are behind a wet leaf on a tree, there's snow/fog/rain, are around a corner, or otherwise don't have flawless line of site to the 5G tower, or as I like to call it, short distance router, you're not going to have 5 bars and full throughput. These towers have approximately the same range as a really nice router and since the waves can't pass through basically anything, coverage is spotty and there's a rumor they had to turn the transmission levels up to dangerous and ionizing levels. So 5G is a lie, a scam, won't work, and you'll never get anywhere near the speed they say you will plus a tower has to be built on every street corner or something ridiculous like that.
or the fake shit they're (at&t, et al) advertising now?
and how many years until it is deployed in areas like storm lake, iowa or devils lake, north dakota.. and not be limited to the largest profit centers (the big metro areas; i.e. 'cherry picked' markets)?
I mean we JUST got a story about AT&T faking 5G, then Qualcomm announces how there will be all this 5G. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what is going on.
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This is "5g", not actual 5g.
Actual 5g, the one talked about previously, is impracticable because literally everything stops it besides the air. (but heavy moisture / rain will!)
To have feasible, practicable 5g, you'd need to cover every street in transceivers. Basically at lamp-post distances.
Beamforming has been shown not to work well as of now, which is why everyone has started hyping up this fake-shit and likely dangerous "5g" knock-off. Doesn't need to be ionizing to cause damage, just powerful enough. (see bright lights, or don't)
I'm glad I live in a town that took Google nearly a decade to update the map imagery for, and too cheap to buy modern maps so had maps from the 90s on display. I saw my childhood.
City folks can be the guinea pigs all they want. They are already a wreck. Hopefully Cali is the first, and it sterilizes them. All of them. Come onnnn heat! Deform those sperm!
5G, like AI, not really. Its 4G+ and algorithms.
2024, but yeah that's your first Female president right there.
Oh, did you mean 50 phone models?
Have gnu, will travel.
Meh, my AT&T phone already supports it. And not just simple 5G, but the faster 5G Enhanced!
I've been wondering: as a customer, as a (dumb) user, what does 5G brings me ? Faster speed, I suppose, OK. But what for ?
Maybe I'd pay for 5G if it brings useful stuff - new apps, better apps - but not just a new buzzword standard that I don't really understand.
Seems that telcos are pushing 4G, 5G,... just because they need something new to sell. They are not thinking about customer value. Will not take them very far.
Rarely see anyone mention Iowa, let alone mention Storm Lake, Iowa. Small world.