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.

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Just FYI

[slashmydots]

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.

Re:Just FYI

[sdinfoserv]

well, yes.
And the FCC is busy rewriting code (legal code) to strip local municipalities of their right to manage their open spaces and licensing revenue forcing muni's to permit carriers to mount transmitters on every single light pole, building corner, sign or bump of dirt the carrier desires under the blanket of a "master contract".
It's not like 5G is a just a bogus label over 4G or anything.. right? https://www.theverge.com/2019/...
oops.

Re:Just FYI

[ShanghaiBill]

there's a rumor they had to turn the transmission levels up to dangerous and ionizing levels.

Did you sleep through high school physics? Increasing the intensity of radiation does not make it ionizing. Only increasing the frequency can do that.

Disclaimer: Yes, if you increase the intensity enough, you will get thermal ionization. But then you no longer need a furnace or an oven. Just set the turkey on the kitchen counter, and let the cell tower cook it!

Do they include the AT&T 5GE?

[gurps_npc]

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.