OnePlus 5G with Snapdragon 855 arrives in Q2 19
On Finnish carrier Elisa
Finland is the land of Nokia and Nokia is a big player in the 5G infrastructure. This is why Finnish telecommunication carrier Elisa plans to launch a OnePlus 5G enabled device in the second quarter of 2019.
Samsung S10, 10+, 5G and fold are a Qualcomm win
855, 5G, ultrasonic sensor
The Galaxy S10 series and the Galaxy Fold are the next chapter in Samsung’s history and the company decided to use multiple Qualcomm products to power the S10, 10+ and the Galaxy S10 5G.
Samsung Galaxy S10 5G is a different beast
5G behemoth coming this spring
It is obvious that Samsung is betting big on 5G and it is obviously big enough bet to make a dedicated flagship Galaxy S10 5G smartphone, featuring a bigger screen, beefier battery, and a four rear camera setup.
Snapdragon 855 is the only AP for 5G
From the house of Qualcomm
Next week will be a great leap forward in the 5G journey for the whole industry and we just wanted to set one thing straight. It turns out that Snapdragon 855 will be the only application processor SoC from Qualcomm for 5G phones and that 845 remains 4G only.
Apple is making its own modem
Reuters confirmed what we said in December
Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies, was rumored to become a new Intel CEO but instead he got a rocky ride to build a modem for Apple. This is again our "we told you so moment" as we suggested that this will happen and the last time we wrote about it was in mid-December, or months before Reuters.
German government wants Huawei 5G
Still the cheapest option
The German government wants to avoid excluding products offered by China’s Huawei Technologies in the build-out of the 5G network in Germany.
Are Putin’s teams out to slow down 5G adoption?
Fake news targeting 5G
Conspiracy nuts are starting to target 5G development based on what Infowars and Russian backed fake news sites are telling them.
Apple gives blessing to AT&T’s fake 5G E network
Saves having to provide the tech
Under the bonnet of iOS 12.2 update Apple is claiming it can run AT&T’s “5G E” standard on iPhones.
Merkel sets out condition for Huawei's 5G participation
This might miff the US
While the US is leaning on its allies to cut all ties to Chinese companies and get Huawei blacklisted from lucrative 5G projects, the Germans appear to be being more pragmatic.
Xilinx had a record quarter
Things to get better
Xilinx is a company that makes great products and technology but in the past didn’t manage to penetrate the mainstream IT media’s due to the complexity of its products. That is all changing now, the company with its Datacenter, AI, 5G and Automotive aspirations managed to grab a lot of attention and score 34 percent year on year growth.