According to Forutne, Qualcomm hopes to shift its focus from emphasizing the ability to download gigabit-per-second speeds to new applications supported by Gigabit LTE by working with T-Mobile, said Cristiano Amon, executive vice president of Qualcomm's Wireless Silicon Business Unit. Although everyone is talking about the peak rate of Gigabit LTE, but in fact the focus is higher average speed.Gloud LTE business manager Sherif Hanna also said Qualcomm hopes to show the benefits of practical applications, rather than the fastest speed, because no one will Believe, and therefore, Qualcomm has no intention of emphasizing speed.
However, QUALCOMM's proud gigabit transmission has not caused much ripple in the market as only about 6 major branded handsets released in the United States, including Samsung, are not supported by handsets powered by the same Intel model, including Samsung Electronics Galaxy S8 and LG Electronics V30's built-in gigabit speed Qualcomm Modem, which are only available in 2017, and Apple's new mobile phone iPhone 8 and iPhone X do not support this In addition, even T-Mobile has upgraded transmission networks in more than 400 markets, but other carriers have yet to follow suit.
For these reasons, even those consumers who resonate with Qualcomm-sponsored ad-promotion, Gigabit LTE, have a handful of consumers, Jan Dawson, an analyst at Jackdaw Research, said that actually makes no difference to consumers because having the gigabit level is a must Compatible devices, and network upgrades to support both conditions.
Qualcomm has incorporated several features into the Gigabit LTEModem chip, one of which is Carrier Aggregation (CA), which allows a single handset to communicate with one base station in two or four different frequency spectrums at the same time, and the available bandwidth can be greatly increased. Is 4X4 MIMO, which uses 4 antennas simultaneously for cell phone and base station for faster communication. The third is 256 QAM, which increases the amount of data to be transmitted. Qualcomm also adds a Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) The phone can communicate with the licensed spectrum.
Gigabit LTE will also pave the way for a new generation of 5G standards, said Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon, which supports 5G for each major element of Gigabit LTE. However, Qualcomm's future challenge is how to convince consumers that they need such a high-speed transmission technology.
It is reported that the speed of transmission per second gigabit, the phone can download general high-quality movies within 30 seconds, 10 gigabit per second speed can be completed in 3 seconds.With 4K, or even 8K movie launch, and virtual reality (VR) and real-time 360 degrees of software applications, perhaps users will recognize the importance of more bandwidth and faster transfer speed.