Yesterday, at the 3GPP plenary meeting held in the United States, the 5G New Air Port (NR) Independent Network (SA) function freeze was formally approved. This is also the first full 5G standard release. It also means that 5G commercial entry countdown.
It is reported that more than 600 representatives from major telecom operators, network equipment vendors, terminal and chip manufacturers, instrumentation manufacturers, Internet companies and other vertical industry companies have witnessed this historic moment.
According to the information released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology at the Digital China Construction Summit in April, China's first batch of 5G chips will be taped out before New Year's Day in 2019, and will be completed before and after the Spring Festival. According to the plan, 5G will start pre-commercial use in 2019, and commercial use will be carried out in the first half of the year. Base station construction, the first batch of 5G handsets was produced in the second half of the year and was officially commercialized in 2020.
Currently including Huawei, OPPO, Vivo, millet, and other major domestic mobile phone manufacturers have already announced that it will launch 5G mobile phones next year.
On December 3, 2017, at the 4th Wuzhen Internet Conference, Huawei Consumer CEO Yu Chengdong announced that Huawei plans to launch a Kirin chip supporting 5G technology in the second half of 2019, and will launch this support 5G technology in the same period. Smartphone.
On April 17, 2018, at the Huawei Global Analyst Conference, Huawei announced a product roadmap. According to Huawei's product strategy, its first mobile phone supporting 5G network will be officially released in the second half of 2019.
OPPO is also a promoter of 5G. As early as early 2015, OPPO formally established the 5G communication standard team and recruited many experts with long-term experience in international standards. Currently, 5G research strength is at the leading level among domestic mobile phone companies. The number of contributions submitted by OPPO in 3GPP ranks among the top global terminal companies. In terms of application exploration, OPPO announced in May that it has successfully implemented the world’s first 5G video call demonstration using 3D structured light technology.
On May 10, OPPO demonstrated at the 5G technology and 3D structured light technology demonstration in Shenzhen. In January 2018, OPPO and Qualcomm Technologies announced the 5G pilot program. They are committed to becoming the first terminal manufacturers to launch 5G mobile phones in 2019. .
Vivo was announced as early as December last year that it would first launch 5G mobile phones in 2019. Vivo CEO Shen Wei said in a speech that 5G may bring changes to the mobile phone industry. A sentence is summarized as follows: 4G changes life, 5G changes society.
At present, Xiaomi has no official news to announce the release date of 5G mobile phones. However, last year Qualcomm announced the '5G Pilotage' program in Beijing. Xiaomi is also a member of Xiaomi. This also means Xiaomi will take the lead in gaining 5G technical support. Qualcomm said 2019 The first batch of 5G technology flagship phones will be launched early in the year. By 2020, 5G phones will begin to become popular.
Apart from this, Lenovo, Wentai, etc. are also members of Qualcomm's '5G Pilot' program. They may also launch 5G mobile phones next year.