According to Digitimes, the 5G terminals, including smartphones, CPE and WiFi equipment, began to be sold in the market in 2019 and will not be shipped until 2021.
The 5G smartphone shipments will account for 97% of the total shipments of 2022 5G terminals and 18% of global smartphone shipments.
Operating in a non-independent (NSA) network-6GHz-band Environment, the 5G smartphone still needs to optimize its costs through modular front-end RF components and an SOC solution that runs the 4g/5g baseband chip and application processor.
Since the 5G smartphone is supposed to support millimeter wave transmissions, the millimeter wave is limited by its shorter wavelength, and the signal is susceptible to obstructions, so the 5G smartphone needs to configure 4-8 antenna arrays to enhance its signal reception capability, thus making the overall size and power consumption a new barrier to the production of 5G smartphones. 5G smartphone will start mass shipments from 2021