Quite the opposite of CES in Las Vegas. This is how the Mobile World Congress of this edition has been, in which 5G technology has been the main protagonist. Not only because most operators have presented proposals that show the great advantages that the new networks will bring, but also because of the appearance of what will be smartphones that will allow us to download video content from mid-2019. for example, 10 times faster than today.
We saw 5G smart terminals from Samsung, the S10 5G, which won’t hit the market until the middle of the year; also from Huawei, Mate X, which also has a flexible screen and its own development for the fold of the same and to which they have dedicated three years; or the LG V50 ThinQ, of which we do not know the date and marketing price; Mi MIX 3 5G will be the bet of the Xiaomi brand , which did dare to price its equipment, 599 euros, and say that it would be marketed in May; Oppo, which did not show any 5G equipment, said it would be the first manufacturer to launch a smartphone with these features. But we could also see, in an airtight urn and sheathed up to the eyebrows since you could only see the screen, a prototype of the also Chinese One Plus, or the ZTE Axon 10 Pro 5G.
All these devices, except the Huawei Mate X with 5G that carries its own processor manufactured by the Chinese brand, will carry the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 mobile platform. Yes, Qualcomm (specifically, its CEO Cristiano Amon) walked from presentation to presentation to announce that in 2019 about thirty smartphones with its chipset will be marketed. Quite a triumph, although they will not be the only ones. Unisoc, Intel, Mediatek and Huawei itself will also introduce their transistors in the devices that will flood the markets in the coming years.
Of flexible, folding screens, we have only been able to see them, most of them, in showcases , although we were able to touch and see in a little more detail that of the Huawei Mate X 5G. We will have time to talk about her, and about others that you can see in this gallery.
