We are all waiting for 5G smartphones with super speed internet which will also pave the way for new 5G-related services like self-driving cars, large scale Internet of Things as well as new augmented and virtual reality applications, Finnish Nokia recently announced introducing its 4.9G technology. 5G technology networks are expected to arrive in 2018.
Large leap towards commercial realization of 5G!
In the new tech, the antenna which will be used sends network signals directly to the smartphones instead of broadcasting it in different directions. This is possible because of 3D beamforming technology, which will also be present in the 5G devices when they launch. Nokia made a press release, and according to it, the technology will lead to an improvement in uplink by 8 times, and downlink by at least 5 times on any network.
The 4.9/5G connection marks yet another Finnish contribution to the evolution of communications: the first GSM call was made in Finland more than 20 years ago using a network built by Nokia. This tradition continued with the world’s first 3G voice call, on a commercial 3GPP system in Finland in 2001, and then with the world’s first LTE call via commercial software in Germany in 2009.
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