Although there’s no wide-scale support for 5G yet, there are phones that support the 5th generation of cellular technology. However, it will cost you more than a standard flagship phone in 2019. That said, MediaTek might change the fact as it introduces its 7nm SoC sporting the Helio M70 5G modem.
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The company didn’t dwell into the details of its first 7nm chipset, but there are interesting things to take note of. Its 7nm 5G SoC comes with ARM’s latest Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU. Furthermore, it comes with advanced AI processing unit (APU) for balanced power, performance, and speed.
The highlight, of course, the Helio M70 5G modem, is a multi-mode type that allows 4G and 5G (via stand-alone and non-stand alone sub-6GHz network) connections. Although it doesn’t support mmWave, you don’t have to worry about it (unless you live in the US) as most parts of the world will use sub-6GHz. Regarding speeds, M70 can reach up to 4.7Gbps download and up to 2.5Gbps upload.
Other than that, support for 4K 60fps video encode/decode and super-high resolution camera at 80MP is present.
MediaTek’s 7nm 5G chipset is set to be available in commercial devices by Q1 2020.
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