This week Apple introduced new laptops and tablets, but not all experts believe that the company will be able to avoid delaying the autumn debut of new generation smartphones, which should include models with support for 5G networks. Under the current conditions, this announcement this year may not take place at all.
This forecast was shared on the pages of the resource analysts at Wedbush who lost confidence in Apple's ability to bring 5G-enabled iPhone models to customers this year. Firstly, the normal preparation of the announcement will be hampered by the expanding and tightening quarantine. Second, component suppliers in Asia are yet to recover from its effects. Thirdly, no one can yet predict when life on the planet will return to normal conditions.
A purely technical problem can also intervene in the situation, if we recall the February about this theme. As it recently became known, Apple chose to rely on Qualcomm Snapdragon X5 modems when releasing the first 55G smartphones of the brand, although it only recently concluded a truce in the “patent war” with this counterparty. The design of the antenna proposed by Qualcomm may not suit Apple due to the increased thickness of the iPhone case. A company can get a thinner body by offering its own antenna design.
Some sources consider the truce with Qualcomm to be a necessary measure, since in the future Apple expects to switch to the use of modems of its own design, which patents and specialists from the specialized division of Intel, which, as a result of the deal, came under its control last year, will help create. The global troubles of this year may force Apple to postpone the debut of its 5G-enabled smartphones until better times, because the expansion of specialized communication networks will be limited, and competitors will not find themselves in more favorable conditions.
Source: 3dnews.ru