{"id":108491,"date":"2016-10-18T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108491"},"modified":"2016-10-18T09:37:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:37:28","slug":"qualcomm-unveils-the-worlds-first-5g-modem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/108491-qualcomm-unveils-the-worlds-first-5g-modem","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm unveils the world&#8217;s first 5G modem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm has unveiled its\u00a0first 5G modem, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qualcomm.com\/news\/snapdragon\/2016\/10\/17\/meet-snapdragon-x50-qualcomms-first-5g-modem\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Snapdragon X50<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the X50 will support download speeds of up to 5Gbps when used on 5G networks.<\/p>\n<p>The modem is expected to be made available in mobile devices during the first half of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Qualcomm said the modem is designed for\u00a0early 5G deployments, but there was little detail about whether the X50 will be used in only smartphones or mobile routers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OqSGyhFxQJs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/183276-qualcomms-new-chip-will-give-mobile-devices-5gbps-download-speeds.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to The 6 best smartphones you can buy in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/105703-the-6-best-smartphones-you-can-buy-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The 6 best smartphones you can buy in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm has unveiled the world&#8217;s first 5G modem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":108495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[20212,31,19565,22875],"class_list":["post-108491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-5g","tag-active","tag-modem","tag-qualcoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108497,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108491\/revisions\/108497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}