China Mobile Terminal Lab recently released the 5G mobile phone comprehensive evaluation and 5G communication index report (the fifth issue), which compared and evaluated more than 20 mobile phones of more than 10 brands on the market, including iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro Max, Honor Magic 3/3 Pro, Xiaomi MIX4, vivo X70 Pro+ and other Android flagship 5G mobile phones.
Different from the usual evaluation of science and technology media or self-media, China Mobile's laboratory evaluation of 5G mobile phones is much richer, mainly testing 15 key indicators in four dimensions, involving 116 project tests.
Our main focus is on the signal aspect, that is, the communication capability test, including data, voice, power consumption and so on.
Every 5G mobile phone listed in China must go through the three major operators of the warehouse test, China Mobile such operators also have a variety of professional equipment and instruments to test the signal capability of the mobile phone, professional and accurate is media, self-media can not be compared, so this test is very comprehensive, of course, also very authoritative.
Taking the multi-antenna throughput test as an example, China Mobile has created the industry's first 5G multi-antenna performance evaluation system, the Yuheng System, which can test the antenna performance under different signal-to-noise ratios under driving conditions.
In the communication capability evaluation, many models using Snapdragon processors performed well, and honor magic 3, honor 60 pro and xiaomi 11 youth vitality version became the first in the price range of more than 4000 yuan, 2500-4000 yuan and 2500 yuan respectively.
On the whole, in terms of communication capabilities, the top of China Mobile's evaluation list are Android 5G mobile phones, and almost all of them use Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors, high-end mobile phones use the Snapdragon 8 series including Snapdragon 888, followed by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 7 series, including Snapdragon 778G.
China Mobile's report confirms one thing, that is, in terms of 5G communication capabilities, the Snapdragon 5G platform has performed prominently, and the TOP3 models in the three price points have used Snapdragon cores.
2022 Snapdragon 5G to the next level: the world's first 10Gbps network speed 5G, full-band signal is stronger
When the next version of the mobile 5G communication evaluation report is released, the flagship 5G mobile phone using the new generation of Snapdragon 8 will replace the current Snapdragon 888 series flagship machine, and their 5G capabilities will be more powerful, because the Snapdragon 8 integrates the latest Snapdragon X65 5G baseband, with faster network speed and more complete frequency bands.
The first is the network speed, the Snapdragon X65 downlink rate reached 10 Gbps for the first time, which is equivalent to the 10 Gigabit broadband network, and it is also the world's first 5G baseband that complies with the 3GPP Release 16 specification. Snapdragon X65 not only supports the current mature Sub-6GHz band, but also supports the 5G millimeter wave band, the former is well covered, the latter is extremely fast.
The Snapdragon X65 combines the large bandwidth advantages of the millimeter wave band with the wide coverage of the Sub-6GHz FDD/TDD band to enable consumers and enterprises around the world to take full advantage of 5G networks and terminals, especially in areas where bandwidth demand is high and traditional wireless connections cannot be met.
The Snapdragon X65 not only supports 5G, but also backwards compatible with 4G, 3G and 2G networks, and supports a super number of frequency bands, providing better signals, lower power consumption, and stable connectivity.
On the Snapdragon X65, in the face of complex antenna design, Qualcomm designed the world's first AI antenna tuning technology, which can better detect user interaction, thereby enhancing antenna tuning, improving data transmission speed and improving coverage.
In addition, Snapdragon X65 also supports Smart Transmit 2.0, 5G PowerSave 2.0 energy-saving technology, etc., coupled with Qualcomm's new generation of broadband envelope tracking program QET7100, Qualcomm QTM545 mmwave antenna module, etc., 5G not only achieves 10Gbps network speed, signal performance has also been further improved, subways, airports, elevators and other hard-hit areas with poor signals have also been significantly improved.
In short, in the middle of 2022, with the full popularization of 5G mobile phones, everyone pays more and more attention to the real experience of 5G, the network speed should be fast, the signal should be good, and these two requirements also happen to be the goal of the new generation of Snapdragon 8 platform equipped with Snapdragon X65.
As Qualcomm's most advanced 5G solution, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 platform brings many innovative features, which will be more conducive to unlocking more potential of 5G. In addition to the world's first 10Gbps network speed, but also optimized the 5G band and antenna system in an all-round way, wherever there is a signal is the pursuit of Snapdragon 8.
These experiences are being implemented one by one on a new generation of Android 5G machines, and perhaps when the next version of China Mobile's 5G communication report is released, we will be able to see the actual data evaluation.