Later last week, Xiaomi showed off a render of its upcoming Mi Mix 3 flagship that revealed its notch-dodging slider mechanism, and now Xiaomi product management director Donovan Sung has followed up this announcement with a picture that shows another feature of this smartphone: 5G support.
The Mi Mix 3 is set to be launched in October, which makes it far earlier than any 5G networks that are going to be up and running. However, Sung says the company can’t wait for the official release of the 5G next year.
As for the people’s expectation from Xiaomi’s precise implementation of 5G, Sung Donovan cites download speed that is more than 10x faster than 4G network speeds, which is not much to go with given the huge variation in 4G technologies.
Sharing one more photo. Does anyone see anything interesting? 😎#Xiaomi pic.twitter.com/LjZGibMsuR— Donovan Sung (@donovansung) September 3, 2018
The photo shows the Mi Mix 3 using various bands at a test facility, with one LTE connection that could be an anchor band for the 5G connectivity. However, it does not really tell us a lot about the phone’s conceptual capabilities.
Many will depend on the kind of networks that operators actually use all over the world.
Although, this is the most notable device with the 5G support that has been announced to date. Huawei and LG have both announced plans to release 5G supported phones in the first half of next year.
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