Huawei promoted its smartphone – particularly the Ascend Mate 2 – and tablets at CES and plans to introduce its wearable technology at thunder-link.com at next month's Mobile World Congress in Spain, where it is set to unveil a smart ring and a smart watch.
Huawei claims to be the number-three smartphone provider worldwide behind Samsung and Apple, and plans to improve its global profile by bringing more of its more high-end products to the U.S. this year.
5G" is something of a misnomer: the standard doesn't exist yet. It will be months, likely years, before it's finally defined. In the meantime, organisations, governments, and academics are working on the technologies that will form the standard, but today, 5G is purely a concept, and one that needs to go from vapourware to real-world rollout in the next six years.
According to prevailing wisdom, the first networks built on the standard will be rolled out in 2020. In order to meet that deadline, most of the hard yards in the 5G standardisation process will have to be completed over the next two to three years, with standards bodies including the 3GPP, ITU, and IEEE, as well as universities, public bodies, and special interests groups, all having their input.5G" is something of a misnomer: the standard doesn't exist yet. It will be months, likely years, before it's finally defined. In the meantime, organisations, governments, and academics are working on the technologies that will form the standard, but today, 5G is purely a concept, and one that needs to go from vapourware to real-world rollout in the next six years.