With Mobile World Congress (MWC) just a few days from away now, where the first 5G phones are expected to be announced in heaps, Qualcomm has today announced its second generation of the 5G modem. The new modem, the Snapdragon X55, is a successor to the X50 released late last year. Most of the upcoming 5G smartphones are expected to feature Snapdragon’s X55 modem to enhance the connectivity and increase the speed significantly.

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The X50 modem focussed mostly on the smartphones and claimed to offer maximum download speed of 5 gigabits, which is less than the newest offering from the company, which promises to provide as much as 7 gigabits of download speed. In addition to the speed, it also claims to enhance the connectivity among devices and also allow for devices of different categories to be connected together. That surely hints to the fact that we can see the new modem chipset not only on the upcoming 5G-enabled smartphones but also on the Internet of Things (IoT) devices that primarily require various devices to be connected together via the internet.

Apart from faster download speeds and enhanced connectivity, which obviously are one of the most important aspects of the 5G network, the new X55 modem also promises to be more power-efficient. For which, it relies on an adaptive antenna that operates on a sub-6GHz 5G band to reduce the overall power consumption. While being power-efficient, the chipset utilizes the mmWave antenna module, which reduces the overall footprint and eventually, the space required inside the smartphone.

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