Undoubtedly, we are in the season of presentations and, as good lovers of the world of telecommunications, surely a little more speed in your internet connection from your mobile does not hurt. To go one step further on this topic Qualcomm surprises us with the presentation of his new Snapdragon X20, a modem capable of offering download speeds of up to 1,2 Gbps.
As has been officially commented from Qualcomm itself, apparently the new Snapdragon X20 is the ideal successor to the well-known X16 LTE, which in turn was presented in February 2016 and that, as a detail, was capable of supporting speeds of up to 1,0 Gbps taking advantage of category 10 of the 4G network. In turn, the X20 is the first to hit the market capable of supporting LTE category 18, which allows increase your download speed by 20%.
Qualcomm does not expect the arrival of the first terminals equipped with the Snapdragon X20 until mid-2018.
Entering a somewhat more technical level, it seems that the download speed of the Snapdragon X20 has been significantly increased thanks to the use of Carrier Aggregation technology, which allows you to make use of a maximum of five bands of 20 Mhz while using licensed and unlicensed FDD and TDD frequencies. As a detail, tell you that this new modem will also have 4 × 4 MIMO.
Thanks to all this arsenal of technology integrated into a modem whose size is minimal, it is possible to work with up to 12 data streams simultaneously in three 20 Mhz bands. Regarding upload speed issues, as Qualcomm experts have communicated, your new modem will be able to work with two 20 Mhz bands offering one 150 Mbps maximum speed.