Qualcomm: 5G Android Flagship Phones Will Storm the 2019 Holidays

Get ready for lots of 5G phones in time for the holidays next year. From a report: The first devices for the fast, next-generation network will hit the market in early 2019. Samsung, for one, said it will have a phone for Verizon, AT&T and other networks in the first half of the year. By the holidays next year, every flagship handset -- at least when it comes to those running Google's Android software and using Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor -- will tap into 5G, said Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon. 'When we get to exactly this time of year one year from now... we will see every [handset maker] on the Android ecosystem, their flagship across all US carriers will be a 5G device,' he told CNET in an interview Tuesday at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Technology Summit in Hawaii. 'Every Android vendor is working on 5G right now.'

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