You’d never know by looking that the bricklike phone pictured above is one of the fastest devices on the planet. It’s a prototype design that Qualcomm made to showcase 5G, but it — and another prototype made by Samsung — prove that the age of 5G phones and networks is coming fast.
Qualcomm invited Samsung, Verizon and AT&T to its Snapdragon Technology Summit this week in Maui, Hawaii, where the company has gathered partners to talk up their plans for 5G in 2019. But Samsung and the networks did more than just talk.
