It contains Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 835 chips set and X16 modem, which are compatible with the Category 16 LTE standard needed to reach gigabit download speeds, Sprint said. The unnamed “forthcoming flagship smartphone” from Motorola used in the demo is coming out later this year. And customers in the real world are unlikely to reach the very top speeds unless they are quite close to an uncongested cell transmitter. Faster speeds will open the way to new applications like highly realistic virtual reality programs, but also may tax the carriers’ network capacity. The moves to raise speeds on current 4G LTE networks come as the carriers face several years of delay and technological hurdles in rolling out the next generation of wireless technology, known as 5G, which can reach multi-gigabit per second speeds. And AT&T (T) has said it will hit the mark at some of its cell sites later this year. The carrier has promised to be first to deploy gigabit speed equipment for customers. In January, T-Mobile (TMUS) and Ericsson (ERIC) used another unidentified phone to demonstrate download speeds of 979 megabits per second in a laboratory setting. The demonstration relied on new technologies included both in the phone and in a cell site transmitter.
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That speed is 10 to 20 times faster than the speed of typical 4G LTE downloads and quick enough to grab a high-definition digital movie file in under a minute. Using a pre-release Lenovo Motorola model that it didn’t identify, Sprint achieved download rates of over 705 megabits per second in the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans before an NBA basketball game on Wednesday night.
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