5G iPhone is coming in 2020

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, a trusted source of Apple rumors, is betting that we’ll see the first 5G iPhones in 2020, The Verge reports.

It was rumored Apple might have a 5G iPhone by 2020, but it was slated to use an Intel radio chip. Apple chose to go with Qualcomm instead, forcing Intel to close up its 5G modem shop. That came at a great cost: Apple agreed to settle all its pending lawsuits with Qualcomm and spent at least USD 4.5 billion to secure the chipmaker’s cooperation, for the sake of the iPhone’s future.

Kuo now claims that the 5G phone is coming in 2020. Both a new, smaller 5.4-inch iPhone and a even larger 6.7-inch one will have 5G support in 2020, according to Kuo’s prediction. He also says all three of Apple’s 2020 iPhones — including a low-cost 6.1-inch iPhone XR successor that’ll stay on LTE for now — will feature the vibrant colors and inky blacks of OLED screens, as opposed to the cheaper LCD panel you see in today’s XR and that will reportedly stick around for the 2019 model.

That means every iPhone will theoretically have an OLED panel in 2020. Kuo expects all of them will have 5G support in 2021, with Apple having the opportunity to switch from Qualcomm radios to its own in-house modems in 2022 or 2023.

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