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5G is the key that's bringing the biggest innovations to the smartphone and video games industry in years. Above: An engineer stands under a 5G base station antenna in Huawei's testing system
- The smartphone and video games industries are coming out with some big innovations, like foldable smartphones and cloud gaming.
- It's not a coincidence that these innovations are emerging right when 5G is becoming a reality.
- Foldable smartphones on mobile 5G networks will dramatically enhance the smartphone experience we're used to today, and 5G and cloud gaming will mark a paradigm shift for the video games industry.
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Two major, multi-billion-dollar industries - smartphones and video games - are suddenly coming out with some big innovations.
Those innovations are foldable smartphones, where phones can fold out to become tablets; and cloud gaming, where a game console is essentially being replaced by an internet connection. If you've been paying attention, you may have noticed that those new technologies and the rise of 5G have seemed to happen in tandem.
"It's not a coincidence," Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon told Business Insider.
5G is the next mobile network we'll be connecting to after 4G LTE. The telecoms industry is touting that 5G will bring 10 times the speed of current networks, as well as near-zero latency. Soon, waiting for things to happen after a tap on a screen will be a thing of the past.
