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Why 5G for smartphones is just the start

Take a five-minute walk behind Qualcomm's main office in San Diego and you'll find an unlikely kind of lab. The cavernous room, previously used for storing office furniture and boxes, has become the mobile chip giant's testing ground for new wireless technologies, where it's working on 5G in ways you may not be expecting. While 5G means super-high speeds on our smartphones, that's really just the beginning.