Samsung Galaxy S24 could be the first phone to support Wi-Fi 7
Among many Android mobile phones, Samsung is a brand that is at the forefront of the trend. Thanks to Samsung’s coverage of the upstream and downstream of the mobile phone supply chain, as well as its own scale and development strength, new designs, technologies, or functions are often introduced first.
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According to DigiTimes, the current Wi-Fi 6E is just a transitional technology, and manufacturers will quickly turn to Wi-Fi 7, and soon there will be manufacturers using mobile phones equipped with Wi-Fi 7 modules for testing. Phones that support Wi-Fi 7 are expected to start shipping as early as the second half of 2024. Samsung’s Galaxy S24 is likely to be the first device to support the new Wi-Fi technology, by introducing technologies such as 320MHz bandwidth and 4096-QAM modulation, when equipped with the same number of antennas as Wi-Fi 6, the data transfer rate can be increased by 2.4% times.
The current data transfer rate of Wi-Fi 6 is 9.6 Gbps, according to the Wi-Fi Alliance, the data transfer rate of Wi-Fi 7 can reach at least 30 Gbps, and it is even expected to increase to 40 Gbps in the future. There is a lot of room for improvement.
Intel recently announced that it has completed the industry’s first cross-vendor demonstration with Broadcom, achieving a Wi-Fi 7 milestone with wireless data transfer rates exceeding 5Gbps. In this experiment, a Wi-Fi 7 wireless solution was used through a laptop with a Core processor to connect to Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 7 wireless access point. Intel is currently developing Wi-Fi 7 chips and hopes to get certified as soon as possible so that they can be equipped in PC products such as laptops in 2024, and it is expected to become mainstream in 2025.
