In the mobile world, the real revolution of this year will not be the innovative design of a certain smartphone or who knows what a dedicated feature, but everything is based on 5G connectivity on which Xiaomi has already bet a long time, presenting the first smartphone with such technology, aka the Mi Mix 3 5G. Besides being the first 5G device, the Mi Mix 3 5G is also the cheapest on the market, but according to Raquel Sanz (Public Relations Manager of Xiaomi), the Chinese company respecting the philosophy that has always distinguished it from the various competitors, will bring 5G connectivity even on cheaper models.
Italy together with Spain for Xiaomi represents a priority market to focus on, so much so that in just one year Lei Jun's company in our country has recorded record numbers. Only three months ago, Xiaomi was awarded fourth place in sales both online and offline, through distribution channels like Mediaworld etc .. But it is perhaps the close partnership with mobile operators that certainly benefits Xiaomi even more, as the one that binds it to Vodafone, which just yesterday through a press event announced the launch of the Giga Network 5G network at consumer level, meaning that it can be used by all the various customers of the mobile operator.
Xiaomi pioneer of 5G connectivity in Italy
And Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G is one of the 3 devices chosen to excel in the field of 5G connectivity, which if the potential is not clear, I refer you to the extract of the official Vodafone press release which seems to clarify the ideas a lot:
The 5G technology will make it possible to support the exponential growth trend in the use of data traffic, the spread of the IoT and applications for personal use and for the productivity of businesses.
Data traffic will triple in the next 3 years, driven by video traffic which has already reached 70% of data consumption at the beginning of 2019. The spread of the IoT among companies has grown by 19% in the last year alone, the Cloud of 24% and Big Data by 18% (source: Assinform 2018). 39% of Italian companies plan to increase ICT investments in 2019 (source: Osservatori Digital Transfomation Academy and Intelligence). In the last year, connected devices have grown by 50% (source: GfK) and 30% of wearables adopt Artificial Intelligence algorithms (source: Gartner). Traffic on the Vodafone network to gaming lines almost tripled between April 2018 and April 2019.
The impact of 5G on the lives of citizens and businesses will be extraordinary. The effects of the 5G will be pervasive throughout the country's social fabric and will enable it to respond to the main trends underway: new tools for the health system, mobility, city management and security.
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With 5G, a Vodafone customer in Milan will be able, for example, to download an entire season of a TV series in two minutes while walking through Piazza Duomo, or an agri-food company in the related industries surrounding Bologna will be able to digitize its production and assembly chain from an Industry 4.0 perspective . A Napoli fan will be able to share a very high resolution video even in a very crowded place such as the San Paolo Stadium or in Piazza del Plebiscito. In Rome a tourist will be able to use 5G for Augmented and Virtual Reality applications in streaming during a visit to the Colosseum or in Turin a gamer can play in cloud streaming sitting in a bar in Piazza Castello.
For the business world, 5G opens up new opportunities and new business models. Vodafone, thanks to the integration of highly performing and secure connectivity with processing capacity at the edge of the network, is building a new development platform to offer its customers, collaborating with a selected set of partners, advanced ICT solutions and applications that will be certified. for optimal use of 5G.
Now we just have to wait for the various offers of other mobile telephony operators, considering that Xiaomi at 5G level has also formed alliances with TIM and H3G. And will you focus on this new technology or do you prefer to remain anchored to the previous generation until any health effects are clear and defined? At the moment it is possible to take advantage of the new data connection in the cities of Milan, Rome, Naples, Bologna and Turin.
