Huawei phones do not support 5G? The official solution is up!

Everyone on the earth knows that the biggest dilemma of huawei mobile phones at present is the loss of chip supply, especially 5G-related chips. Even huawei's current P50 series flagship, due to chip supply problems, currently does not support 5G networks, which also seriously affects the sales of Huawei's flagship mobile phones.

However, the latest news is that Huawei seems to have found an "emergency" solution: plug-in 5G mobile phone case.

It is reported that the Huawei team has made a 5G mobile phone case, and installing it on Huawei's 4G mobile phone can achieve support for 5G networks. However, it is still unclear the official launch time of this 5G mobile phone case, and it is understood that the first models to use 5G mobile phone cases are the Nova10 series and the Mate 50 series.

The two models are expected to be officially released later this year.

However, although the time to market has not yet been determined, the relevant product spy photos have been leaked. From the photos, the first model adapted to Huawei's 5G mobile phone case is the Huawei P50 series, the mobile phone case and the mobile phone are connected through the USB-C port at the bottom, and the mobile phone case itself also provides a USB-C expansion port to achieve the need to power the device and transmit data.

But at the same time, it can be seen that this 5G mobile phone case is much thicker than the general mobile phone case due to the integration of some 5G communication modules inside. Judging from the information provided by the pictures, the credibility of this legendary 5G mobile phone case is still very high.

This "plug-in 5G" approach is actually not the first of Huawei. In the early years, there was a kind of "apple peel" product on the market, and the two actually had great similarities in principle and application scheme.

In the early years, the iPhone was very expensive, but the iPod Touch in Apple's hardware products was less than half the price of the iPhone. But it can install apps, take photos, and achieve many of the core functions of the iPhone. There is no way to make mobile communications, to make phone calls.

So soon there was a built-in communication module, SIM card slot and built-in battery iPod Touch case, installed on this shell iPod Touch can be answered and called. Of course, the premise is that you need to jailbreak the iPod Touch before you can use it. Even ZTE, a well-known domestic manufacturer, also produced apple skin accessories ZTE Peel in the early days and passed the FCC certification.

Even in recent years, this kind of plug-in mobile phone case products are actually not in the minority. For example, the Moto Z3 released in 2018, when it was officially called the world's first commercial 5G network mobile phone. It is with the help of the modular concept of Z series mobile phones that a 5G Moto Mod has been launched for Z3.

5G Moto Mod built-in a 2000mAh battery, the module has a complete 5G modem and antenna, with the help of 5G Moto Mod can make Moto Z4, Moto Z3, Moto Z2 and other models to achieve 5G network connection.

Released in 2019, the Red Devils game phone 3, Nubia also launched a 5G armor for this phone, through this accessory, this Snapdragon 855 4G flagship can achieve 5G network connectivity.

It can be seen that with the help of these plug-in accessories to achieve higher specifications of network and communication support, it is actually a common practice in the entire mobile phone industry. But in fact, this scheme still has certain drawbacks in experience:

First of all, this solution is not as stable as the built-in 5G solution of 5G mobile phones in terms of communication stability. Especially the early accessories such as apple peels have actually been criticized by users in terms of experience.

The second is that this external 5G module requires additional power supply. At this time, there are two options, either use the battery inside the phone to power the plug-in. But in this way, it is bound to weaken the battery life of the phone itself. Either the battery module is integrated inside the phone case, which in turn causes the volume thickness of the phone case itself to increase. It should be pointed out in particular that this plug-in 5G mode is definitely more demanding in terms of power consumption.

So from any point of view, 5G phone cases are not a perfect alternative, or there is no way to stop it. Even if Motorola and the Red Devils quickly abandoned the 5G plug-in solution after the 5G was fully launched.

Of course, for Huawei, these core components such as 5G baseband chips and RF antennas integrated inside the 5G mobile phone case still have no mature domestic alternatives. So in fact, Huawei is still facing the problem of missing core components, even with a 5G plug-in mobile phone case, consumers are willing to buy, it is still impossible to fundamentally solve the 5G support problem of Huawei mobile phones.

On the contrary, I think that although the Huawei P50 series does not currently support 5G, the experience level most of the time is actually not much different from other 5G mobile phones. If you think about it, what are the application scenarios of the current 5G network? If you really like Huawei phones, then in the short term, you don't have to worry about the fact that it doesn't support 5G.