Imagine a smartphone that not only adapts to a user’s every need, but also supercharges everyday tasks, infusing everything from productivity to gaming with groundbreaking performance. This is not just another mobile phone, it is the quantum-powered smartphone, a cutting-edge technology with a stunning minimalist aesthetic that users will want to hold onto.
Game-changing innovation
This potentially game-changing innovation centers around the quantum chip, an innovation that provides limitless power and mind-blowing performance, running complex tasks and handling everything from intense gaming to complex apps and even real-time 3D rendering. The quantum chip enables quantum smartphone users to immerse themselves in their online activities, providing power that goes beyond traditional limits with a device that is as suitable for work as it is for play.
Imagine a mobile phone that recognizes a user’s needs before they do. Thanks to integrated AI assistants, quantum smartphones learn from and adapt to users’ routines, managing their apps, optimizing gaming performance, and even adjusting phone settings for the task at hand, be it editing a video, running a game, or checking emails.
Quantum computing is a technological class that involves applying the principles of quantum mechanics, including quantum entanglement and quantum superposition. While the definition may be somewhat bewildering for the uninitiated, in reality, you do not even need to know what quantum computing is to put it to good use.
Smartphones and quantum technology
Modern smartphones are a form of quantum technology that uses semiconductors to put quantum physics to work. Smartphone users and the engineers who designed the devices do not need to understand the precise mechanics of quantum computing.
Nevertheless, the innovation poses game-changing potential in an array of everyday activities, providing more reliable navigation systems, more powerful computing, more secure communications, and more accurate healthcare imaging through innovations like quantum sensing.
Building blocks of digital electronic logic
Each smartphone contains billions of semiconductor elements working together as the building blocks of digital electronic logic thanks to the principles of quantum mechanics. Although the average smartphone is not quite a quantum computer—yet—in the future smartphones are expected to incorporate an increasing array of modern quantum technologies. Take for example quantum simulation to extend battery life, quantum key distribution to enhance communication security, and quantum sensors to facilitate more precise navigation. While quantum computers may remain large and cumbersome items for some time, it is entirely possible that at some point in the not-too-distant future smartphone users could start to access their services via the Internet, enabling them to identify better routes and avoid traffic congestion, for example.
In September 2024, Samsung launched the Galaxy Quantum 5, a Galaxy A55 smartphone variant featuring a cybersecurity chip designed to make online banking more secure. Integrating an ID Quantique quantum random number generator (QRNG) chipset with the Samsung Knox security, encryption and authentication platform, the new model was only released in the South Korean market. The Galaxy Quantum 5 generates genuinely random, unpredictable numbers to protect login, payment, authentication, unlock, and password generation procedures, including sensitive information such as fingerprints and Face ID used for screen unlocking and identification. The ID Quantique QRNG chipset provides an additional layer of security, safeguarding on-device data and that stored in external memory.
AI capabilities
Yoo Chul-joon, who serves as the head of SK Telecom’s Smart Device CT department, highlighted the premium performance and AI features of the Galaxy Quantum 5 as enhancing the completeness of Samsung’s Quantum series. Mr. Chul-joon explained that through SK Telecom’s collaboration with Samsung, it hoped to present security and AI capabilities at a reasonable price via the Galaxy Quantum 5, reaffirming the network provider’s commitment to ensuring that customers enjoy a convenient telecommunications experience.
With cybersecurity threats increasing in frequency and tenacity, before smartphone users start dreaming of all the apps they can download on a palm-based quantum computer, manufacturers need to ensure the security of their data. Quantum number generator chips represent impressive baby steps forward into the quantum era, bolstering the security of devices and protecting customers from bad actors.
Strengthening service security
Incorporating the world’s smallest QRNG chipset, the Galaxy Quantum 5 strengthens service security by generating encryption keys. All services operate via an encryption-decryption process when data is exchanged or stored, a Samsung spokesperson suggested. In many ways, the handset is designed to mitigate the threat posed by quantum computers, its quantum security technology a countermeasure against quantum computers which, in the wrong hands, pose the potential to do significant harm.
Along with artificial intelligence, quantum computing has become the latest buzz phrase in the world of telecommunications. Combining cutting-edge quantum technology with its proprietary Knox security platform, Samsung claims its fifth-generation quantum smartphone offers unprecedented security for mobile services and applications. Known as the S2Q000, ID Quantique’s QRNG chipset in theory makes encryption keys unpredictable, and therefore, unhackable, the tiny chipset safeguarding sensitive processes like payments, authentication, and device unlocking.
Although it falls short in terms of a breakthrough in the broader sense of quantum computing, the Samsung Galaxy Quantum 5 represents a positive step forward in cybersecurity protection, helping the model stand out in a crowded market.