AVM: New FRITZ! products with 5G, WiFi 6 and more Smart Home at IFA 2019
from David Wurm 
on September 03, 2019, 17:00 | Write a comment
AVM has to start the IFA 2019 in Berlin today new products announced. There is a new FRITZ! Boxes with WiFi 6 and 5G, a smart lamp and a button with a thermostat.
First there are three new FRITZ! Boxes with the new WiFi 6 standard - this enables faster data rates in the WLAN with all compatible devices. A lower ping and latency can also be expected. Then there is a 5G FRITZ! Box, which can be operated with any standard SIM card. Then there is a smart LED lamp and a new button for the smart home, which now shows the temperature on the display.
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FRITZ! Boxes with WiFi 6
Three new boxes are currently being considered for the new WiFi 6 standard. There is the FRITZ! Box 5550, which hardly differs from the FRITZ! Box 5530 but is a little faster with the LAN connections. The cable box is of course intended for cable connections. We have listed the exact technical data directly below.
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FRITZ! 5550
- For all common fiber optic connections in Europe: GPON, AON, XG-PON, XGS-PON, via SFP module (Small Form Factor)
- Data transport via DSL technology G.fast over the house cabling
- 2 × 2 Wi-Fi 6 (WLAN AX) with up to 3 GBit / s; 2,4 GHz: 600 Mbit / s (QAM1024) and 5 GHz: 2.400 Mbit / s (HE160)
- One 2,5 Gigabit LAN port (standard IEEE 802.3bz, NBase-T)
- DECT base for up to 6 telephones and smart home applications
- A connection for analog telephone or fax
- FRITZ! OS: with parental controls, media server, mesh convenience, FRITZ! NAS, wireless guest access, MyFRITZ! and much more
- Available in the first half of 1, price will follow at market launch
FRITZ! 5530
- For all common fiber optic connections in Europe: GPON, AON, XG-PON, XGS-PON, via SFP module (Small Form Factor)
- 2 × 2 Wi-Fi 6 (WLAN AX) with up to 3 GBit / s; 2,4 GHz: 600 Mbit / s (QAM1024) and 5 GHz: 2.400 Mbit / s (HE160)
- One 2,5 Gigabit LAN port (standard IEEE 802.3bz, NBase-T)
- Two gigabit LAN ports
- DECT base for up to 6 telephones and smart home applications
- A connection for analog telephone or fax
- FRITZ! OS: with parental controls, media server, mesh convenience, FRITZ! NAS, wireless guest access, MyFRITZ! and much more
- Available in the first half of 1, price will follow at market launch
FRITZ! Box 6660 Cable
- 2 × 2 OFDM DOCSIS 3.1 channel bundling
- 32 × 8 DOCSIS 3.0 channel bundling
- 2 × 2 Wi-Fi 6 (WLAN AX) with up to 3 GBit / s; 2,4 GHz: 600 Mbit / s (QAM1024) and 5 GHz: 2400 Mbit / s (HE160)
- One 2,5 Gigabit LAN port (standard IEEE 802.3bz, NBase-T)
- Four gigabit LAN ports
- One USB 2.0 port
- DECT base for up to 6 telephones and smart home applications
- A connection for analog telephone or fax
- FRITZ! OS: with Mesh, parental controls, media server, FRITZ! NAS, wireless guest access, MyFRITZ! Etc.
- Available at the end of 2019, price will follow at market launch
FRITZ! Box with 5G
The new FRITZ! Box with 5G can currently download up to 2 Gbit / s, which cannot even be tested in this country. Most of the time, we currently manage around 5 Gbit / s with the 1G masts. Unfortunately, this will no longer appear this year - only in the 1st quarter of 2020. Here, too, the price is still unclear.
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FRITZ! Box 6850 5G
- 5G router with 4 x 4 MIMO with Qualcomm SD X55 chipset
- 5G band support: Sub-6 GHz
- LTE (4G) for band 1, 3, 7, 8, 20, 28, 32
- Also supports UMTS (3G)
- Dual band WLAN AC + N with up to 1.266 Mbit / s
- Two SMA connectors for attaching external antennas
- Four gigabit LAN ports and 1 USB 3.0 connection
- Telephone system and DECT base for up to six telephones and smart home applications
- Connection for analog telephone or fax
- FRITZ! OS: with Mesh, parental controls, media server, FRITZ! NAS, wireless guest access, MyFRITZ! and much more
- Available in Q1 / 2020, price will follow at market launch
Smart home accessories
Three new smart home products were also officially introduced. There are new FRITZ!Dect buttons, together with a smart LED bulb. The latter can be controlled – like Philips Hue lamps – via an app, which AVM will soon be releasing in a new version. Then there will be a completely new FRITZ!Smart Home app.
FRITZ! Dect 500 (LED lamp)
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- LED lamp with smart control for white and colored light
- Full color spectrum for individual lighting
- Continuously dimmable brightness (806 lumens)
- Color temperature warm white to cold white (2.700K - 6.500 K)
- Control of the lamps via FRITZ! App, FRITZ! Fon, FRITZ! DECT 440/400 and browser-based
- Integrate securely into the FRITZ! Home network via DECT ULE
- For E27 sockets
- Energy class A +, 1-9 W
- Automatic updates with new functions
- Available in quarter 1/2020, price will follow at market launch
FRITZ! DECT 440
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- The remote control for the smart home network
- Four configurable buttons for convenient operation of FRITZ! products for Smart Home
- E-paper display
- Temperature sensor for controlling the FRITZ! Radiator controller FRITZ! DECT 301
- Switches FRITZ! DECT 200 and FRITZ! DECT 210 wirelessly, individually and in groups
- Compatible with every FRITZ! Box with a DECT base via DECT-ULE radio
- LED as confirmation of the keystroke
- Easy to use, handy design
- Versatile use, both portable and stationary
- Flexible use with magnetic wall bracket
- Dimensions: 69 x 69 x 18 mm
- Available in quarter 1/2020, price will follow at market launch
If the products will be exhibited at IFA 2019, we will certainly take a look.