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iPhone 11 Apparently my iPhone 11 is 5G. Who's Jealous?

My iPhone 8 has this. I am sure everyone is different, but for me in the small town I live in, I get well over 120 down. Probably not that big of a deal to some, but before when it was on LTE where I live, the speed was about 20 to 50 down (depending on location), once I hit around 100 but that was just once about a year and a half ago. Have been to several parts of the county and have watched my iPhone 8 change from 5Ge to LTE and 4G. I live in a very small town and was surprised to see this, which rolled out a couple weeks ago. I drove to a much larger town last Friday which is closer to a bigger city and it dropped to LTE and the speeds were slower. I am sure it is marketing, but I have noticed speed increases for what its worth. I guess I don't really care what the indicator is as long as the service works.
 
5Gehehehehehehehehehe

That's what the 'e' behind 5G stands for. Didn't realize people still fall for AT&T's fake 5G.
 
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5G is specifically a hardware solution as it is a completely different communications method which is used for 4G LTE. I don't see how apple would add 5G (which cost more money to add) and then turn it out as a "surprise". I would suspect any company to use 5G as a way to upgrade and their plan for that would be for next year.

Also does anyone remember when 4G first started, it was horrible. I would wait for maturity.
 
5GE is not 5G. It's LTE rebranded as 5G.
They may well call it 6GPE"6G Pre-evolution" or 11GPRO MAX and nobody would care.
 
kargurin said:
This is probably a joke but it means nothing. I have a Note 10+ and it says 5G also in certain areas (I didn't buy the 5G version). Just means that it sees a 5G signal not necessarily that it can process it.
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It doesn't mean it "sees a 5G signal." It sees a 4G AT&T signal and they are lying liars.
 
Beelzbub said:
My iPhone 8 has this. I am sure everyone is different, but for me in the small town I live in, I get well over 120 down. Probably not that big of a deal to some, but before when it was on LTE where I live, the speed was about 20 to 50 down (depending on location), once I hit around 100 but that was just once about a year and a half ago. Have been to several parts of the county and have watched my iPhone 8 change from 5Ge to LTE and 4G. I live in a very small town and was surprised to see this, which rolled out a couple weeks ago. I drove to a much larger town last Friday which is closer to a bigger city and it dropped to LTE and the speeds were slower. I am sure it is marketing, but I have noticed speed increases for what its worth. I guess I don't really care what the indicator is as long as the service works.
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Yes there are faster speeds with “5Ge,” but the name 100% marketing. It’s just LTE with more backbone capacity and slightly tweaked signaling.

Here’s the same speeds without lying from a carrier that doesn’t lie (as much). Edit: this is T-Mobile. I thought it said that in the screen shot but I was mistaken.

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I still can’t believe AT&T got away calling it 5Ge. Here in Australia they market the faster LTE as 4GX, which at least makes some sense. This 5Ge nonsense will just confuse people.
 
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Jimmy James said:
Perceived unique advantage and OP takes a position of superiority?

In victory, unbeatable.
In defeat, unbearable.
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Jimmy James said:
Comments like this make it so easy to identify people with self-absorbed views.
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Comments like this show people who can't see a simple joke, and prefer to attack and insult others over what should have been a light hearted chuckle.
 
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