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All this speed is irrelevant with current data caps. Even "unlimited" is throttled after 25 GB or so. Being able to reach your data cap in 10 seconds isn't exactly something to get excited about.


Higher data caps? Most carriers do unlimited now
And again ... the "unlimited" is throttled after a certain point. It's not truly unlimited. Please don't buy into their marketing nonsense.
 
I really doubt it. Line of site communications suck and is hardly worth the engineering effort. I dont know of any tech that can over come this issue.

Remember carriers had to switch to lower ftequency bands in cities to avoid problems with current technology. Going to the millimeter bands would just make things worse.

So we should see this in the 2022 iPhone?
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No-one but the hypochondriac wombles who maintain their delusions..
Actually high frequency RF can be dangerous. There are good reasons for the interlocks on your microwave. Of course the power levels are drastically different but also proximity is drastically different. We simply don't have info on wide spread use of millimeter wave technologies.
 
Welcome to the new world. Samsung will have 5g next year. Apple 3 years from now. And we're all stuck cause nobody here wants to use Android. And Tim knows it. Reminds me of when SJ talked about monopolies and the sales guys took over the company and eventually drove out the product guys.
Yes, apple is out for all of our money, RUN!.

But I'm sure you have inside info on when apple will include 5g.
 
Lots of misinformation in this thread.

For one thing, no, the next Samsung phone, or any phone for that matter, does not have 5G.

5G's primary purpose is NOT to increase speeds, its primary purpose is densification – bringing better coverage to dense areas, areas where 4G coverage is overloaded.

Because of how short the 5g waves travel, and the fact that they don't pass through objects, it takes anywhere from 15-25 5G cells to cover the same area as a single 4G cell. Because of this, significant investment is required in order to stand up a 5G network. We likely won't see 5G widely rolled out for 10 or more years. And some towns just don't make sense at all for 5G. Dry, open cities like Phoenix are good candidates and will likely see it first. Humid areas dense with trees, like Atlanta, are very poor candidates. 5G even can be disrupted by rain. It just won't be as ubiquitous as 4G, likely ever. But it will have practical uses.

The standardization process for 5G isn't even complete. Right now companies are in the exploratory process, learning how to best use the technology and what it's applications will be, but no network has rolled out 5G for consumer use. Any network advertising 5G is lying to you.

At the moment, the technology required to receive 5G signal does not fit inside a device smaller than a router, much less a phone.

Source: worked with and have been involved with testing of 5G technology for a major carrier.
 
5G carriers are lobbying and getting passed Bills to allow them to install transmitters on streets without warning or a hearing.
5G is bad news
 
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Higher data caps? Most carriers do unlimited now
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I honestly wonder if all these waves are going to surf me right down to Davey Jones's Locker...

But hey, some people may be immune so hooray for natural selection, right?
 
Welcome to the new world. Samsung will have 5g next year. Apple 3 years from now. And we're all stuck cause nobody here wants to use Android. And Tim knows it. Reminds me of when SJ talked about monopolies and the sales guys took over the company and eventually drove out the product guys.

We're still doing university and industry research to make 5G NR base station hardware viable for a public rollout. Handset companies are just starting to develop the hardware needed in phones. It'll be a few years before 5G is available in user hardware and from carriers.

Source: I do this for a living.
 
Faster Band with doesn't do any good when the cellular companies throttle speeds.
It would be nice if they did throttle speeds, instead of data caps. They often don't. They cap the amount of data we can use, which makes the faster speeds somewhat difficult to manage. You'll be over the cap faster than you can say "5G".
 
Nice and all, but show me a carrier that actually provides the "theoretical" bandwidth 4G (or even 3G for that matter) promises. You can have all the jiggabytes/sec you want on paper, if it only means 30 MB/sec in the real world then what's the point.
You need a better service provider:

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But I agree there's no need for greater network speeds than we already have.
 
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The galaxy s8 and s9 have 5g already

Hmm.. I thought you were joking. The s8 supports gigabit speeds. That seems like more than you'd need. I guess eventually we will be allowed to download terabytes per month.
 
Apple and Samsung should develop an royalty free technology to replace all things Qualcomm

A couple dozen of the top wireless companies on the planet have spent hundreds of billions developing and deploying the current worldwide cellular network. It's a solution that had to work together with hundreds of carriers and all ranges of regional income.

Qualcomm alone spends $6 billion a year on R&D.

It would be far cheaper and easier for Apple to simply continue paying royalties to those companies for the next hundred years. Besides, it's hard to imagine Apple creating and giving anything away to others. It's just not in their corporate DNA.

(Samsung already owns a lot of cellular patents, since they've been helping create the standards for years, unlike Apple who just uses them. For example, Samsung has as many LTE patents as Nokia, Motorola, and Interdigital each do.)
 
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No-one but the hypochondriac wombles who maintain their delusions..
Don't be so assuming. Apple themselves have a limit they're avoiding: https://www.apple.com/legal/rfexposure/iphone9,3/en/
The nearest Apple store had warning stickers on the tables in the Genius Bar warning that it was potentially harmful to keep an iPhone in a front or breast pocket, but the info online contradicts that. Meant to ask but forgot. Maybe it was a prank.
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You need a better service provider:

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But I agree there's no need for greater network speeds than we already have.
It's BS. My Speedtest.net results will show 50mbit/s, but everything clearly loads somewhere below 1mbit/s. But that's still enough for me.
 
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