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Higher monthly bill, phone weighs more and/or has worse battery life. I don’t see an upside to 5G.

I’d be way more excited about an affordable 4G unlimited plan that doesn’t “deprioritize” me all the time.
I mean the weight is a little stretch, don't you mean size?

Otherwise I am with you.
 
Smaller capacitors equals warmer phones.

Thinner phones = less battery space spells battery longevity woes.
 
I hope there is a setting switch to turn 5G off. I’m having flashbacks from iPhone 5, the most flawed iPhone I’ve ever used!
 
Maybe with that freed-up space, they can bring back the headphone jack. (I know Tim Cook lacks the common sense to do that.)
 
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I mean the weight is a little stretch, don't you mean size?

Otherwise I am with you.

Batteries are heavy, 5G will require more power, hence my little “weighs more and/or has worse battery life” point. If they find a way to maintain battery life without adding weight, that’s great.

Weight isn’t as important to me as as my monthly cell phone bill and my phone’s battery life. What’s a 5G cell service bill going to look like? $100 per month for “unlimited” with deprioritization and video throttling? With the iPhone 11, battery life is finally good enough, I just don’t wait to lose that.
 
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Sure hope these aren't the same multilayer surface mount capacitors that tend to crack / burn and in some cases go boom. See Louis Rossman videos
 
Smaller capacitors equals warmer phones.

Thinner phones = less battery space spells battery longevity woes.
Why do you think smaller caps will make phones warmer?

And the article mentions larger, higher capacity batteries, not smaller ones. Nothing about thinner phones either.
 
Even if we won't buy 5G phones, how would we prevent ourselves from being bathed in the waves, sitting in the comfort of our homes?
You could build a faraday cage, costs a fortune if you want to nicely integrate it into your house while still being effective. then you have radio silence...
 
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The new Qualcomm top of the line CPU (865) will not have 5G built in, it'll still require a separate 5G chip, which doesn't bode well for power usage. It'll be interesting to see how Apple navigates the 2020 iPhone year with 5G.
 
Yea... amazing what some folks are convinced of - no matter what the FACTS are.

Friend of mine tried to convince me is Iphone 6 had wireless charging.

Oh well..

but, but.. it did. :)

yea, apple kind of did it to themselves with their ridiculous naming convention.
 
The new Qualcomm top of the line CPU (865) will not have 5G built in, it'll still require a separate 5G cheap, which doesn't bode well for power usage. It'll be interesting to see how Apple navigates the 2020 iPhone year with 5G.

Sort of glad I upgraded this year. I’m going to let next year be the learning curve year and will upgrade again in 2021 when all the stuff is ironed out and working properly. I’m on Sprint and 5G is a going to be a while.
 
Sure hope these aren't the same multilayer surface mount capacitors that tend to crack / burn and in some cases go boom. See Louis Rossman videos

That’s a totally different thing though, because Louis Rossman is using computer applications, not smart phones. I doubt this would be anything related to the nature of those videos you’re referring to.
 
I remember similar story with one of our supplier that changed material (it was resistor or capacitor) and claimed that it does not affect overall performance however after internal verficiation endurance was affected and they fail more quickly. There is no magic if you reduce physical dimensions or material there is always a lot of downsides that supplier better does not want to mention. This is a consumer product so generally component quality is low but I hope that anyway Apple validated it in low and high temperatures to do not repeat another antenna / keyboard gate.
 
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I have no desire to have 5G anytime soon. In fact, I'll be happy to see how it settles and if we have any health issues because 5G seems to be massive health risk from what I've gathered so far. So, I'll wait it out.

They say this about all technology. Never ends up being true. Remember when having phones in our pockets was going to give us all testicular cancer?
 
This is not news. Electronics have been getting smaller for 100 years.

Actually, this is news [And relatively interesting]. And your generalization that you made is fairly broad. I would probably shrink what you said down over the course of 10 years to see the differences in terms of how the iPhone has miniaturized internal components. I’d suggest you Google one of the first iPhones internals, and take a look at that compared to the internal structure of the iPhone 11 today, it’s drastically different in just a short timeframe.
 
No, because the capacitors would be "thinner" not "smaller".

I'm just amazed at how far they're taking the miniaturization of electrical components. I would have thought by now they'd have reached their limit.

Limits are in human minds, there are no limits.

They say this about all technology. Never ends up being true. Remember when having phones in our pockets was going to give us all testicular cancer?

Do women have them.;)
 
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