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Sure, the tech and service plans are already and available. But not necessarily available everywhere or providing the service performance it's promising at all and pretty far away from it's supposed "peak time".

Interestingly, if my memory serves me right, 4G still haven't reached its full capability up to this day and there still is a distance (quite a distance) from its theoretical top speed.

All the carriers sit on extra performance. For three reasons:
1. It's more profitable.
2. In case a competitor launches something that gets them farther ahead.
3. People are less discontent when they get consistent speeds than if they get occasional higher than promised speeds because they can't tell the difference between what they are supposed to get and what they got - they just know "it feels slow."
 
I don’t understand the 5G craze, LTE is more that sufficient for most people. Not to mention, some networks aren’t even fully done rolling out LTE, why begin another project? AT&T’s LTE is so poor in my area.
Yep. I have plenty of LTE coverage most of the time (Verizon), but it still doesn't do me any good when congestion slows it to a crawl. Faster theoretical speeds means nothing to me. Many times I can turn off LTE and get faster speeds on the 3G network, which is totally bonkers. I literally don't care one bit about 5G right now, and probably won't for a couple years.
 
"Eddy Cue made a brief appearance during the video, praising EE for becoming the first carrier to offer smartphone plans bundled with multiple Apple services"

Ah yes, that sounds totally relevant to 5G, doesn't it
 
Yep. I have plenty of LTE coverage most of the time (Verizon), but it still doesn't do me any good when congestion slows it to a crawl. Faster theoretical speeds means nothing to me. Many times I can turn off LTE and get faster speeds on the 3G network, which is totally bonkers. I literally don't care one bit about 5G right now, and probably won't for a couple years.
5G is supposed to handle congestion better than LTE. However, that is dependent upon the implementation of course.
 
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I don’t understand the 5G craze, LTE is more that sufficient for most people. Not to mention, some networks aren’t even fully done rolling out LTE, why begin another project? AT&T’s LTE is so poor in my area.

It's for China / Asia. Many customers demand future proof 5G phones. For you in the US or for me in Germany 5G makes little sense, but China? They are really ahead of us.
 
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I’lol be surprised if (a return to) the flat-edged design appeals to me. But that’s ok because I purchase discontinued models anyway, so I can still upgrade to an 11 Pro Max.

Apple’s new prices are just insane. Never thought it could cost more than 1k dollarydoos for an iPhone let alone above $2k. The highest is a whopping 2.5k for a 512 GB Pro Max!
“dollarydoos”. I’m guessing that’s Australian? (Your icon appears to show Sydney.) Prices there are pretty steep, indeed!
 
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I think it’s a safe bet that they will announce the iPhone during the first two weeks of October.

Apple will not want to compete with the US election cycle which ramps up heavily the second half of October through the first part of November. They need to get good press out before the election news wave takes over. Late November is too late to announce all their new products and still have them ready before the holiday season.

October 5-6 or 12-13 are the most likely days.
 
I don’t understand the 5G craze, LTE is more that sufficient for most people. Not to mention, some networks aren’t even fully done rolling out LTE, why begin another project? AT&T’s LTE is so poor in my area.

So 5G will fix your poor LTE?
 
It’s called progress/innovation etc plus the demand for the 5G iPhone should be the biggest ever for Apple.

I just don’t see a huge demand this year. Sure the new iPhone models are always popular, but “biggest ever for Apple?”

This board isn’t representative of the overall population, the layman seems pretty content with 4G speeds and there isn’t much of a selling point for them to upgrade anymore as most new phone releases have been iterative.

Add that to a lot of economic uncertainty, and this launch may be a bit of a whimper.
 
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I agree about the 5G craze... 4G LTE works perfectly for me 98% of the time now since lower frequencies have been opened up in my country meaning better coverage.
It's just another "new" technology, although it is definitely taking longer and will need a lot of work to get it where they dreamed it to be

I'm on WiFi so much that back when I still had my iPhone 6 I'd turn off LTE to preserve my battery. Never missed it.
 
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I don’t understand the 5G craze, LTE is more that sufficient for most people. Not to mention, some networks aren’t even fully done rolling out LTE, why begin another project? AT&T’s LTE is so poor in my area.
5G can go longer distances(the mid frequencies), which means your poor AT&T LTE, if upgraded to 5G would have much better signal, without them having to add new towers and such. I'm excited for 5G for the better coverage, not the speed.
 
I think it’s a safe bet that they will announce the iPhone during the first two weeks of October.

Apple will not want to compete with the US election cycle which ramps up heavily the second half of October through the first part of November. They need to get good press out before the election news wave takes over. Late November is too late to announce all their new products and still have them ready before the holiday season.

October 5-6 or 12-13 are the most likely days.
I was thinking before this month is over.
 
I don’t understand the 5G craze, LTE is more that sufficient for most people. Not to mention, some networks aren’t even fully done rolling out LTE, why begin another project? AT&T’s LTE is so poor in my area.

5G is just another iteration that works really well in densely populated areas. Huawei did a weeklong demo of the technology at my uni last year and it is amazing what it can do, especially at short distances. It was actually faster than wireless 802.11ac when transferring large datasets. However, that was in a self contained unit where the modem and devices were in close proximity, but I still think 5G works better over long distances too. I'm curious to see how it holds up in practice, but I think the real benefit will be seen in big cities like New York, London, and Mumbai versus smaller towns and regions.
 
I’ve been so happy with my XS that 5G is about the only feature that MIGHT make me consider upgrading. I have said that before though, skipped the iPad 2 because I liked my OG iPad well enough and held out for an iPad with Retina display... that was a mistake....
 
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