British Carrier Says 5G iPhone Just 'Days Away' in Internal Video Featuring Apple's Eddy Cue

[Lets Go]

I also am looking forward to better coverage and not necessarily more speed. But I may wait for the "S" update for the enviable "better 5G coverage with less battery drain".

 

[DotCom2]

What do they mean by "days away"? To me it's 1 week tops. So they better clarify that.

Yeah, to me "days away" means anytime within 7 days. Otherwise you're talking weeks.

 

[Rafterman]

Yes. Thirty days away.

 

[33man]

iPhone 12 will be iPhone 11 and you have to pay extra 5G case to make it iPhone 12.

no charger included

 

[Michael Scrip]

I'm a Verizon customer... do they have anything other than the mmWave 5G technology? Like mid-band?

My next iPhone will have 5G... but I never hang out on sidewalks in certain areas of major cities...

 

[JM]

"Days". "Weeks". "Months".
These terms don't have meanings anymore...

 

[tfresquezdxs]

I don't get all the comments about why do we need 5G i see not point, who needs the faster speeds. Literally everyone in the tech field knows how this goes and has gone. We don't know why we need it yet. Same thing with every generation of cellular networking. Why do we need 2G, 3G, 4G etc. Every time one comes out some say why we need it and then forward a few years and we do need it and couldn't imagine not having it.

 

[Bandaman]

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.

“I don’t understand how other people could want things that I don’t!”

 

[4jasontv]

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.

Agreed. For me having WiFi 6 would be more important than 5G. Of course, I’m always home now so it might make more sense to just get a land line.

 

[4jasontv]

I don't get all the comments about why do we need 5G i see not point, who needs the faster speeds. Literally everyone in the tech field knows how this goes and has gone. We don't know why we need it yet. Same thing with every generation of cellular networking. Why do we need 2G, 3G, 4G etc. Every time one comes out some say why we need it and then forward a few years and we do need it and couldn't imagine not having it.

The places where 5G is launching are the same places where people are discouraged from going out.

 

[UK-MacAddict]

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.

This is something that has always annoyed me too. They always push ahead when existing networks are still rubbish.

If 5G is as fast as they say it is they need to spend the next 10-15 years focussing solely on it until 100% coverage is achieved in every inch of the country running at full speed.Then and only then move onto ‘6G’.

 

[waquzy]

‘Days away’ is a meaningless phrase here. We know they’re coming soon.

yeah, next month

 

[Romeo_Nightfall]

It’s called progress/innovation etc plus the demand for the 5G iPhone should be the biggest ever for Apple.

let’s hope,for,ourmworld,it’s,not, 5g is Not needed currently , no real innovation here yet.

 

[Geckotek]

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.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates...supposedly.

 

[DocMultimedia]

Days. One. Five. Three hundred. Whatever.

Fall.

 

[dannyyankou]

I’m pretty confident the new iPhones will ship in November based on normal timing when it comes to production and stuff like that.

 

[ikunalz]

"Days away" could mean a whole lot of days ...

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

I’m pretty confident the new iPhones will ship in November based on normal timing when it comes to production and stuff like that.

Apple themselves said it it's a few weeks away not few months. Don't see that happening. November seems unlikely.

 

[5105973]

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.

Well I have the same problem with AT&T’s LTE where I live. Bless their hearts they’re actually much worse here now than they were five years ago! But people living in the cities with decent 5G seem excited about it as do people who go to sporting events and usually have trouble getting a decent throughput due to congestion.

 

[EugW]

When the iPhone 5 came out:

"I don't understand the 4G LTE craze, 3G HSPA is more than sufficient for most people. Not to mention, some networks aren't even fully done rolling out 3G HSPA, why begin another project? AT&T's 3G HSPA is so poor in my area."

Thread in early 2011 before the iPhone 5 came out.

iPhone 5 probably won't have LTE/4G, but..

So i think we all expect that the iPhone 5 will not be LTE ready. But i'm wondering is that, would Apple allow it to have LTE capability once the network comes out? I understand that LTE would be the main selling point of the iPhone 6, but there are phones recently released which say "can be...

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There are hardly any LTE networks operational around the world. I won't expect the iPhone 6 to be LTE ready either. iPhone 7 at best.

2013. Most countries haven't even started building their LTE network.

As far as I can tell, we're not doing so great with the HSPA+ buildout, either!

 

[trip1ex]

This falls under the "no sht sherlock" category.

 

[agsystems]

Not yet.

Apple Leadership - Eddy Cue

Eddy Cue is Apple’s senior vice president of Services and a member of Apple’s executive leadership team. Learn more about Eddy.

www.apple.com

don't know about this 'announcement' but Eddie is looking old and frail - I hope is the sh**it zoom transmission that is giving me that vibe

 

[5105973]

Apple themselves said it it's a few weeks away not few months. Don't see that happening. November seems unlikely.

Remember some people thought it was a clue that Apple used “add an event for September 30” in its iPad Air demo? Some people thought that might refer to when the iPhone announcements will be made. So yeah I think it probably is just a few days away.

And I agree they’d aim for early October at the latest for the announcements. Like most everyone else, I don’t know when they can actually open for preorders on the various models. But I don’t think it would be as late as November for all of them. I’m inclined to believe the rumors pointing to some sort of staggered release with October for at least one or two of the models.

I personally don’t care when they are actually put up for preorders but like you and most people around here I look forward to the announcements. I always look forward for iPhone announcements. It’s as fun for me now as it ever was. I’m planning on keeping my 11 Pro, but will give the mini iphone a look.

 

[Hyperchaotic]

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.

You have congestion but don't care about 5G, when the real problem 5G fixes is... the growing problem of congestion.

 

[Gator5000e]

Heck, I'm not overly concerned with 5G but I desparately wnat a new phone so I can get rid of the Intel modem in my X. It's horrible. Hoping the Qualcomm in the new phones will be tons better. My phone sometimes drops to straight 4G in my area (not LTE) and I can't even get on the web, get mail or make a call when that happens. Same happens with1 bar of LTE. So bring on the Q!!