Will people using theapple iPhones they bought in the past few years, see any great effect when the 5G is fully operating.
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iPhone 11 How will the 5G efect our present Apple iPhones meaning the 11 forward.
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Well when others buy 5G and people still using LTE phones will see LTE preform better as 5G will take the strain off LTE. Not everyone upgrades every year
5G in full effect would take 3-5 years given how many towers it needs to build to provide good coverage. I’m not concerned by 4G being unusable anytime soon.
Are you asking how your phone that doesn’t support feature X will perform when that feature is supported by other phones?
Theoretically, wouldn’t every phone on 5G be one fewer on 4G? If, theoretically, carriers didn’t start decommissioning 4G right away, wouldn’t that help 4G users?
I get 180 down and 15 up on 4G out in the country. I’m lucky to get 25 down in a lot of the city. The difference may not all be congestion, but it’s hard to imagine some of it isn’t.
Wouldn‘t 5G phones, at least in theory, allow better performance for remaining 4G phones?
I think it could in the case of congestion, but people need to remember that an 5G iPhone will still be using 4G.
Every 5G phone sold doesn't mean one less phone on 4G.
Yes, of course, a 4G phone isn‘t going to use 5G.
It‘s not going to be 1:1 but if 5G is available in the area, it’s hard to imagine there wouldn‘t be fewer phones on 4G, given the saturation of cell phones.
Toll roads reduce congestion even for drivers who don’t use them. I’d be surprised if something similar didn’t happen with 4G/5G, depending on how quickly carriers decommission ”excess” 4G capacity.
Current owners of 3G iPhones are most at risk as some of those towers and frequencies will gradually be repurposed at the same time. Remember 2G is gone for good now, none of those phones make phone calls anymore and certainly not the original iPhone, even though I still have one and I know of a place that will replace the battery on Original iPhones. But basically it's just a cheap low capacity iPod now that can play a few simple games.
And yes a lot of rural areas still have 3G towers. I know I do here on Delmarva, especially in southern Delaware, lots of spots with no LTE 4G at all or even no service at all on the chicken farms. LOL
It will take a while and it isn't as clear cut as it was in previous mobile data shifts.
For instance, 5G users use 5G on the downstream and 4G on the upstream. T-Mobile claims to be the first carrier in the world to turn on a purely 5G network (and that was just this month!). But that doesn't say how many devices support it or how large it itself is.
As you can imagine. 4G will be here for a period longer than older standards.
For instance, 5G users use 5G on the downstream and 4G on the upstream. T-Mobile claims to be the first carrier in the world to turn on a purely 5G network (and that was just this month!). But that doesn't say how many devices support it or how large it itself is.
As you can imagine. 4G will be here for a period longer than older standards.
By the time 5G is commonplace worldwide, we will already be using 5G iPhones.
5G is already in my area and has been for awhile. So 5G phones will have to be one of the considerations in my future purchases.
I can’t see how it will affect older iPhones as they will still have fast 4G. 5G is perhaps a couple of years away from being widely used and in fact many parts of Western Europe still have poor 4G coverage. It’s not going to make a great deal of difference having an older iPhone at all.
For me the impact will come through changes in apps although I'm not seeing many apps needing 5G over 4G.
For instance, take the storage changes to the PS5 and Xbox X that's coming this year. The high speed and low latency access the hardware will have to storage will change the fabric in how games will be created moving forward. The need of cut scenes in order to give the console time to load things from slow HDD storage will simply disappear. What is possible during gameplay will change significantly.
Apply that to an iPhone/iPad with 5G (at its theoretical and implementational best) and you can start to wonder if you require certain things to be on your device in the first place. It will definitely be transformative for things like iCloud storage… and I can definitely see Apple pushing forward with such changes to "encourage" people to buy new devices. So apps may well change enough such that a "4G or earlier device" is "no longer supported".
Whether such things actually makes a transformative difference to one's life remains very much to be seen.
5G is already in operation for those with 5G phones in my area. As a 4G user I do not expect to see any change. Those who use a 5G phone will no doubt see faster speeds when surfing. Also new 5G apps will be available for whatever service they provide. A whole new set of opportunities will be introduced for both developers and subscribers.
For myself with a 11 pro I intend to wait for the 2nd or most likely 3rd iteration of Apple's 5G model (If I stay with Apple) I wonder what Apple will call the 13?
For myself with a 11 pro I intend to wait for the 2nd or most likely 3rd iteration of Apple's 5G model (If I stay with Apple) I wonder what Apple will call the 13?