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iPhone 12 May See 5G Connectivity Issues in the UK
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Even in the ‘best’ connected city London 5G is rubbish. As soon as you lose line of sight of the tower you are better of with 4G.
Anything internet in the UK is ancient.
i think most people doesnt even care about 5G and would prefer a 100bucks cheaper iphone12 without it...
That's my thinking as well. 5g is available in Chicago (I think). I live in the suburbs, so you would think we'd be quick to gain it as well, but there doesn't seem to be much of a rush. In all honesty, 5g just doesn't strike me as an "oh my God, I NEED this!" kind of thing.
It sounds like 'Low band' (700 Mhz) 5G may not be significantly faster than 4G but it is important for wide area coverage. I'd be surprised if 700 MHz not covered by iPhones as it's used across Europe. All UK 5G is currenly 'Mid band' - significantly faster than 4G but limited coverage. The networks vary depending on where you live. I'm looking forward to trying 5G in my City (one of the lucky ones outside London) but anticipate falling back onto 4G when coverage fails. Not worried about the 700 Mhz issue and certainly not a deal breaker.
Considering there are still parts of the country where you can barely get a decent 3G signal, and the 4G signal is more than fast enough, I can't say I'm in a rush to add 5G masts here.
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Are you quite sure of that?Well 99.99% of all iPhones are sold in the US, so...
USA 120
China 228
Rest of World 380
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Ive said this before, I would pay $100+ on top of the retail price for a 2020 iPhone with zero 5G support, dont care, dont want, please dont put an energy hungry modem I wont use... please... I would love for my country not to implement 5G in any shape or form, dont do it...
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Once established, the other big advantage of 5G is a being able to get fast speeds in busy areas, e.g. in a full football stadium (when we’re allowed in them again) which everyone knows with 4G (no matter how fast it can be) is dire presently.
Speed is not the biggest advantage of 5G, it's the latency.
5G is capable of 1ms latency, whereas 4G has about 50 times(!) that.
Granted, 5G of 2020 is only about twice as fast as 4G (20-25ms) but even that is a huge improvement.
I had to run off 4G for a week since our fibre was cut and the latency was very noticeable.
5G is capable of 1ms latency, whereas 4G has about 50 times(!) that.
Granted, 5G of 2020 is only about twice as fast as 4G (20-25ms) but even that is a huge improvement.
I had to run off 4G for a week since our fibre was cut and the latency was very noticeable.
Could you clarify? Are you saying that you want 5G in order not to be on 4G with everyone else? Or because 5G is better able to mange a full football stadium full of users?
I clearly was joking since it would require every person living in the US buying a new iPhone every year to account for the number of annual sales.
Hence the sarcasm emoticon (
) to show it was a sarcastic comment in response to a ridiculous statement that Apple only cared about the US market when it came to iPhones.Of course you were. As was I - though in a slightly different way.I clearly was joking since it would require every person living here buying a new iPhone every year.
I see your 200 Mbps+ on EE 4G and raise you 340 Mbps+ on Vodafone 5G in my home. Lower pings, too
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Relax. The new modem surely isn't going to be any more energy hungry when it's not in 5G mode. For a long time iPhones had an option to disable 4G if you didn't want it. I'm sure they will have the same option for 5G.
I will be absolutely shocked if this report ends up being true. It's been making the rounds, but if this phone doesn't have n28 - which is supported by many other phones and already deployed in other European countries - it would be astounding. I expect n1/n7/n28/n78 as a minimum (not the only bands it supports, by any means, but just the absolute minimum the European version will, I believe, certainly have).
Not quite sure why 5G is so important to include this year. Most of us here in the US won’t even have 5G coverage in our areas for at least another 2 years. If I do decide to upgrade this year, hopefully they will have a toggle for the 5G radios like we do for LTE. That would be off at all times in my area and would hopefully give a little more battery life.