But the current generation of 5G chips are quite large and do require extra power as they’re separate from the current 4G/3G modems. Extra power is definitely required. Even Qualcomm showed on their own roadmap that it’s not until later generations that the chips (and antennas) get smaller and more integrated.
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Carrier Please All iPhones 2019 should be 5G iPhones
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If I have to wait as long for the networks to get even half decent 5G coverage, as I did for 4G, or for that matter 3G. I can probably do without it for at least a couple more years.
chasing the specs but not seeing the real world usage?
5G is not ready, won't be for a while.
And because of the lawsuit we already know it won't happen this year. It would be major surprise.
I for one actually don't want 5G in my phone to be honest. I really don't like the health hazard aspects of it.
Everyone is rushing it and yet it wasn't even properly tested.
Anyway, 5G this year is 99% not gonna happen.
Then no point of buying the new iPhone when it is old tech already.
I will be staying with my iPhone X.
Some people purchase items solely based on a branding or marketing scheme. And because the iPhone 11 does not have 5G it is inferior to something that does have 5G. That is the mindset of a lot of people.
Honestly I might see 5G in 5 years if I’m lucky..
I would happily buy any new top of the line device and not worry one bit whether or not it has 5G.
I’m ok with 60-100MBPS LTE.
Honestly I might see 5G in 5 years if I’m lucky..
I would happily buy any new top of the line device and not worry one bit whether or not it has 5G.
I’m ok with 60-100MBPS LTE.
You're right, whether he's correct or not makes no difference because he's pushed everyone away and positioned himself as some untouchable expert.
It really depends on how an individual perceive the status of someone when discussing a topic. For me, what he says is right and his attitude is ok. For you, you are not comfortable because of the reason you stated. At the end of the day, nothing will happen and he may still be liked by a dozen people, maybe just not you.You're right, whether he's correct or not makes no difference because he's pushed everyone away and positioned himself as some untouchable expert.
I know we won't for sure. 4G LTE at least started in Philly and still took years to come to us. 5G doesn't even start in Philly or much anywhere else close to us.
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Exactly. Theoretical LTE would be more than sufficient, but not when you are getting sub 10mbps most of the time.
Can someone please educate me and tell me why people are obsessing over getting 5G on their iPhones? Is it just because of the speed? Is there better coverage with 5G? I have LTE and I honestly have zero complaints. Its very fast and reliable. At least for me anyways. I feel like I'm missing something here.
Because they are silly and chasing numbers. I can stream 4K TV at home on my Apple TV 4K and 65" TV with 60Mb/s Xfinity service. Why these people think they need faster than 100Mb/s LTE on their phones is beyond me. If they are getting slow LTE speeds now because of overcrowding or poorly located towers etc, it isn't going to get much better with 5G. It might get faster at first when only a few people have phones working on it, but it will quickly get overcrowded just the same as others upgrade their phones.
I personally believe they Cellular providers should be beefing up their LTE service, adding new towers and bandwidth, covering more area with faster LTE speeds etc. Rather than chasing new specs so they can brag about being the first or fastest in limited locations.
I personally believe they Cellular providers should be beefing up their LTE service, adding new towers and bandwidth, covering more area with faster LTE speeds etc. Rather than chasing new specs so they can brag about being the first or fastest in limited locations.
Exactly my thoughts. Also, it seems like the very few carriers that DO offer 5G, the 5G service gets blocked and the speed lowers drastically, unless your in a direct line of sight.
The area where 5G benefits the most is IoT and the entire smart home bs that I can’t care even less. For IoT, the 5G May enable trillions of devices being connected to the network and communicate with each other, whereas 4G can’t. It can also achieve lower latency, which is critical for auto driving cars. Speed bump is only a bonus that won’t last forever, and after 5G being overcrowded, it wouldn’t be better off using now-Less-crowded 4G to achieve high speed.
The hard truth however, is faster download speed is pretty much the only thing regular customers can feel and ISPs can brag about with ad bombardment. Yet, 5G for smartphone has a way less impact than 4G for smartphone for most average users, at least for the next few years.
5g is meaningless. i am the most feature hungry guy you can imagine and 5g is over hyped.
Why? 5G is fools gold. Doesn’t actually do anything. A web page won’t load any faster and you can already stream 4K. It’s a shorter bandwidth that sucks.
Thank You mate.
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Lol. Even 4G is still patchy in South Delhi and CP, the most posh areas in the capital of India. And it’s so patchy that you got to carry at least two sim devices, who knows what will work. Lol.
We just got fake unlimited plans back with LTE, now the carriers are going to charge extra for something that doesn’t even work in most places. I couldn’t care less either way, including it or not including it. 5G will have more of an impact on IoT type devices than cellphones.