The entire industry is convinced 5G is the real thing but you know better. Did not we see this with Apple fans before? Sure we did many times. According to them BT beacons were a real thing as opposed to NFC gimmick. Well, the attitude changed once Apple finally added NFC to iPhone. The same will happen with 5G. Everybody knows that the reason iPhones do not have 5G still is because Apple could not find 5G modem supplier (and Intel failed). Who are you trying to fool with your ignorant rants?
What does BT or NFC have to do with the fact that 5G will not bring major benefits to smartphone users?
A couple years ago I had 1 Gbps Internet service offered by my provider for certain markets (where I was lucky enough to live). My previous service was 100 Mbps. They advertised the following benefits: Your web pages will load quicker and "pop" onto your screen, you can stream video without dropouts and download large files/movies in seconds.
Except none of that was true. Web pages didn't really load any faster with my new 1 Gbps service. My previous service never had any issues with dropouts while streaming so the new service wasn't any better. That leaves me with downloading large files/movies. Surely that must have been better? Nope. Sometimes I could get a fast connection and download a large file quickly, but most of the time the speed difference was negligible despite my new service being 10 times faster.
The reasons for this are obvious. It doesn't matter how fast the connection at my end is if the server at the other end can't deliver content to me that quickly. What good is 1 Gbps service when downloading that new multi GB game patch if there are so many others also trying to get the same patch that the servers can't keep up? The ONLY time I could get near the 1 Gbps speed is if I was downloading multiple large files from different locations. Then my combined download speeds for all those file could get close to the theoretical 1 Gbps limit. However, that wasn't a valid "real world" use case I ever found myself in. Today I'm on a 150 Mbps service and with everyone in the house using their devices or watching TV/streaming everything still hums along just fine.
This is what 5G will bring to smartphones. A theoretical number that looks good on paper but won't have any real benefits to the user that they would ever notice.
That doesn't mean 5G is necessarily bad. It does provide a lot of specific benefits (like very low latency). However, these benefits are more applicable to industry, remote sensing/control, IoT, autonomous driving and other smart devices, not to smartphones. This is the problem with 5G proponents - they talk about 5G in overall generic terms without breaking down the benefits to a particular group.
Smartphone users won't notice any difference. Which is why owning a 4G phone for the next few years won't affect anyone. However, that won't stop the Android fans from pumping 5G like it's the Second Coming of Christ and pretending that any phone without out it is an obsolete dinosaur. After all, they desperately need SOMETHING to try and claim a victory over the iPhone.
BTW, on a final note, I was riding the train (SkyTrain in Vancouver) and did a speed test on my iPhone. This is the result:
So my iPhone, with its supposedly garbage Intel modem, on a moving train was able to get 157 Mbps download speed with a ping of 17ms. I don’t know how I’ll ever survive using such a garbage device with snail-like speeds. /s
