So AT&T has started rolling out the 5G E network indicator on select Android phones with LTE-A support. Since the newest iPhones support LTE-A, when will the iPhone get the new indicator?
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Carrier When is AT&T’s “5G E” indicator coming to iPhone?
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Hopefuly only after its real.
AT&Ts have been fake
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2019/01/08/verizon-t-mobile-burn-att-fake-5g/
AT&Ts have been fake
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2019/01/08/verizon-t-mobile-burn-att-fake-5g/
I’d still like to know if I’m in an area with LTE-A. It may be “fake 5G” but it’s better than standard LTE.
Well it won’t come to iPhone until it’s real and hardware supports it. I don’t think the current iPhones will ever say LTE-A. But who knows
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There’s some precedent for it. Back when we were transitioning from 3G to LTE, AT&T pushed an update that made iPhones say “4G” when they were on an HSPA+ network, which was really just advanced 3G technology.
Which caused confusion for some given that 4G was actually LTE for most of the world and not what it was being used for when it came to AT&T on iPhone. Standards are standards and that's what should be used, and not some marketing speak.
Don’t support phone carriers that use fake networks to deceive sheeple into thinking they have something new when it’s the same exact specs that every other carrier has. Thank God Apple stands up to AT&T.
I get better reception with my Verizon then I did at AT&T even with a non-CDMA iPhone.
I travel in the Appalachian areas of Kentucky and Virginia quite a bit. Verizon is non-existent.
Either way, I don't doubt we'll be seeing the 5Ge on iPhones.
Back in 2011 AT&T still had a lot of power over the iPhone. I don't think they'd be able to pull this off nowadays
5G is 2020 though given Apple's iPhone situation they may want to move that tech up to get one out next year.
I'm surprised they are going ahead with this. They are getting crushed about this on social media by T-mobile's CEO and Verizon put out full page newspaper ads lambasting them for it. With all the bad press and being called out on this I figured they would scrap it.
Carriers are stubborn.
I remember when Verizon put the same UI on every phone they had back in the day and for years people blasted them for it. They never changed it until they had no choice.
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Why aren’t we surprised? AT&T’s focus has always been on over charging and misleading customers into getting a service that should cost far less.
It’s the same thing they are about to do with the government tax breaks they received last year. Despite billions in tax breaks and regulatory favors AT&T promised would dramatically boost both investment and job creation, AT&T is preparing for yet another significant round of layoffs according to internal documents obtained by Motherboard.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...-billions-in-tax-breaks-and-regulatory-favors
It’s the same thing they are about to do with the government tax breaks they received last year. Despite billions in tax breaks and regulatory favors AT&T promised would dramatically boost both investment and job creation, AT&T is preparing for yet another significant round of layoffs according to internal documents obtained by Motherboard.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...-billions-in-tax-breaks-and-regulatory-favors
So, hypothetically, if this does get pushed out, what iPhones would even get this? Would it be LTE-Advanced models (I think the 6S and later, except the SE)?
For what it's worth, I'm not a fan of the faux-4G indicator for HSPA+, so I'm hoping this doesn't happen (I wouldn't mind the iPhone have more degrees of feedback of the type of cellular data connection, but most people don't seem to care).
For what it's worth, I'm not a fan of the faux-4G indicator for HSPA+, so I'm hoping this doesn't happen (I wouldn't mind the iPhone have more degrees of feedback of the type of cellular data connection, but most people don't seem to care).
I was thinking it would only be the XS line. Wasn’t that the reason for adding antenna lines and messing up the symmetry on the bottom?
