Now, when you are looking for a new phone, there are 5G everywhere and you can hardly avoid it!
However, if you find yourself owning one of these new 5G devices with peculiar features, you will soon face a competing reality: in the real world, when it comes to actual usage and availability, 5G is practically nowhere. Findable.
When we have been considering Google’s 2020 Pixel lineup (as our Apple fans start to think about making similar "5G or not 5G?" decisions on iDevice), I have heard a lot of questions about the following : Buying a 5G-equipped smartphone now, and whether this might be a wise long-term strategy, even if the value of 5G at this particular moment is doubtful.
The unwavering, unhyped fact is that no one is really sure about what will be held in the next few years and how 5G will (or won’t) develop, and anyone who says they do it is bragging to you that it’s strangely hot Head hole. However, what we can say is that now assuming that 5G will be a meaningful advantage during the lifetime of your next mobile device, it will bring a huge leap, and our existing data simply does not support this step. Assuming that within two, three or five years from now, the specific 5G type in your next mobile phone will become the most important type, that will be uncertain.
Let's look at it from a logical point of view, right? No matter which phone you plan to use, there are some key points to keep in mind to balance all the heavy-duty 5G-friendly marketing that will appear in front of you in the next few years.
Really fast 5G is almost non-existent even in the United States, and it seems unlikely that it will become widespread anytime soon.
If you don't let yourself feel a headache, you can't talk about 5G. This is because "5G" does not mean anything by itself. This is a marketing term, and its existence is mainly to persuade us to buy a new mobile phone whose price may exceed the price we should have paid, and then to switch to more expensive plan value return at the lowest actual cost.
By its very nature, this kind of 5G coverage is very limited, and it is likely to remain in this state for the foreseeable future. why?
Most other operators in the United States focus on another type of "5G" technology, which is obviously slower but more practical in practical scope.
Many analyses have come to the same conclusion: The type of 5G you are most likely to encounter in your actual daily life, at best, may be at least much faster than the 4G you are used to in the past. Sometimes it is a lot slower.
We admit that we bought into the 5G hype. Operators, phone manufacturers and chip manufacturers have been selling 5G in a faster and more powerful way than 4G, and with lower latency. Therefore, I am shocked that, especially on the same network, our AT&T 5G results are slower than 4G results.
In addition to speed itself is a reliability factor. When a 5G mobile phone does not receive a good 5G signal, you will find-this must happen now, it will drop to 4G. And this, obviously, causes the download speed to be as low as half what a standard 4G connection will give you.
My experience is sometimes much worse than our existing 4G network. On T-Mobile, the download speed of files on my phone via 5G is actually slower than the download speed on my phone via 4G. The latency can also be completely ridiculous, and sometimes pings exceed 200 milliseconds-400% worse than what I usually encounter on 4G, which is conservative. On AT&T, assuming that 5G data can work normally, it is usually not faster than 4G. My Note20 Ultra often loses data connection when using AT&T’s 5G without obvious reason, and everything in the status bar is reported as A-OK... [and] Even if 5G works normally on AT&T, I will often The connection is actually responding when it encounters a strange delay, causing apps like Twitter to spin for five seconds or more when trying to refresh the data.
I downloaded the first two seasons of "Breaking Bad" (approximately 4GB) on Netflix and Apple TV in less than 3.5 minutes, and downloaded the 2GB game from the App Store in 45 seconds. To be sure, it is faster than my home broadband network. However, it took 4 minutes to play one episode on Amazon Prime Video. …In addition, during these downloads, the iPhone 12 became unusually warm. To the point where I had to put it down. Then there is the power consumption of the battery.
There are indications that this is a long-term problem-it will not be resolved in a few months. In my recent analysis of Pixel phones, I said that I would not even consider the presence or absence of 5G as a relevant consideration. Factor, because at present, with very few and very limited exceptions, this is not the case. This is why I do not hesitate to recommend the non-5G Pixel 4a to most people.
So, is this a short-sighted suggestion? Although 5G mobile phones have dubious value today, is the use of 5G mobile phones now an investment in the future?
As I said before, I am not a prophet, but I really don't think so. I dare say that my suggestion is practical. Even if we remove all concerns about 5G's practical and daily life benefits, the truly fast type of 5G requires you to stand within the sight of the tower to make it meaningful. Moreover, there is absolutely no indication that these towers will suddenly appear on every lamppost across the United States in the next few years.
The bottom line is: Now, 5G is not just marketing, it's marketing. Perhaps it will eventually change, or it will eventually become an inevitable new standard, regardless of the surrounding environment. However, buying 5G mobile phones today as an investment in the future requires a distorted view of the current reality surrounding the technology and an optimistic view of its possible development prospects.
So fasten your seat belts, everything is a marathon, not a sprint. Although the mobile industry desperately wants us to believe, we have hardly left the starting line.
Source: Guo Shenghua's blog, please indicate the source for reprinting