Why 5G Sucks ⚠️

[@Mrwhosetheboss]

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[@tcgys]

Nice Rickroll

[@kekw5919]

😨

[@tacticol]

hi

[@usada3658]

Eyy

[@eleni_draws]

Hi

[@bemimu]

Can we just appreciate the fact that Arun respawned and instantly continued talking after being hit by a car?

[@naanbred7718]

there’s levels to life

[@thealmightycrisprat]

he’s a cat guy. cats have nine lives. naturally so does he

[@robloxiansexclusive1781]

@@thealmightycrisprat 25 seconds ago

[@prajwalbharambe343]

Bruh I got so scared for a second 😱

[@thealmightycrisprat]

@@robloxiansexclusive1781 this comment has already aged like milk

[@sairamsuresh7511]

What doesn’t suck though is Arun’s ability to rickroll us every time

[@thetechboyorg]

I will never give up watching these videos.

[@0638]

ok

[@goofydavid100]

Thanks for keeping me informed before I get rickrolled

[@An-esoteric-space_in]

But his content getting started to suck like any other paid reviewers

[@rroy1985]

@@everything_huawei_pro4743 get a job seriously

[@TechBlock]

EE in the UK seem to have simply rebranded their 4G+ connection to “5G”. At least that’s what it feels like in my area. I used to actually get faster speeds back in 2020 over their 4G+ connection then I do now in 2022 using “5G”.

[@battyflaps5410]

ive noticed a drop in speeds on 4G speeds over the year tbh. They was fast and fine but now the upload is like.. gone way down... shame really

[@soupe2000]

this is shameful if true

[@YakobtoshiNakamoto]

Must be your area. I’m on EE and my 5G speeds are around 500/600 mbps

[@leearcher3252]

Totally agree. EE don't even reply to my complaints any more. I can get 0.1mb on 5G. Even chrome just times out. It's shocking.

[@davwheat]

This is something called ULI 5G. This is where the site is configured to be capable of aggregating its 4G connection with a 5G connection on the site or another nearby. Devices are designed to show 5G even when you're not actually connected to it because the network is expected to accurately tell your device this "ULI" value, and hence devices assume there is a 5G signal nearby.

[@opinionatedoliver3680]

By the time 5G is at its peak performance, also coverage wise, I’m pretty sure they’re already marketing 6G 😂

[@Bredddi]

7G baby

[@simmeringpot]

@@Bredddi GG

[@Spright91]

They can't do 6g the laws of physics won't allow it. 5g is the last viable frequency on the radio spectrum.

[@dutchmilk]

The irony of this statement is like claiming dd4 is useless because by the time it is at its peak performance, DDR5 is already on its way. Which is what is happening now.

[@dahoodbooger1]

69G

[@pjp13579]

A while back some people in rural England, though 5G towers were causing Covid so their busted them down. Turns out what they had destroyed were 3G and 4G tower and whole areas were left without connection, even for emergency services.

[@jimroscovius]

Idiots got so Chicken Little regarding the Covid "scare".

[@SamSard]

Stupid people.

[@_yuri]

idiotas

[@vishulangeh8348]

🤣😂

[@Hallyudol]

lolll

[@timr0by]

In my experience, I’ve locked my phone to only use LTE. When I’m on 5G, stuff rarely loads, even with full bars. When I switch back over to LTE, things start working again as normal. And this has been on numerous different phones and operating systems.

[@topoffthecoupe1871]

same here

[@stevenhu202]

Same for both iPhone and Android for me.

[@kennyb123]

Same! And it's not easy to find that setting on an at&t locked Android phone.

[@WesternSouthDakotaRailfan2006]

Same here

[@mLK635]

Most likely because the lte network is less contested than the 5G network

[@CED99]

Arun's take on things required for future networks is spot on - more coverage, better reliability, and 'good enough' speeds (like good 4g speed)

[@Tri-Technology]

For consumer that's probably true, but Arun is wrong about the rest. The goals of IEEE with 5G were never standardized to revolutionize the consumer market, but the industry.

[@mavster78]

@@Tri-Technology You might be right on that, but it means they really dropped the ball when the user experience went down. Imagine releasing a new Playstation that performed worse than the previous version (or at least more unreliable), and justifying it with it allows for more players or servers? Do the average user care?

[@Tri-Technology]

@@mavster78 Yeah but it depends on who should be the user. 5G supports everything the industry wanted and it's only in the consumer market now, because some consumers pushed that too hard without any use case for the features.

[@benfulford3943]

@@Tri-Technology what 'industry' has it revolotionised and how has it done that?

[@luxemier]

@@mavster78 im impressed by your analogy nice

[@Pookkyy]

5:30 My heartbeat and my jaw dropped with 68 others

[@AllanBorch]

Yesterday was one of those days, where I had a SERIOUSLY slow internet speed... I looked at my phone, and saw the usual '5G' ...and I kept thinking: "maybe I'm between cell towers..." ...NOW I know the problem!😅 Thank you Arun, for clearing that up!😎

[@lakshmanb5604]

The marketing of 5G went over board yes but that doesnt mean Sub6 GHz is as slow as 4G. Infact it is bare minimum 5 times faster, half the latency and has the capacity to be upto 20 times faster than 4G provided the mobile phones can handle the computation required. Millimeter wave was deisgned for industrial applications and mobile users probably wont get it much or they will get it in specific places like stadiums etc.

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

Jesus Christ is the propitiation for the whole world's sins. They that believeth and are baptized (with the Holy Spirit) shall be saved; but they that believeth not shall be damned. Those led by the Holy Spirit do not abide in wickedness. *God is ONE manifesting himself as THREE;* the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Bless him! *For these three are one.* As I am led by the Holy Spirit, nothing I state is a lie, but the truth of God. Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed or a liar. They do not know God, nor led by him. Anyone who *claims* to be a Christian and is against what I am doing, and where I am doing it; the Holy Spirit does not dwell within them, they lack understanding. They know not God, read his word, and their religion is in vain. Do not hear them, they will mislead you, the lost cannot guide the lost.

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

When you trust in God and cast your cares (worries, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts) upon him, they will be NO MORE! Know that there is power in the name Jesus Christ! His name casts out demons and heals! The world is wicked, evil, and of the devil. I too, was a wicked sinner of the world before I opened my heart to God. I am living proof of God's work and fruitfulness! He is an active God who hears the prayers of his! God's children are set apart (holy) and righteous. The devil is a liar that comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy; that includes your relationship with God! Open your heart to God, repent of your sins (he will forgive you), and let him direct your path. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands and purify your heart, lest you walk with the devil and follow him to hell.

[@christianmatthieu]

I live in Romania and here, on 5G i get in every major city, internet speed around 300Mbps - on mobile and even more. Indoor i get on 5G around 200Mbps all the time. 4G and 4G+ are stuck around 100Mbps. I do not mention that on Wifi i have 1000Mbps - 1200Mbps - the maximum speed that my router can reach. Another thing is that we can't use Pixel Phones here on 5G. Even the latest phones, 6A, 6, 7...don't work on 5G - and i think this is stupid.

[@ChrisA2]

@@lakshmanb5604 I guess “Why 5G sucks for 99% of the population” was too long of a title

[@AbdulRahman-sp2ey]

I love the fact that when Arun had to describe a year, he always mentions a popular phone released that year.

[@xrhstofer]

This is true love

[@Vasilios.03]

If I have to recall something that happened in the past , i remember the iphone i was using at the time and then be like oh yea that happened in 2017

[@GameTesterDev]

I mean... It's really easy to do so.

[@la_prima]

Over the years, Arun created a new style of youtube category. Congrutaltions!

[@Pro2Gaming]

i agree his videos are so unique

[@justnnn1537]

how do you manage to spell congratulations THAT wrong...

[@darkfir3.]

@@justnnn1537 💀

[@eva1das103]

@@justnnn1537 whoosh

[@what_to_use2062]

@@justnnn1537 its congratulation and salutations combined

[@roskoe95bg]

Hi Arun, I am a little bit confused. I used to be an integration field engineer for the cell towers in Bulgaria and while I have worked we had true 5G network, but the interesting part is that our network use the centimeters wave instead of the mmWaves. The frequency spectrum that is used is between the 3.1-4.6 Ghz which is related to the cm waves (super high 3Ghz - 30Ghz) instead of mm waves, and also the speed is from 800mbits up to 1.5 gigabits, that is the intriguing part of the whole scenario. Maybe there is a different standard for each country to be used.

[@meloney]

A bit late, but there are different types of 5G. Some use different wavelenghts for a slower speed while gaining extra range. In some areas its better for example if you cut down the speed 50 % but for that you have double or more range with just one 5g tower. Especially for rural areas.

[@jacobnunya808]

True mm wave is pointless for most things. You get faster speeds, sure, but the speeds you can get at a lower frequency are still more than your typical person will ever use.

[@zuzz2216]

​@@jacobnunya808I find it's not so much the bandwidth allowance that 5GHz provides but more the reliability as it doesn't suffer from interference. This is especially true for when people use data, on local Wi-fi connections to there modem. 5GHz all the way for me 😊

[@deepspacecow2644]

@@zuzz2216 Is there a 5ghz 5g system?

[@zuzz2216]

@@deepspacecow2644 Sorry was meaning when someone connects via 5GHz on a local wifi network instead of data*. If someone uses 2.4GHz over wifi these days, especially on a wifi network that's not manually managed or in a densely populated area. They're gonna run into interference issues caused by congestion. I feel it's a valid point seeing most people use their devices the most while at home.

[@davidsalterego4481]

Even in secondary school when we’re 14 or 15 they teach us about the short travel distance of higher frequencies waves so I don’t know how these tech companies grossly overlooked it.

[@deadlybear92]

They are not overlooked...but their target is wrong from the start ..their goal is to get much higher speed, but they don't care about the range of it...

[@davidsalterego4481]

@@deadlybear92 Oh I see, I agree that the target is wrong though

[@Lanon0987654321]

Mmwave anyways does not make most of the 5G connections is usually mostly sub 6ghz and those can reach multi gig speeds just need a good fiber infrastructure

[@shadowyzephyr]

They knew it would be like that, they just ignored the bad things about 5g in order to market it

[@defetya]

@@deadlybear92 why..... are.... you..... typing.... like...this?

[@santoshsoudi4192]

Finally someone truly understands that 5G is not yet matured. Thank you for making such a valuable video which I can share and spread awareness about the current state of 5G.

[@RevolutionRoad]

5G is GARBAGE!

[@Tuckingferrible]

Thank you, Arun! I’ve never heard anyone explain this before. I’ve made choices between handsets because of 5g vs 4g and I’ve even chosen network providers based on their better 5g coverage. Now I know why I’ve not seen any tangible difference. Top content as always. Thank you 🙏

[@dude-ji8hq]

Imagine the doctors Internet lags while on surgery

[@bbglas007]

Lol why would a Dr use 5g? I'd hope it'd be wired or just in person

[@choppalungon]

oh shit

[@rafaelmatera9131]

Robot detects internet instabilization and freeze, a lesser qualified doctor can assume control manualy

[@yusinwu]

Then gamers will not be the only group of people blaming on internet delay for their poor performance on what they are doing

[@EZNutz]

ethernet

[@jojo42069]

These little things in your videos just make them so much more enjoyable. The little red arrow which moved when "Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G" changed to "Galaxy S21 5G Series" ... Just a very nice touch. Kudos to the editor!

[@NotCrypt]

^ totally not a bot

[@paradigm2841]

Did you really congratulate the editor for moving a red sprite when he literally cgi'd a car crash? xD

[@jojo42069]

@@paradigm2841 xD Yes it's a bit off

[@fr0ge13]

4:05 for anyone

[@redeye1619]

This video is spot on! 4G is already more than enough for most people, as you said we just needed more coverage and stable consistent high speed and maybe lower latency for gaming! They should have worked on improving 4G to achieve that optimum state instead of building a whole new costly and heavy infrastructure + facing new challenges

[@user-cv1jl1so9s]

Congratulations you have been selected among my lucky winners Dm to claim your prize

[@ElChumies915]

Exactly! Do what they did with 3G. To me it seems like they perfected and maxed out 3G so we moved on to 4G and then LTE came out which is even better then 4G alone…5G feels like 4G LTE+ 😂

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

@@ElChumies915 Exactly! 4G and LTE are the same thing though xD

[@glenn07777]

More coverage? More stability and consistency? Are you a communist? Those things are expensive, anorgasmic, boring and do not contribute to the bottom line of the big tech.

[@ZakiyHanafi]

4g latency will never be fast and reliable enough for online gaming

[@lloydmwinga5628]

Thank goodness a tech influencer is finally mentioning this, we didn't need 5g, my samsung m30s is a 4g phone and it's more than fast enough for my usage but just because am on a less crowded network, but the more crowded providers have very low speeds, we need an improved 4g

[@spugelo359]

4G wasn't good enough for me, I tether it from phone to PC. The monthly cost of 5G is just what it used to be for 4G. Not only did 5G make 4G cheaper, but 5G is simply superior option for those who can actually make use of it.

[@Shinkajo]

Speak for yourself. Different people have different requirements

[@PelosiStockPortfolio]

1MB of memory is more than anyone would need in a computer. But I bet you have more than that..

[@pharezknights5467]

@@spugelo359 bro we live in a day where tethering is last option, you don't have fast internet home

[@optimx314]

@@pharezknights5467 mf dont know pc gamers

[@piotrb4240]

I was recently in Thailand, I had a temporary mobile internet contract with no data limit. I sat down in a shopping center the day I was leaving and started downloading Netflix movies & series en masse for my VERY long flight back home. It was true 5G, and wow! they were downloading faster than I could choose the next one!

[@ZenoDovahkiin]

Bro imagine your son dies and the surgeon blames lag.

[@Mongus-sus]

Sir… I was lagging

[@johnson941]

This makes me feel so glad that I didn't buy a 5G phone because it had 5G, but settled for a 4G that I liked better. I thought that it was a risqué move, since I remembered how much my parents struggled with their 3G phones, when 4G took over.

[@autoyouth3760]

Same brother, bought a 4g phone with better specs rather than a 5g phone with downgraded specs!

[@dashingclasher]

Yeah, 4G was a worth-it jump but 5G isn't quite as revolutionary yet.

[@user-or1ce7ez5w]

@@dashingclasher I don't know mate. I bought a 5g dongle for making wi-fi with a 5g sim I consistently get 400- 600 Mbps download. However upload speed about 20-30 Mbps. Don't know why so, but it's great for anything I stream. No lags

[@Adam-uz9sc]

All new phones from the past 2 years have 5g how u buy a phone without it

[@xDLiLi1337]

the 5g phones are compatible with 4g lmao

[@UaLys]

As one of 5g engineers, I need to clarify a few steps: 5g never was only mmWaves, it was marketed through mmWaves due to more obvious difference. In Europe mmWaves weren't given to mobile operators yet, thus 5g sign in UK means 3.5 GHz = sub 6 GHz (still different frequency to 4G). 5g is really not finalised yet, thus taking 5g contract you become more a beta tester than a luxurious user. It will receive updates each year, so stay tuned. Do not expect 5g to be a game changer outside of cities, it will require a lot of antennas to be available there (no financial sense). The demand on data rises every year, so the fact that during transition period users would not receive problems would be fantastic. Without 5g, 4g would be not able to hand a load in a few years.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Does 5G actually have really rubbish range ?

[@antuacharjee9145]

@@edwardfletcher7790 only mm waves have a rubbish range, sub 6 has the same range as 4g

[@slashz0r]

@@edwardfletcher7790 line of sight it's quite acceptable. good example is maybe you walking down the sidewalk. you're going to be moving slowly and (hopefully) have clear line to the tower. great in that situation, but as mentioned in the video as soon as it has to pass through something it takes a huge performance hit (if you can even hold a connection...)

[@slashz0r]

whats up with LTE-A?

[@garyedwin9774]

@@edwardfletcher7790 I'm not a scientist but I would assume so because as you contract something (making the waves smaller and more frequent), this would result in a decrease in range - assuming the same power usage. @52 seconds

[@Hridoyerkotha386]

God bless you . I have not continued to pursue my youtube career. But have learned so much from you. Thanks for your videos.

[@Arjun_Vasudevan]

A relief to see people across the world facing the same problem !!

[@fx-studio]

5G is a weapons system not a communication one.

[@matthewtoomer2181]

Its a good problem. The universe works by waves, how do microwaves worked? By vibrating the water within the food, if you vibrate water fast enough with a high frequency speaker it boils, we are made of water and 5g has given kids in the UK after they put masts in a school. There is or was a court case on this. 5g is terrible for your health, its killing bees and plants. Its the same fequency as micro waves so tell me would you climb into a microwave when its running?

[@Queazyjohn]

True 😭

[@RavenHart-sx8xs]

Divided by borders United by 5G

[@arsenal4444]

The absolute professionalism of nailing making a 'nod' toward ads and sponsors, without derailing the video for it, is on it's own enough for me to support the channel, so that everyone in every genre of videos can look to it as an example.

[@davidr5597]

Totally on point! I'm in Silicon valley in California, supposedly one of the most tech forward parts of the world and I actively disable 5G on my mobile because, like you say, performance sucks!! The hype and the promises have never eventuated.. The marketing and sales teams got a bad case of the tail wagging the dog with respect to the engineering!!

[@AI-GPT-NPC]

I rarely get a 5g signal, and I can accurately predict when my 4g signal is lost. I'd prefer range over speed.

[@BlakeTedKord]

@David R then what's next if not 5g from here? Better processor and chip tech? Is telecomm even gonna have a leap soon in terms of speed or was 5g it and we have to wait 50 years until quantum gigahertz is a thing or something? QG?

[@RecklessTurtle]

Few points here. Every G standard contains 2 planes, user plane and traffic plane. The first one is related to the data you receive and the second one is how the mobile phone is being controlled in a network. 5G is in essence backward compatible and your phone may show the 5G logo if the phone is controlled by the 5G traffic plane but may utilize the very old 2G/3G frequencies. That is totally OK. And I think this was the thinking strategy of the operators and NW manufacturers. The 4G revenues were stagnating and they needed a new umpf but didn't know how to achieve it. mmWave is very long ahead, no one wants to install a transceiver every few 100 meters, no operator can recover from that. So, the operators instead tricked you to believe that 5G is usable for you, which it isn't at the moment and won't be in 2-3 years. However, I would still go and buy a 5G phone because those chipsets are produced with more advanced technology (10-12nm vs. 5nm), meaning they have more performance and they last longer on battery power.

[@Sacto1654]

So who's your carrier? I've never had problem with high speeds over 5G on my iPhone 12 on the T-Mobile US network.

[@ItsKoryn]

I’ve got a phone that supports 5G and an unlimited contract which doesn’t change price if it’s 4G or 5G. For now, got no real reason to change that.

[@nickoto0]

I literally never really cared about 5G, because I almost always get awesome 4G speeds and almost never have any buffering or lag when using KZbin, Netflix and other streaming services. I use video calls daily and with them also everything is without problem, even when I also browse the Internet. And you're right, someone had to say it, I'm glad you made this video! 🔥

[@visualaudio22]

That and where most people live 3g still didnt exist

[@koukkoufos2000]

You can’t watch 4k videos with just a 10 mbps 4G or LTE network. You need 5G or 30 mbps 4G or faster for that

[@PriyanshuKumar-nq2sm]

@@koukkoufos2000 who tf watches 4k vds, even the widest audience creator from Mr beast to most commercial news channel BBC spread their content in 1080p or even 720p sometimes

[@Random_dud31]

@@koukkoufos2000 why would you watch 4k videos on your phone? Or how?

[@poxbox6729]

@@koukkoufos2000 if that's true then. Where the hell are you gonna get the 30 MBPS or Higher from 5G if even mrwhosetheboss got 5 MBPS With a full bar?

[@4FrogsStacked]

I remember 5G coming out when I was working at Best Buy.. I never had high hopes for it. The range alone was enough for me to call this a dud. The amount of towers you have to set up and the unreliability of the signal is a recipe for disaster. My exact sentiment was what you said in the video: I would much rather have more reliable 4G and more coverage than 5G speeds. I always told people when I was selling phones that a 5G plan isn't worth it lol

[@Elonas]

where you working now? just curious

[@mirai3263]

Try looking up about 4G LTE+

[@TechHug]

Low-band 5G is where the good stuff. Stop focusing on millimeter waves and treating it like it's all there is. Low-band increases coverage massively and the real potential of 5G.

[@4FrogsStacked]

@@TechHug Low band is fine, but I would still prefer better 4g coverage. I used to live in an area with spotty coverage, so I'm biased in that regard. This is beside the point, but when 5g first came out, Verizon was pushing hi band 5g benefits the hardest. Other companies followed suit with low band 5g, but made little to no effort to educate the customers on the difference between the two. I had this convo many times, having to explain the difference between low and hi band.

[@4FrogsStacked]

@@Elonas not saying where, but not at best buy lol. I was there for a couple years during college in the mobile department

[@croolis]

A very interesting video and explains something I experienced recently: I live in the Philippines, in the middle of nowhere. There is 4G available here ahead it's ok. A couple of weeks ago I went to the mainland and noticed my phone switched to 5G, while on the highway quite a bit far away from any city. I saw this as strange - in my head 5G was a predominantly urban thing and wasn't even capable of replacing 4G on a wide area. The other thing I noticed is that each time my phone switched to 5G it basically lost service (as in connected to the tower but the data rate was too slow to actually use, compared to 4G which was fine) .. thanks for a very informative video.

[@PatrikKron]

I’ve had the same experience inside a building i had 0,5mbps on 5G and 40mbps on 4G. (Outside the building 5G was fast at almost 800mbps, but very locally, 100meters away there was no 5G coverage)

[@DeadAccount53885]

5g is stronger but has shorter range, and less "punch" to go through walls

[@parrotshootist3004]

Its not for humans

[@ChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChin4]

5G is an urban thing here in PH you can't find a 5G tower outside the city just like in Remote province and still many people have not 5G capable smartphones to acquire 5G signal. 5G got more issues too. Better to stick 4G for good.

[@plica06]

@@ChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChin4 What's PH ?

[@jerryfaircloth]

Every engineer knew that there is no way to eliminate delay over a network with physical distance involved. What the vendors and carriers were really talking about is distributing the server services nearer to the clients phones to reduce latency. Yes they definitely mislead everyone except those who understand physics. And the mmwave issues with range are also something that we cant fix yet (laws of physics apply again) so expect that to be very slowly implemented due to the extreme cost involved.

[@rxonmymind8362]

This is what happens when marketing takes over the engineering department.

[@jedikv]

We need more videos like this that take a sceptical look at marketing vs reality - very good video

[@Ansh.Katiyar]

5:33 what a scene man, editors' real chad

[@NotBlaKe.]

That was a F'n Jumpscare!!

[@StylizedStation]

hey thats my video you're watching at 4:10! Thanks for making my day :D

[@YourLocalgoof69420]

Can you shout me out please?

[@cryptorial]

@@YourLocalgoof69420 lol

[@filipmadjar4603]

The car thing scared the soul out of me💀

[@quequekhari]

Same 🤣🤣🤣

[@austinmcmichael5576]

Facts 🙌

[@F.S92]

I just now recently moved from 3G to 4G. I remember back in the day when 4G was a buzz word. Yet most people were struggling to reach 3G signal. Now I can go anywhere and have 4G 99% of the time. Its never good to be an early adopter in tech. Especially when it’s regarding a whole country wide infrastructure update.

[@TheOnlyName]

I remember 2G 😄

[@F.S92]

@@TheOnlyName 2G the friendzone of internet signals. Like yeah Im here but you cant use me for anything 🤣

[@Q_QQ_Q]

back in the day of 3G , i used to upto 15 - 16 mbps but now 4G hovers around 10 🤣🤣

[@IFlipRizla]

I disagree. I was one of the very first to get 4G when it came out, when hardly anyone used it, speed was amazing! Did the same with 5G, but as soon as its adopted by the masses and that initial honeymoon period is over, you really notice it. Nowadays if it didn't tell me if I was on 4G or 5G, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference as they both behave the same.

[@Q_QQ_Q]

@@IFlipRizla no 5G is a scam

[@Blackburnian737]

This makes a lot of sense! I had noticed my iphone 12 not being able to handle any data or connection at all on 5g, especially in cars. I found LTE worked way better to the point that I have set my phone to LTE only because it is just so useless on 5g

[@mouferhecker6423]

I have a 12 as well. It just drains my battery!

[@Variable_Degree_Series]

@@mouferhecker6423 yes, more than anything, it drains battery a lot. I just use wifi when at home or work and use 4g when I am out if I need internet..

[@FTorrez81]

fwiw Verizon installed a 5GUW (actual 5G) close to where I live and I rarely use my home wifi now. These speeds are amazing

[@AI-GPT-NPC]

@@Variable_Degree_Series 5g uses more energy than all the previous generations combined.

[@mtolm]

Same on pixel 6 pro

[@bihamdabih]

I really love how you cover the topic thats not many techtuber cover. Really love your content and channel. Keep making good stuff.

[@whitecrowtech4948]

Exactly to the point , congrats! I wish more professional journalists where this open thinking and honest for the industry they “live from”

[@jayr2537]

I upgraded from a Xs to 14pro at launch and was excited to experience these crazy 5G speeds they relentlessly advertised for years, only to find out 4G is actually faster. I've tested 5 different cities and a lot of the times the phone is barely connected (under 1mb down or up). Very disappointing to spend so much money on the latest/greatest tech only to get speeds that were considered mediocre 10 years ago.

[@mankind8088]

GOT EM😭🤣😂😭🤣😂😭🤣

[@circuitprogaming3652]

Yep, me too! Super satisfied with my OnePlus 7 Pro on 4G. Upgraded to a Pixel 7 Pro and the speeds are downright atrocious. I will sit sometimes for upwards of 2 whole minutes waiting for websites to load. And sometimes, this is in the heart of one of the biggest cities in my state.

[@Powerroni]

@@circuitprogaming3652 so true i also got that same phone

[@nurmn6325]

maybe its because your area is not covered 5g yet

[@aaronbenny6252]

@@nurmn6325 mine is fully covered with 5g but it is the same thing here

[@kweku_abeku]

Arun wont make you watch his videos without taking notes. A lot of education gone on in there. Thank you Arun

[@mycosys]

its also completely wrong

[@Saiyan_Universe]

@@mycosys how on earth is it wrong?

[@hello64522]

Fight fight fight

[@mick62569]

I think it was a scam. Cash grab . It seems to be a trend in the tech. They should never sell products until infrastructure is soundly in place.

[@Saiyan_Universe]

@@hello64522 ??

[@impossibur]

3:44 that post-soviet background 😄

[@JLMtime]

LTE was actually suppose to be the last upgrade it means - Long Term Evolution - it is suppose to be able to get a boost of speed each generation regardless how old your phone gets.. my 5G F sucks its laggy AF

[@Turnpost2552]

Lol the last upgrade. What you think life ends when Tmobile lauches a new g.

[@James_Knott]

Yep, it was long term evolution and 5G is an evolution of the tech that was in 4G. It was never intended to be an end point. BTW, LTE was a term used when 4G was just being rolled out and not fully implemented. Some people said it meant 4G Lite. 🙂

[@popidey6797]

lmao which countr? ​@@James_Knott

[@James_Knott]

@@popidey6797 Canada. Back in 2012, I was working on the LTE rollout for a major Canadian cell company.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

My Moto G Stulus 2022 4G is practically aimed at LTE looks like I'm secretly smart.

[@libra.]

1:58 that's a weird screen

[@austinmartin3540]

We just got rickrolled

[@gossbert_25]

From SHM to rickrolled.

[@Umaisbrawlstars]

4:15 what was that bald man in the back ground doing 😂😂 Arun how awkward was it to tell him you were making a video I need answers

[@merbudd]

I think he was trying to cover up his face because he didn't know there was going to be a background blur

[@mrnobody9268]

5:30 scared me to fucking death

[@sethdbrown30]

I've ran speed tests back to back and 4G was the same as 5G. The biggest issue with 5G is reliability and network switching. It's so annoying to constantly drop calls while I'm driving down the road when the phone is switching between 4g and 5g. I've disabled 5G on my phone

[@niveddo]

Arun, loved this video so so so much! It's probably one of my favourite videos you've posted this year. Seems like you spend time on actually bringing information, than spending a couple of dollars on random things on the internet! Keep Going Boss✨♥️

[@deizu9443]

5:40 i wouldn't like that because if there's an interference with the signals well the patient could die

[@OlegDorbitt]

or a cyber attack

[@k1necorporationmedia]

Next video: Why 6G Sucks

[@mctogo001]

Literally

[@ThatYoutubeGuy247]

Yes please

[@hampusbrokmann8249]

Exactly 😂😂

[@Mini43t9]

South Korea got 6g and it's too fast

[@davebaconusa1062]

And 5g is amaze-balls.

[@christopherosullivan3208]

Very well presented, also important for people to check local 5G reception as they push 5G home internet

[@Dominus_Potatus]

5G home internet will face same fate as others, it won't be as reliable as fiber. The problem with fiber is it is expensive at initial cost and harder to maintain than wireless from business perspective.

[@fynkozari9271]

What's 5G home internet? I have been using 5ghz wifi for years.

[@Dominus_Potatus]

@@fynkozari9271 Literally using cellular connection as your main home internet

[@elvinhaak]

@@fynkozari9271 5ghz has nothing at all to do with 5G. 5G is 'fifth generation' of mobile data so says nothing about frequency of signals.

[@Betapro461]

I have 5G home internet and it's amazing. Minimal setup, 300 Mbps down, and reasonable pricing.

[@killing_falcon]

5:31 Nooooooo Arun 😱 R.I.P. 😭

[@bad_money]

I won't be surprised if they're going to slow down 4G LTE so that you're more likely to switch to 5G.

[@littlelebowski7714]

Sounds like a plan

[@DestroyerOff]

@@everything_huawei_pro4743 not rly. Where I live I get good 5g most of day, from college to home.

[@Lanon0987654321]

Eventually LTE networks will get less resources yes but that wouldn't happen yet specially considering 5G Cores aren't even on yet

[@sorryi6685]

@@littlelebowski7714 happened in China already.

[@Sharp66]

I don't know about you but my 4g sucks now.

[@jordansilverman8039]

I completely agree. When 5G pops up on my phone, the vast majority of the time, it's super slow and doesn't work. It seems that switching between 5G and 4G is pretty haphazard as well and causes a lot of disruption. Definitely considering turning 5G off on my Samsung Galaxy S21.

[@donnawetter1513]

Got an S22, never turned on 5G, as I think it also consumes more power and brings no advantages on my handheld device. Downloads with 4g are just fine, I don't really need Gigabyte files in a few seconds on a phone, in fact my data plan is only about 5 GB anyway.

[@tico78742]

I turned off 5g and now much more reliable speed. Disappointing.

[@mark1.]

9:30 I saw what you did there

[@VintageToiletsRock]

You just described exactly how I felt ever since the announcement of 5G! I thought of these scenarios, but grit my teeth not wanting to be a party pooper or "impede" progress.

[@eternalpanic1]

6:22 that sound effect was funnier than it should have been

[@pneusur]

*BONK*

[@shaavin.b]

*BONK*

[@BhavitAnand_]

*BONK*

[@McObama]

*BONK*

[@RyuIsFine]

*BONK*

[@AlexLexusOfficial]

I like how Arun respawned and continued talking just for us

[@MrBahjatt]

Probably the most useful video yet, and thank you for clarifying the points. I often thought of acquiring a 5G device but given where I live (Jordan) and the fact that 5G is not likely to come any time soon (nor provide any appreciable speed over 4G) makes one reconsider their decisions on what phone to upgrade to.

[@BeastyMan]

My name, do it...

[@ctown2112]

The one use case were 5G mmWave really makes sense is in large venues, arenas and stadiums. If you live in a city and frequently go to sporting events as many people do this is a huge benefit. The transmitters can be positioned in a way to avoid obstruction. This is made trivial by the configuration of most arenas where the line of sight is of crucial importance. i’m sure that many of us have experienced extremely slow or essentially useless connections when attending a big event not only with this, improve the experience for the people in the arena, but will also improve the experience for people surrounding the arena in the already dense parts of the city, where the old 4G towers would be overwhelmed, stealing, bandwidth from even those outside.

[@jb888888888]

Why would people even go to a big sporting etc. event in order to be on their phones?

[@dustinzilbauer7582]

​@@jb888888888Very good point there. Why the hell would anyone feel the need to stream high bandwidth content at a football game? Just doesn't make any real world sense.

[@vijfsnippervijf]

​@@jb888888888SOS. What if a rally or fire happens when the mobile connection drops out in such a massive crowd?

[@alkaholic4848]

We already have this.... it's called "wifi".

[@dfamily6067]

Thank you sooo much! Finally someone is speaking abt my pain. We are paying way too much for stupid speeds

[@mikemccabe8015]

Thank you for posting this vid. I've lately been pretty frustrated with my cell provider that I contemplated switching carriers. Before I did that, I started to do some research into 5G and found what you had explained about it bundling all of the other network speeds into one. I was pretty frustrated with this to be honest and 5G is forever ruined for me. My only concern is that I've noticed 4G LTE goes much slower than it previously did. But now I'm not actually sure if I'm getting LTE or just regular 4G or even 3G. I miss the days of when if I had the LTE symbol, it meant I was going to actually have a good, solid connection.

[@christianfoghsrensen5744]

you cannot have 4G without LTE, because LTE is the technology 4G is based on. you can however, have LTE, without it being 4G, So called 3G LTE, if you should describe it correctly, which nobody does, because bad marketing, it's also known as 3.9G because it was the last 3G technology, before it became 4G, it was based on the ideas and technologies in development for 4G, and serve as a middle link between the 2 technologies, however, it doesn't fulfill the requirements sat for 4G by the 3GPP association. therefore, it was technically illegal to call it 4G, and therefore, they often just call it LTE, for marketing purposes, to make it sound like it's 4G.

[@James_Knott]

"if I'm getting LTE or just regular 4G" Same thing. LTE (Long Term Evolution) was a term used when 4G was first being rolled out and not fully implemented. Some people took LTE to mean 4G Lite. :-) However, that was years ago, and 4G is now the full spec.

[@BigClive]

Whoa! Don't feed the conspiracists. The 5G beams do not have more energy - they are actually weaker because the network relies on lots of local low power nodes that are more like a WiFi router in the street than the old cellular towers. They are also less likely to use the millimetre waves because they are "less bouncy" and mean reception in your home would be rubbish. Better out in the street itself where the node can aim a low power signal roughly in your direction instead of beaming it in all directions. But yes, the phone networks have hyped a network that isn't ready yet. Just like they did with 3G and 4G when they were new. There's no reward for buying the latest tech in this way, since you are basically a guinea pig helping fund it.

[@StefanReich]

60 GHz is a dangerous frequency though

[@BigClive]

@@StefanReich It was jumped on by the conspiracists because it is absorbed by oxygen molecules. It just heats them slightly.

[@danielroselinsky1875]

5:20 Where did that lady come from?

[@luminescent92]

The lady was already behind him, that's why she came out of nowhere

[@VIC_TOR_]

Spawned

[@GeniXDude]

she just spawned

[@pumpkeh]

I agree with this title, its a gimmick IMO. Glad to see you pumping out vids like usual tho.

[@pumpkeh]

I know but im just agreeing with the title. ❤ Also just happy that he’s pumping out more great videos.

[@sabrinakingsley798]

This is such a generic comment to get likes lol. You made this comment 30 secs from publish then got called out then updated the comment to be even more generic. Internet likes aren't that necessary guy

[@0638]

your mom

[@pumpkeh]

@@sabrinakingsley798 Also I fixed a spelling mistake karen.

[@bryantfloyd7471]

I have disabled 5G and set my smartphone to connect to 4G LTE only, and now I am able to get up to 15% longer runtime per charge cycle.

[@Noonenator]

6:57 nice hat

[@sumdude445]

The stupidest thing ever was the anti 5G people thought tin foil hats like that would protect themselves from the "dangerous" 5G towers

[@Raul-wt5jx]

OMG you are so correct. It got so bad with me I thought my phone was defective. It got to the point where I had to turn off 5G and I've been using 4G ever since.

[@ivanmalinovski7807]

@@everything_huawei_pro4743 How much is Huawei paying you?

[@fiscalizacaoletterboxd]

@@ivanmalinovski7807 he's right tho Huawei is goated fr

[@tihruytssgjjvsavcxtbvhj3429]

I've done 30+ speed tests comparing 5g and LTE. 5g was faster in 2/30 tests Tied in 6/30 tests LTE was faster in 22/30 I've permanently disabled 5g.

[@bigcdub]

@@everything_huawei_pro4743 Nobody's using that garbage phone, keep it right where you are...

[@shadowyzephyr]

@@tihruytssgjjvsavcxtbvhj3429 Obviously it depends on your location, but yeah it's not good

[@binulaekanayake]

I'm just gonna say it: this man is getting better and better with his ways of rickrolling us...

[@Finnec123]

Who cares about that childish thing? 😑

[@Adnan_2099]

@@Finnec123 ☻️

[@kittywithagun7742]

@@Finnec123 apparently you, since it's worth your time to talk about it

[@jstgamerz04]

@@kittywithagun7742 ahaa got him 😂

[@Finnec123]

@@kittywithagun7742 Staying silent is agreeing. So I don't stay silent.

[@GhostOfParisMiami]

Man I seriously love your vids. You really put your heart in them and try your best to make them perfect

[@overpowergameryadav7198]

Almost got an heart attack 5:35

[@tosspot1305]

Another huge problem is that most UK masts are really oversubscribed so we're basically in the same position as we were with 4G

[@chronicleheavy]

Arun always finds a way to rickroll us in every video.

[@athenspastel4685]

Of course lol 😂

[@yssfv]

bot ive seen you 10 times in his vids

[@0638]

rickroll your mom

[@pumpkeh]

I see you so many times, bot?

[@rushikeshtapre8620]

🗿 YES

[@ltstheprogamer]

1:42 A 5G tooth brush... Will it be used as a Mike...

[@vamos419]

Not gonna lie, you scared me at 5:30

[@Jakevd]

Yes me to

[@Digitizedtech]

I live in a suburban area in the US and it feels like T-mobile has almost achieved that goal. By using “Mid band” 5G and covering most urban and suburban areas, as well as major freeways, it’s much faster in the important places. For reference, my location gets 800 mbps since I’m close to a tower but most populated places still get at least 100 mbps on 5G which is a win.

[@chrcoluk]

This video is long overdue, been very happy on 4G for a long time, works great indoors as well, but I have noticed in my city the 5G coverage is tiny, tiny little circles around transmitters. On my 5G phone I have to force 4G as 5G is less stable and slower due to weak signal.

[@xanafein8453]

Yup plus samsung recently blocked access to the band selection menu

[@EliteEnayet]

That's why I am satisfied with my 3G in Bangladesh 🇧🇩😁

[@gobimurugesan2411]

South Asia is cursed bro.

[@FuzzyPlayz-pf5dm]

Im bangladeshi too!!

[@sharanmourya]

I am a researcher in 5G and I can say for sure that this is the most accurate and admirable video on 5G right now. Great job!!

[@MostlyPennyCat]

I often switch my phone to 3G only because i get a reliable 6mbps low latency connection. Because everybody moved off 3G, it's bands are unused at the moment. This is in the UK.

[@dave8204]

3G will be switched off in the UK quite soon,a stroke of genius as hundreds of thousands of the earlier smart meters run on that system.

[@kojoebeatz4806]

I get so excited everytime my notification bell goes off and I see a pop up of your video upload! I'm never disappointed! Great job Arun. Really insightful this one! Let's chill with 5G for now. 4G ain't bad at all.

[@TheAkdzyn]

Thanks for enlightening me. The politics aspect is mildly infuriating but I understand. This video feels very timely and was explained really well. I live in a country with no 5g infrastructure and often wonder how significant the difference would be if we had it. Turns out we're not really missing much. My Internet speed is sufficient for what I use it for (streaming, browsing and occasional downloads of files that don't exceed 5GBs at a time). Your videos are so interesting and charming it's hard to get distracted. Thank you.

[@mrwhosetheboss114]

I really love this guy

[@sunnohh]

Idk what he is on about, just went from 4g to 5g service and big improvement for the most part…

[@praiseadekunle1096]

there is 5g in africa mtn 5g

[@TheAkdzyn]

@@sunnohh what are the main improvements you've experienced (speed/reliability etc.)?

[@TheAkdzyn]

@@praiseadekunle1096 That's good. We don't have mtn here so I think it's a question of not having a network carrier that can support 5g yet. As the video mentions, it takes hardware infrastructure to support 5G Internet and our carriers haven't installed it yet.

[@RealMadrid010]

These videos are always so good! Keep up the good work!

[@miscme7116]

So far I'm very satisfied with the 5G that I use at home (I live in Finland). I live in an area with multiple apartment buildings, so there must be a lot of other users in the area. I have a 1000M deal (45 Euros per month, unlimited data) and in the beginning I was getting maximum of 300M download, however one day it just exploded and now I am getting most of the time very close or even over the maximum promised speed. It is actually hard to reach the bandwidth limit even if I try. Only once, one day it was slow (around 200M), the rest of the time very good speeds near or over 1000M. I am fully trying to use the bandwidth as much as possible. According to the operator, my account is clocking around 17-20TB download traffic every month and no one has complained yet. 😀

[@tarekcool8640]

Oh damn, here in Germany we pay 50€ for not even 100 download... You're lucky to have a proper internet connection

[@James_Knott]

@@tarekcool8640 I'm in Canada and for $65 I get up to 1 Gb and unlimited data, though throttled after 90 GB.

[@user-lv3yv7eg5t]

In Sweden most providers has a limit on around 1.5TB/month regardless of the type of access(fiber, mobile etc). You have a good contract.

[@miscme7116]

@@user-lv3yv7eg5t It is a company contract from my workplace which may be the key difference why I haven't hit any limits yet. I fully expected something to happen but it just keeps working. With fiber in any type of contract I do not understand why such a limit would be relevant.

[@williamphillips544]

I really felt this. There was this time over the last two months where I lost internet at my home. So I was cool, no problem, it's out in my area. So I download Microsoft Teams for I can tell my team, that my internet was down, which also happened to several other employees. It took my phone forever to download. Because my phone only uses 5G because I have a Samsung. If it senses it, it uses it, even though the 4G LTE network is way better in my area. Called my Provider and was told that the 5G plan I have isn't good enough, that I needed to be the top tier one. Bill increased by 30 dollars. Just to use my phones 5G function. A feature, that as an owner of this phone. I should be allowed to disable.

[@BgMasterGames]

But there is an option to disable 5G and only use 4G and down

[@rohanr.k8044]

Yes, you should be allowed to disable it. Which is y u are allowed to. Go to settings > connections > mobile networks and change it there

[@anosvoldigoat3351]

You can just change the mobile network settings from 5g to lte Don't blame Samsung settings for your stupidity and ignorance

[@dprrn]

Used to be an app that let you access the band selection menu of a Samsung but a software update killed that. It will still let you get to a menu to select 3g/4g/5g.

[@jimhalpert9421]

Maybe instead of getting the 30 dollar upgrade, you should have chosen the 30 dollar downgrade to just 4G ;-)

[@Yash-afk]

1:58 can we just appreciate the effort put into this one shot, just amazing work Arun 👏 🙌

[@SquirrelTheorist]

Arun and his team of two (I believe, unless he has new hires). Hot take: best tech channel on KZbin.

[@nnsnnisthegoat]

rickroll

[@berisiq]

Goddamn it

[@nanyabiznus4738]

69G? You guys didn't get that? It was implying the user was clicking for porn and got rickrolled. Atleast what I got

[@PranavSinganapalli]

0:49 companies didn't figure out only in 2015 that higher frequencies mean more speed. It's was a well known fact. The trade off was range from the tower. Higher frequencies don't travel that far and can't penetrate objects like walls and trees quite as well as lower frequencies can. This means many more expensive towers are needed for the same coverage. Higher frequency also does not mean more energy. Each peak and trough of the wave is one bit. Higher frequencies have more of them. Therefore the data rate increases. There is nothing else to it

[@cobaltblue5523]

Preach

[@Seth22087]

One funny thing I very quickly found out about 5G was when I was standing in open are with coverage, if I faced direction of the tower, I got full signal and speed, but if I turned 180 degrees, signal would immediately drop due to my body being in between and connection would get less reliable at slower speeds. Like it had hard time penetrating my body or getting around it. Only reason why I got it in my subscription now is because it eventually got included "without extra charge", probably used for mobile service providers favorite thing, rising subscription few months latter. Since they always do this, first add to the subscription plan, wait for 3-6 months then rise the price and say how it is market conditions and them offering more and more... without answering question about who asked for more in the first place. :-D Then some people think they are smart ans change providers, since not all of them do it at the same time, but within 2-4 months latter, they all hiked their prices. Some just delay it to get people to come over, but each time they take turns. And that is lovely world of local service providers. Anyway, generally, it is just early days of 5G and it has slow deployment, plus with making things messier with whole different bands, some slower for range, others faster for few locations, they tend to also oversell whole coverage, since you see slow wavelength coverage on their maps, not fast one. Though I will admit, having phone to auto switch between everything kind of works fine for me, usually when it gets too bad it will switch to 4G. I only had to manually switch back when it was first deployed, since phone would want to stay on 5G and that made experience so much worse. But dunno if it is improvements from service providers, updates to phone or both, something made it better.

[@alvesvaren]

I had 5G added to my phone plan, i’ve been able to use it in one place I’ve been at. Sure, 900Mbit/s speed is really impressive, but I’ve never needed more than maybe 10Mbit/s anyways. There’s also ”5G” outside my house but it’s less than 5Mbit/s and switching to 4G gives me ~65Mbit/s.

[@vincentlee7937]

Coming from Japan back to the west and realizing most region just got their 4G while some other still didn’t have it but every ISP are talking how much 5G u get with them is definitely an out of the world experience

[@VanquishedAgain]

Idk what west you're going to but we've had 4G in the US for a decade...

[@igorbednarski8048]

"The west" is a ridiculously broad term that covers multiple continents, could you be more specific? 4G coverage varies widely from country to country for both economic and geographic reasons.

[@NotTured]

i am from middle east (iraq) and there is no support for 5g, while 4g is there but it doesn't cover all the cities in it which makes it bad and there is a lot of 3g left instead of 4g.

[@doggy101]

@@NotTured well im from israel and theres a lot of 5g here, so i guess im lucky

[@NotTured]

@@doggy101 yes

[@artvibes7699]

1:58 he never miss a chance to rickroll me 🤡💀

[@nicknovacentral682]

I live in South Africa and whenever my phone picks up 5G its slower than 3G. I had to manually restrict my phones access to 5G just to use it normally...

[@tcm_is_taken]

Same, i have to use my mobile data most of the time coz of my wifi being rain

[@swaroopajit]

I literally did the same thing a year ago with the A52, opted for the 4G variant and actively told other people also to do the same.

[@prajwalbharambe343]

Hehe. My dad bought 5g phones for him and mom too. Still waiting for 5g signal😂

[@FragTix]

4:52 who else loves reading these while the video is playing?

[@BoardZzy]

Me

[@FrozenBrawlStars]

Meeee

[@Kor1134]

A phone switching between 3G and 4G was seamless because there were two radios, 1 for each band. A phone switching between 4G and and 5G is disruptive because one radio has to disconnect from one signal then establish a link with the other. 5G has been the bane of my mobile life, constantly switching bands and breaking whatever app I happen to be using at the time.

[@bashful7000]

Great video! This is a very frustrating topic and I can add to your info. 18 months ago AT&T, my 10 plus year carrier in the US, shut off my two cell phones saying we were being forced to transfer over to phones that were 5G. The free phones they sent to replace mine were not even close to the smart phone functionality I had. I managed to convince them to turn my service back on until I could find a suitable replacement. In the process they refused to support two new options that I chose. I found that Verizon was less money, approached AT&T about matching and they told me that the price is the price, they don't negotiate and that they were reducing their offering even further soon. I made a transition to my new phone if choice, and moved to Verizon, come to find out Samsung never told anyone in the process that dual SIM is only supported in Europe. They could port my number but not activate it. And then refused to switch me back to my old phone citing they cannot go back to a 4G phone. All of this to say that I rarely see my phone in 5G mode and it's usually at an airport. Which is ironic because there have been fights about banning 5G at airports due to interference with transmission. Arun keep doing your thing! Keep digging! These facts are maddening and need to be heard! Thank you for showing the root cause, supporting with facts. The phone companies are part of the problem too.

[@PatrikKron]

Wow that’s terrible customer experience. Especially since non of that was required, I could understand if you where on a 2G only phone and they where shutting down the 2G network. But not for 4G. They could have easily only made it possible to sign up for 5G service when upgrading, instead of forcing you. In Sweden the major carriers support 5G and it’s included on the plans with more than 15GB for all carriers (less on some). Although one carrier only let you use the 5G network at 4G speed unless you pay an additional fee… But none of them have forces upgrades. And if you are on a low-price-carrier (that’s using the network of the main carriers but have less customer support) you can not get 5G yet. Although given that at least on my carriers network I have 5G at the train-station and nowhere else, that’s not really any loss.

[@ObamaPhoneProMax5G]

Damn. Yeah I’ve had terrible experience with AT&T in the past and wouldn’t recommend them to anyone. Been on T-Mobile since 2018 and never been happier. Phone bill never fluctuates from month to month and one of my family members was still using a 4g phone until relatively recently. All our old AT&T phones worked when we first switched over by just swapping the SIM cards. There’s no price hike between 4G and 5G as well.

[@beohbek]

I had a similar experience with AT&T, except my phone actually is 5G, but they would shut my service off anyway. Unfortunately, with AT&T you can't use Xiaomi 5G phones due to a lack of certifications required to run on their network, so my newly purchased Poco F3 (which is most definitely 5G) was a no-go for use with them. Ended up switching to T-Mobile.

[@gaming_pains]

AT&T is mean, but I am on AT&T and I have fast internet, so good I guess. Also never get charter it's super slow

[@thatontorguy9993]

These videos never disappoint, keep up the good work.

[@vincent8273]

Really been enjoying your content lately! If you had to enter the market for smartphones, how would you proceed? What kind of features would you put weight on? Would be a cool concept for a video with your background in reviews - if the video doesn’t exist already

[@spookyskeptic4978]

I agree. I'd watch that and I hope phone execs would to.