Hey, Hope you people are fine. Therefore, in 2019, we are going to start to see many advertisements for '5G' enabled smartphones and the benefits of the 5G network.
Everything has it's Good and Bad. The same thing goes for 5G Phones. There are benefits but there are also the 5G problems.
The reality is, a properly rolled out 5G network is great! .You get super-fast internet speeds. You get the lower latency. You get the ability to connect a lot more devices to that super-fast internet. However, to get to that stage to get to that point, where it is like the Internet of Things (IoT) and everything is connected and talking to each other on the super-fast network. You need to overcome a very large obstacle.
This large obstacle or you can say this large 5G problem rather cast some shade on a whole 5G smartphone thing. It is the difference in 5G wavelength.
Difference Between the 5G Phones and 4G Phones signal wavelength.
A 5G-signal act very differently from the traditional lower frequency 4G wavelength, 5G signals have a significantly shorter range and weaker penetration than 4G signals. Therefore, things like walls those obviously affect the way that 5G signals get through.
Even it is something like a tree or an object or another human being between you and a 5G-cell tower will affect the signal strength. Furthermore, the way you hold your phone. If this was a 5G phone and if your hand is covering the antenna. It will attenuate the signal.
In addition, stuff like weather effects like rain, fog, the snow that can reduce the signal strength of 5G frequencies.
Solution
Therefore, the solution to this, the workaround to this problem is somewhat primitive; they are flooding cities that are going to be 5G enabled with a ton of cell towers. Therefore, this is not an exaggeration were an ideal situation where you want cell towers in every little street lamp that is a ton of them. They are going to be everywhere. Because you need to have as clear of a line of sight between your 5G phone and a signal tower to be able to use the 5G network properly.
Now, the problem with that is well, in terms of the network side. is it is very difficult and very slow to build up infrastructure like that? Like all the permits, all the requirements to get stuff like that done. There is also a push back from communities not everyone wants to be surrounded by these cell towers. There are issues of health risks like there is not a lot of long-term studies of EMF radiations from these new towers.
So for early adopter's, it'll be a long time before 5G phones and 5G technology can actually take advantage of real 5G-connectivity that's just the nature of this roll-out, it's not an easy roll-out and that's just the network side of things.
When it comes to phone hardware, there is the whole slew of other obstacles. 5G phones are going to be crazy expensive at launch. So, Pete Lau (CEO of One Plus). He was saying that their 5G enabled phones are going to cost $200 - $300 more than their regular 4G phones. In addition, If You have a $550-$600 phones, you throw on that 5G tax this is now an $800 or $900 phone. The budget phones and the fair price phones get to the crazy price point because of 5G capabilities.
The new Snapdragon 855 needs a separate 5G modem and multiple antenna modules to make this work on the 5G network.
The reason why you need so many antenna modules is the problem I was mentioning before; if you hand over any of the antennas it does not work, you need to have multiple antennas that it intelligently switches between to allow this thing to connect seamlessly with the network. It is difficult to do, it is expensive to do and it is going to cost the consumer a lot.
There is also the issue of shorter battery life so because you are transmitting and receiving 5G signals, it is going to invariably use more power than the regular 4G version. I mean you are going to get better speeds, of course, it is the new network. But, again the whole premise of 5G promises something like 10 times or 20 times the speed of 4G which in theory sounds great and maybe, in the future will get there.
But in the beginning when it first rolls out we're going to get like that snapdragon 855 on there, but the modem, that 5G modem can only hit, I think? Two and a half times what the 4G network can hit. So again it's faster but it's not going to be 10x or 20x it's going to be quite a few years before we hit those speeds.
Conclusion
It is not as if I am taking a dump on 5G, I feel like the technology is awesome and whenever we get there.
This article is more for the people that are interested in being early adopters for 5G smartphones. The technology sounds awesome. They are going to advertise those phones quite well. You are going to be tempted.
My point is in this current world of what we live in 5G enabled networks are going to be rolled out very slowly. So, if you are going to spend your money, like unless you just want that 5G experience. It is going to be a huge premium for something that will not be an amazing experience because it cannot be this early on.
It is going to get there .this is the groundwork for it. However, right now I would just hold off on 5G phones. Because that is just reality. It is not going to be that good at launch.
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