I'm stoked for the iPhone Mini, but the only feature I actually don't like is 5G. I would have rather this phone come out with existing LTE technology. I cannot foresee any situation where 5G will matter to me as a user, and it's just adding new and unproven technology into the mix. Do you think 5G will be optional on the user end?
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I don't know if this is a country-specific thing, but on my iPhone I've always had the option to manually choose 2g, 3g or 4g under mobile-data>mobile data options>voice and data. So I presume it'd be the same on the 12.
It's a rort here, for me to have 5G i have to upgrade my plan from $40AUD to a $65 plan lol, so extra $300 a year, its available in and around my town but i work from home, always have so would rarely use it, and when i go out of town for work to more rural areas you cant get it anyway.
AT&T has said you have to use a new SIM card to access 5G. I am going to use the sim in my iPhone XS Max in my iPhone 12 Pro Max. Hopefully that will negate the 5G In my new iPhone. I don’t want to change our phone plan for 5G.
No. Just people here on forums who said they talked to AT&T and were told that you have to use a new sim for 5G
Currently, you need one of AT&T's more expensive unlimited plans to even access 5G so it's really only worth it to the heaviest data users.
AT&T also said that you can put your current nano Sim into a new iPhone but to access 5G you will need an unlimited data plan (which we do not currently have). I am assuming that is because 5G uses a lot of data?
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AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag
AT&T phones often get just 5MHz of 5G spectrum, slowing them down in speed tests.
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AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag
AT&T phones often get just 5MHz of 5G spectrum, slowing them down in speed tests.
I still can't believe how much of a sh&t show 5G is in the U.S.
Without mid-band (3.5GHz), carriers like AT&T are forced to go low and Verizon has to go mmWave.
It's almost as if the regulators looked at the science behind 5G and said, "Let's make the 5G experience as bad as possible and force carriers to use outlier frequencies."
I don’t want to pay extra with AT&T for 5G until it is a better “experience”. We use WiFi at home and aren’t out and about with Covid so I do not want the extra expense of an unlimited plan to access 5G now.
T-Mobile has low band, mmWave in large metro areas and just turned on mid-band in 90 markets.
You are correct. You can switch your existing nano sim to your new iPhone and access 5G. BUT AT&T told me that you have to have an unlimited plan to use 5G.