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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by kllrnohj on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:00PM (#25040472)
Because it's one of the few things you can actually point at and be like "that's why you need a new phone!"

Same reason why Apple was all about that 5G during the iPhone 12 announcement.

Doesn't matter if it'll never be useful, all that matters is that the feature sheet lists it and a canned demo will show unreal speeds.

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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by Dylan16807 on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:54PM (#25042094)
5G in general is important. It means compatibility for the future, access to more towers, and access to more frequencies. So sure, you need mmwave to get gigabits per second, but 5G without mmwave still has a good amount to show off and make sales with.
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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by pjmlp on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:50AM (#25043673)
In Europe we hardly have proper LTE and HSCSD support outside main cities, I couldn't care less about 5G.
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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @04:42AM (#25044194)
That depends entirely on what new towers are deployed with. If they keep trickling out LTE, then you can ignore 5G just fine. But if they leapfrog LTE and new deployments devote most of the frequencies to 5G, then you're probably going to want a 5G radio to have fewer gaps in coverage.
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