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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by cogman10 on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:28PM (#25041237)
The major difference is that for wifi, you need to setup your connection to whatever wifi network is provided. With your cell data service, that happens automatically for you. You don't need to go in and explicitly join some guest network and sign their ToS.

Maybe if there was some "cell->wifi" standard that could happen, but I'm somewhat doubtful about the benefits there. You'd also have to be super careful, for the same reason you wouldn't really want to join a random open network.

Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by seraphsf on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:17PM (#25042234)
The WiFi industry is working on a new "cell->wifi" standard called OpenRoaming. Pixel phones turned on OpenRoaming support with Android 11.
Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by lttlrck on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:31PM (#25041979)
LTE WiFi offload takes care of securely transiting voice over untrusted networks (like your home network) to the telcos core network using IPSec.
Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by Dylan16807 on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:01PM (#25042140)
5G has a bunch of frequencies in the same range as wifi, too. They can handle a good chunk of density.