Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin after years of using 4G 5g networks are just starting to roll out and with that we should be able to see propper gigabit class speeds but if you own a flagship in the last couple years you might have noticed something strange a 5ge logo so have you been using a 5g phone this entire time without realizing it ya know like 4G before it 5g is not as straightforward as it might seem there are several competing 5g standards being built out right now for example here in LA you can sign up for Verizon's 5g home service this is using an early version of 5g which according to Verizon is good for up to 20 times the speed of LTE and in the real world delivers about 300 megabits per second down although theoretically it can go up to 900 and 40 megabits completely wirelessly that's actually pretty good and it shows how 5g can be used Delhi of course for your phone and for your laptop and tablet but also it can be used to completely replace a standard home internet line so putting aside for a second this isn't true 5g just yet there is a ton of potential here the final 5g spec calls for a theoretical maximum of 20 gigabits per second although realistically it's going to be much closer to one gigabit but that is still a huge huge bump over what we have today that brings us to five ge now this is short for 5g evolution and it is what 18 T is calling 5g although spoiler alert it's not 5g so to give you a better idea of what 5g is we have a little bit of an example so this is Pikachu and for this reference will call them 5g as you can see he's very cheery he's very happy all good right well this is me me Q now on the surface it looks very similar to Pikachu except these really LTE with some weird like drawings on his face clearly not the same thing are you following maybe I should explain this a little bit better so if you take a look at the AT&T site they describe 5ge as quote the first step on the road to 5g so it does support some additional technologies that come with LTE advanced such as 4x4 as well as some better streaming and better compression but generally speaking this is not 5g even though they're slapping that 5g badge all over it if this all sounds familiar then you right back when 18t was transitioning from 3G to 4G they sent an update to their phones to change the badge to say for GE when it is actually still on 3G yeah they're they're doing that one again so based on all of this it seems pretty clear to me that v GE is not going to deliver a true next-gen experience but to be fair I think it's time to put it to the test so let's see if we can actually track down a fight GE phone and see how it actually performs I was wondering do you guys have any view that the 5g phones done yet I know I saw they're like a couple of ads about it the ones that are compatible Reena would be the iPhone 10s and 10's max I was reading something that the LG phones had it as well pretty sure like the v40 that's what I had read as well the v40 had it gotcha could basic I want to get a phone for my dad and he's like he upgrades his phones very rarely so I'll make sure he has something v GE so you know he won't have to upgrade again a couple years once it's really common yeah I think um you know what I'm gonna ask our LG rep to be awesome thank you that was fun so did not get a phone but we got some interesting information they did confirm that it does support 5g so I think the main phone looking for is the v40 everything that I've read up until now seems to show that that actually is one of the phones that does show the 5g badge unfortunately this store didn't get many V 40s and they shipped them all back because they didn't sell them oh thank you appreciate it hey I had a question so I'm looking for a phone for my dad and I know you guys are rolling out 5g soon right which phones are flights you capable is gonna be the first which phones that we have or 5tq okay that'd be great yeah yeah so it is 5ge so it's not okay 5g so there's no phone out that's true 5g yeah okay um so the v40 does support the 5ge also the SI the s9 is do support 5ge but it's not when you consider true 5g what's the difference it's faster than 4G it's in between what 5g is gonna be so it there's no actual device of actual 5g okay gotcha it's 5ge capable which is what they're releasing now which are all the samsung s nines okay the LG b 40 okay that's it okay do you have any of the equity you have the V 40s so we have an LG v 40 that supports full 5 GE at least I hope it does now I have to put a sim card in here and hope that uh 5g shows up and I can actually test to see if it's any good or whether I just spent nine hundred and fifty dollars on the phone that uh won't work so it is time to put 18 T's 5g network to the test so the first bottleneck is that we actually might not have 5 GE service here at the office I'm hopeful that we will but they don't know exactly have a whole lot of information about it so I'm gonna put a sim card in with actual data all right so it shows we're on ATT on LTE which is the correct thing because we should be on LTE but I want to see if this actually will show us five GE this v40 does have an update released on January 4th Oh excellent here we go what's new 5g evolution indicators support added okay so there is an update for the phone that specifically changes the indicator to 5g evolution now the question is why doesn't want to download so we got the phone up to date but fortunately it still shows 4G LTE now this should theoretically show 5g the main issue is that there's not 5g service here at the office so the next step is to track down 5g so we actually can test to see even though it's probably going to be the same this isn't going to be a definitive test but all I want to know is this does 5ge make any difference whatsoever so after taking a closer look at the five GE coverage areas one of the major spots that they do have is Los Angeles so we're here in Hollywood to see exactly whether or not this is going to work 0:05 GE we got it I actually legitimately did not think that was gonna work so it's really interesting is if you look at the actual network page what you'll see is even though it says five GE it still says LTE here because that's what it really is I guess the first test is just to see how fast it is so four point six down and sixteen up hardly a gigabit like they had promised now on the other side I have the iPhone 10 R and this is a phone which actually is listed on AT&T site as 5g compatible but if you take a look I have four bars of LTE not 5g it's the same thing well let's see if there's actually any difference oh are you trying to tell me that by G is slower to be clear these phones are both on AT&T there's no difference in any way except that this one is like ten times faster on the download twenty-nine thirty one thirty five are these settings the same are we gonna try like another site or something so because that seems very suspicious I'm going to try the standard Google speed test and see what we get all right where we got oh there we go okay that makes a lot more sense we're seeing way faster speeds on 5ge which makes sense if you think about it the 10r has a two by two LTE antenna versus the four by four antenna on the v40 okay let's do one more time ready set there we go yeah it's consistently pulling ahead this time actually buy a lot more so the iPhone still does have a little bit of an advantage on the upload but I mean the download is a big difference 5g is delivering almost double the speed now whether or not that's worthy of the 5g badge not so sure I mean realistically the goal for 5g proper 5g is over ten times the speed so the fact this a little bit faster than LTE it makes sense so what did we learn 5ge is just another name for lte-advanced and while it is faster you shouldn't go drop everything to buy a 5 g e enabled phone Tru Phi G is right around the corner