Off Topic 5G coverage

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petersaxton

petersaxton

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I've just got a 5G phone with Vodafone. Both London and Hull are supposed to have 5G coverage.
I couldn't get 5G on my phone and when I looked at the areas that Vodafone covers for 5G in London I see that the coverage is incredibly patchy. I am going to Hull this weekend so I also looked at the 5G coverage in Hull provided by Vodafone. There's absolutely no coverage!
 
petersaxton said:
I've just got a 5G phone with Vodafone. Both London and Hull are supposed to have 5G coverage.
I couldn't get 5G on my phone and when I looked at the areas that Vodafone covers for 5G in London I see that the coverage is incredibly patchy. I am going to Hull this weekend so I also looked at the 5G coverage in Hull provided by Vodafone. There's absolutely no coverage!
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Use a 4G phern...
 
They do that to make you buy a new one Pete. I reckon we should all go for the old Nokias that don't need recharging every 15 minutes.
 
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Evington said:
They do that to make you buy a new one Pete.
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That's pretty much only Apple. My battery has never degraded other than what is expected with age, which is minimal given I get a new phone every 2 years.

Until about two years ago, you would see big performance jumps in battery life due to better battery technology and reduction in software consumption but they seem to have plateaued a bit for now.
 
petersaxton said:
I've looked at 5G coverage with O2 and they have a few roads available in Hull.
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I read an article about 5g a year or so back and I recall it being line-of-sight, so you had to be in reasonably close proximity and visibility of a transmitter. which it is why it is by street. I'm not even sure it works indoors, when you are close to a transmitter.

Might be worth reading an article to see how it will work moving forward as it all sounded impracticle.
 
Anal Frank Fingers said:
I read an article about 5g a year or so back and I recall it being line-of-sight, so you had to be in reasonably close proximity and visibility of a transmitter. which it is why it is by street. I'm not even sure it works indoors, when you are close to a transmitter.

Might be worth reading an article to see how it will work moving forward as it all sounded impracticle.
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I needed a new phone anyway but maybe I should have gone straight to 6G!?
 
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Anal Frank Fingers said:
That's pretty much only Apple. My battery has never degraded other than what is expected with age, which is minimal given I get a new phone every 2 years.

Until about two years ago, you would see big performance jumps in battery life due to better battery technology and reduction in software consumption but they seem to have plateaued a bit for now.
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I read an article that said that after 400 complete charges the battery would degrade by 20%.
I wasn't interested in getting a new phone after my 18 month contract expired so I was on sim only for another 18 months but I was having to use my phone practically permanently plugged in to a power bank. If I didn't it would go down to 50% quickly and then within a few seconds down to 0%! The article said that you shouldn't let your battery go down to 0% or fully charge so I'll try to charge at 20% up to 80%.

My new Samsung Galaxy Note10+ 5G seems to only use about 3% battery in over an hour if I'm not using it. If I do use it it isn't much different. I spend most of my time at work in my home office so I don't use my phone much then. On Friday and Saturday I will be rushing around to various meetings in Hull so I'll be able to judge it better then.
 
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