If your phone shows “5G,” you’re not necessarily connected to the latest and zippiest cellphone network technology. It might just mean that 5G connections are available nearby.
And the bars are a cellular version of a shrug. There is no standard measure of how much signal strength each bar represents.
I'd kind of figured out the latter (or at least, I knew that it was murky), but had sort of assumed that if my phone said I had 5G, I had 5G. Good short piece on what actually happens when we make cell calls.
Gotta have the 5G UW and then test your speeds
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I was just going to ask, what about when it says "5G UW"?
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It's all a marketing scams.
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5G probably just giving us cancer
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My phone is a Redmi A10... it's not the new generation and I'm in Lima, Peru and it only shows me 4G... and I've never believed in that signal thing when it shows "Full Bars"..
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Im not surprised it is so vague.
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