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No 5G support seems a bummer (can't see any mention it on the page). DOA for me for that fact alone. Hoping the new iPhones in September have it.

coder543 7y ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22879752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22879752 There are plenty of reasons to dislike the new iPhone SE, but I don't think lack of 5G should be one.
- benbristow 7y ago
  4G around the UK is pretty grim. I struggle to get any signal in the centre of Glasgow, especially around the Central train station. Even on 3G. Anything that helps is welcome.
  - coder543 7y ago
    I don’t see how 5G would help with that... that sounds like a carrier problem, not an LTE problem. In my personal (and possibly wrong) opinion, even a very popular train station shouldn’t have enough people to oversubscribe the LTE airwaves and cause signal congestion. The Atlanta airport has 3x to 4x as many passengers per year as Glasgow central station, and I’ve never had trouble getting good, solid cellular connection when I’m there... so I don’t think the number of people in close proximity is causing oversubscription of the airwaves. The carrier you use probably hasn’t put up enough towers, or the towers just don’t have enough backhaul bandwidth to do anything useful.
    - benbristow 7y ago
      Definitely is a carrier problem, but due to the decreased range of 5G it would make it more essential for the carriers to install more antennas around the area rather than getting away with having less for 4G/3G.
yumraj 7y ago
I'm actually happy that is has no 5G, and may buy it just for that.
- benbristow 7y ago
  Fair enough, but why would you be happy to not have the latest tech?
  - yumraj 7y ago
    two reasons: 1) don't care about speeds faster than what LTE provides 2) I think there are still some unanswered questions about 5Gs impact on health, and don't want the radio in my phone. I can wait, due to 1 above.

coder543 7y ago

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22879752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22879752 There are plenty of reasons to dislike the new iPhone SE, but I don't think lack of 5G should be one.

benbristow 7y ago
4G around the UK is pretty grim. I struggle to get any signal in the centre of Glasgow, especially around the Central train station. Even on 3G. Anything that helps is welcome.
- coder543 7y ago
  I don’t see how 5G would help with that... that sounds like a carrier problem, not an LTE problem. In my personal (and possibly wrong) opinion, even a very popular train station shouldn’t have enough people to oversubscribe the LTE airwaves and cause signal congestion. The Atlanta airport has 3x to 4x as many passengers per year as Glasgow central station, and I’ve never had trouble getting good, solid cellular connection when I’m there... so I don’t think the number of people in close proximity is causing oversubscription of the airwaves. The carrier you use probably hasn’t put up enough towers, or the towers just don’t have enough backhaul bandwidth to do anything useful.
  - benbristow 7y ago
    Definitely is a carrier problem, but due to the decreased range of 5G it would make it more essential for the carriers to install more antennas around the area rather than getting away with having less for 4G/3G.

yumraj 7y ago

I'm actually happy that is has no 5G, and may buy it just for that.

benbristow 7y ago
Fair enough, but why would you be happy to not have the latest tech?
- yumraj 7y ago
  two reasons: 1) don't care about speeds faster than what LTE provides 2) I think there are still some unanswered questions about 5Gs impact on health, and don't want the radio in my phone. I can wait, due to 1 above.