5G is weird, since it's being sold as a big deal, when it really isn't. It has some nice improvements, with the big ones being that it makes more efficient use

5G is weird, since it's being sold as a big deal, when it really isn't. It has some nice improvements, with the big ones being that it makes more efficient use of the spectrum. I'm not really an expert on this, so if someone is, feel free to correct me, but my understanding is that some of the big changes with 5G NR are making better use of good signals via higher-order modulation, allowing less resources to be allocated to low-bandwidth users, and decreasing latency by allowing communications to start more often. That doesn't really help any one phone, at least ones that are working well now. What it does do is to make the network better, in the same way going from 3G to LTE did.