Flashback: a look back at the first 5G smartphone

26 September 2021
The story of the first 5G smartphone to hit stores and a brief look at the phones came close to stealing that title.

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  • 26 Sep 2021

[deleted post]mi mix was 4g not 5g

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    • 26 Sep 2021

    Claude Stanchev, 26 Sep 2021The last great Samsung! Headphone jack, dual speakers, big ... moresamsung phones `s10 and below impressed me
    but today down the trash can with downgrades
    miss the old days

      The world is still waiting for 5G.......

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        • teu
        • 26 Sep 2021

        I was really excited when these gaming phones arrived. But they failed to shine mainly because of buggy and delayed software upgrades. It really ruined the whole experience. We were better off with playing games on a regular smartphone than a gaming phone. And there were compromises as well like in camera department.

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          • KZK
          • 26 Sep 2021

          YUKI93, 26 Sep 2021Motorola's 5G Moto Mods is an absolutely brilliant ide... moreOh yes, so true! I can definitely speak from experience with my Moto 360 Camera Moto Mods. It's so fuss-free that I ended up selling my Ricoh Theta 360 Bluetooth camera.

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            • 26 Sep 2021

            YUKI93, 26 Sep 2021Motorola's 5G Moto Mods is an absolutely brilliant ide... moreYou know that you can choose preferred network type in your phone?

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              • Anonymous
              • KZK
              • 26 Sep 2021

              My country doesn't even have a fully working 4G LTE network in the rural area to this day, so what does 5G will make an impact anyway? I'd just stay with 4G LTE until 5G become truly mainstream in the next five years time.

                Motorola's 5G Moto Mods is an absolutely brilliant idea. It means that I don't have to use 5G all the time, thus saving battery life. I definitely hope that Motorola Moto Mods would make a real comeback, it rendered Bluetooth completely archaic.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • U@6
                  • 26 Sep 2021

                  5g is lukewarm

                  quantum entangled communication is the only way

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                    • 3RM
                    • 26 Sep 2021

                    Amazing phone at the time, also the first Samsung device without a headphone jack. Hmm... they couldn't have an "ancient" port and the latest 5g technology on the same device...

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                      • Anonymous
                      • TLP
                      • 26 Sep 2021

                      Anonymous, 26 Sep 2021S10 Still looks very good. Like the back very much. because it's unique
                      every other Android phone camera island design has been done to death

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                        • XW2
                        • 26 Sep 2021

                        Claude Stanchev, 26 Sep 2021The last great Samsung! Headphone jack, dual speakers, big ... moreIndeed! Reading this article with my s10 5g crown silver!

                          notafanboy, 26 Sep 20212 years later and 5G is still a gimmick. Sad.Not at all. While not all 5G band technologies can deliver their theoretical maximum download and upload speeds consistently, they do still bring some pretty nice overall speed boost compared to standard 4G only.
                          My country is not the best when it comes to 5G technology (far from that, to be precise), but using it gives me around 10 to 20, sometimes even twice as much speed when compared to regular 4G. Not that I really need such high speeds anyway, but it also means that I can still get some tolerable speeds at times when the network's strength is poor.

                          Also, with the help of the implementation of 5G, data promos have gotten better for the same price, at least in my country anyway. So 5G still brought many benefits overall, even if the implementation is not yet at its peak.

                            Samsung leading the charge. Best company in mobile. Always on the cutting edge. I do find 5G and 120 Hz as nothing useful. I don't notice improvement having them. Just features to throw around so we can keep upgrading.

                              Dometalican, 26 Sep 2021Ah, the LG V50...if Sprint wasn't going to charge for ... moreAny flagship released in the last 3 years is still a pretty good workhorse.

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                                • J8U
                                • 26 Sep 2021

                                And today almost every phone has 5G but it's not supported in my country so.. 💁🏻‍♂️

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                                  • 6v0
                                  • 26 Sep 2021

                                  Mike Oxlong, 26 Sep 2021That Z3 5G module is humongous! So does Mike OckLol

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                                    • 8xr
                                    • 26 Sep 2021

                                    The worst, in countries where there is not even 4G good. i. tolerated she asks you about 5G phones, that's how these elites think of people's minds

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                                      • 26 Sep 2021

                                      BigDisplay, 26 Sep 2021Not to forgetting Huawei Mate 20x 5g... Awesome phone and i... morePoor Huawei * America is just as strong! and Huawei almost forgotten

                                        Not to forgetting Huawei Mate 20x 5g... Awesome phone and it still is kicking ashhh.

                                        "(Shenzhen, 26th July 2019) Huawei released the world’s first dual-mode 5G smartphone – the HUAWEI Mate 20 X (5G). The device was certified by the Global Certification Forum (GCF) in July, making it the first 5G smartphone in the market to pass all GCF 5G tests."
                                        And then it all started, about try to kill Huawei... Poor Americans.