5G is a battery sucker

[Klaus]

I have no idea whether 5G requires more battery, but I'm worried that they didn't specify the distance and kind of connection to the next base station. Maybe the 5G base station was just at a bigger distance. Then this would be a rather meaningless comparison.

[Doctor Phibes]

I don't really understand the need for 5G on a phone. You can't surf properly on a tiny little screen, so why bother? If you need to look up stuff on Google, or text people, or whatnot, 4G should be fine.

I know, I'm old.

[Klaus]

@Doctor-Phibes said in 5G is a battery sucker:

I don't really understand the need for 5G on a phone.

4K VR Pr0n.

More seriously, as I said before, I believe the point of 5G isn't its theoretical max speed. It's the average speed when 200 cell phones are using the same base station.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in 5G is a battery sucker:

I don't really understand the need for 5G on a phone. You can't surf properly on a tiny little screen, so why bother? If you need to look up stuff on Google, or text people, or whatnot, 4G should be fine.

I know, I'm old.

My thoughts exactly. It's unusual, these days, to not be near a WiFi hotspot. Areas that don't have WiFi are probably not going to be 5G enabled either.

4G is more than adequate unless you're downloading German pr()n Klaus.

[jon-nyc]

@Klaus said in 5G is a battery sucker:

4K VR Pr0n.
More seriously,...

You say that as if something could be more serious than 4K VR Pron.

[89th]

@George-K said in 5G is a battery sucker:

The iPhone 12 Pro fared a bit better, lasting 9 hours and 6 minutes minutes over T-Mobile's 5G network. That runtime jumped to 11:24 over 4G. The iPhone 11 Pro lasted 10:24 over 4G.
The Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus lasted 10:31 over 5G, which is nearly 1.5 hours longer than the iPhone 12 Pro.

Ugh only 9 hours instead of 10? And the Android did 10.5? Jeez what kind of caveman world are we living in?

[Mik]

@Doctor-Phibes said in 5G is a battery sucker:

I don't really understand the need for 5G on a phone. You can't surf properly on a tiny little screen, so why bother? If you need to look up stuff on Google, or text people, or whatnot, 4G should be fine.

I know, I'm old.

Im with you though. I really haven't looked at it but I'm not sure I understand why I need 5G. My suspicion is I don't.

[Axtremus]

@89th said in 5G is a battery sucker:

Ugh only 9 hours instead of 10? And the Android did 10.5? Jeez what kind of caveman world are we living in?

So we have come to this.

OK, I am disappointed that the test report does not say whether they test against mmWave 5G or just the lower frequency 5G. I assume they did not test against mmWave as I expect that to drain the battery even faster.

[Mik]

OK, here's why. I dont need it so much but a lot of things that are in the pipeline do.

https://www.5gworldpro.com/5g-knowledge/172-what-is-5g-and-why-do-we-need.html

[xenon]

@Mik said in 5G is a battery sucker:

OK, here's why. I dont need it so much but a lot of things that are in the pipeline do.

https://www.5gworldpro.com/5g-knowledge/172-what-is-5g-and-why-do-we-need.html

Latency is always the go-to metric for why 5G will be important - but remember, wired Fiber will always have less latency. I think the world of "mission-critical latency-driven devices" + "must be wireless" is not that big.