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[Q]Improving AT&T data speed

Is there anything like this for our captivate?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087729
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11318194&postcount=7
They seemed interesting and here in dallas im getting anywhere from .10 Mbps to 2.1 Mbps...
anyone might have a better setting for these?

That is just enabling HSUPA, which many ROMs do.
If you want it to work for data and not degrade call quality considerably, you must either be on a I9000 ROM or using CM7/MIUI

Oh... so since im using phoenix rom I shouldnt worry about it? =/
Bummer thought I could get faster speed than 1.5 MBPS in Dallas...
Thank you.

sixk said:
Oh... so since im using phoenix rom I shouldnt worry about it? =/
Bummer thought I could get faster speed than 1.5 MBPS in Dallas...
Thank you.
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Upon further review... it looks like the OP of that thread got some positive results tweaking those settings in build.prop
However others got mixed results.
I tested it out quickly and got a slight improvement in download speed but slight decrease in upload speed. I will try it again in a different area this evening, though, because I am testing it in a building with a metal roof and spotty coverage...

I've played around with this the last few months. I've had mixed results. Sometimes it seemed like it got me an increase sometimes not so much. I'm in a rural area and as such I have never seen 5Mbps down. I have seen as high as 4.30 Mbps once in a blue moon mostly after midnight. Its certainly a plausible idea but I cannot say with definite certainty that this will give a speed increase.

I tried it out too but it seems like it is depended on the time and traffic of the server...
Ive seen from .5 to 2.9 on my cappy...
edit: any other results or test to see if there might be a better setting?
Also just updated mine to mosaic.

trickery
I tried putting them in my Nostalgia 1.4 build.prop. See if it makes difference.
sixk said:
Is there anything like this for our captivate?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087729
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11318194&postcount=7
They seemed interesting and here in dallas im getting anywhere from .10 Mbps to 2.1 Mbps...
anyone might have a better setting for these?
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I'm in frisco and just hit 3 mbs. Get that in both Denton and here. Have seen as much as 4.5 in both.

I'm on the border of Dallas/Richardson and I get terrible speeds on my Cap. At home I get around 200KBPS if I am lucky. On Monday I was in Frisco with a friend who has an HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon, his 3G speeds were 7000KBPS down while his 4G was 1.7MBPS down. In Frisco I did receive 400KBPS down - wonderful right?
I just tested again at work here in Richardson and out of three test I had network failures. The one test that worked was 67kbps down. This is using HSDPA and a signal strength of -75 dBm 19 asu.
I'm using the newest version of Cognition on my phone. Calls have good clarity and when I am using wifi I get 1.5MBPS down. I don't know why my data service is so bad.
Update: So after typing this post and tested again and got 643kbps down 76 up. I haven't moved from my desk.

That's wild. Metropcs speeds is what you got.
Worst area for me is Rockwall. But at&t is kinda non existent out there.

i'm also on andromeda but got same results on other roms as well.

This is my first smartphone on AT&T and because of where I work I was allowed to get a unlimited data package.
I might try another kernel and modem. Its pretty frustrating that my speeds are so slow.

I'm in Fort Worth and I usually average 4mb down 1.2mb up. I'm also running Phoenix Unleashed 8 with JK4

What is your settings at?
if you did the mod.

I am running stock 2.2 and don't use 3g a whole lot (usually attached to Wifi one way or another), but reading this post I figured I would try running a few tests. With 3 bars of signal strength I got a download speed varying between .86 mbps and 2.07 mbps down over six tests. Upload was never much more than about .40 mbps though. At home my Wifi runs around 9 mbps to just over about 17 mbps for download on the Captivate. The is in north GA, not near a major metropolis or anything.

Im curious about rpicaso's setting for this. Im gettin about the same speed as you bytheme.... i want to be faster!!! haha

Wish it worked.

Rockwall has pretty bad 3G coverage. I have better 2G coverage than 3G at home, so I usually stick to 2G+WiFi. 3G seemed to draining my battery.
I usually pickup towers from across the lake in Rowlett.

gibson3659 said:
Rockwall has pretty bad 3G coverage. I have better 2G coverage than 3G at home, so I usually stick to 2G+WiFi. 3G seemed to draining my battery.
I usually pickup towers from across the lake in Rowlett.
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Maybe they'll build it up when bush gets finished. I don't get how they have no 3g in Rockwall. I'm in Krum (little po dunk town nw of Denton) right now and getting 3 mbs. Rockwall is a good size city with money.

boborone said:
Maybe they'll build it up when bush gets finished. I don't get how they have no 3g in Rockwall. I'm in Krum (little po dunk town nw of Denton) right now and getting 3 mbs. Rockwall is a good size city with money.
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but there's a lot of money in Krum...
Not so much up in Gainesville, but we get a good 1.5-2 mbps

Uh...my Nexus 5 just connected to a CDMA network on its own

I went into the AT&T store to pull a microSIM from one of the phones there to compare signal between the Nexus 5, my Moto X, and an LG G2 that was next to the HTC One i pulled the sim out of...and when I removed the SIM and restarted my nexus 5 with no SIM inside, it connected to some random CDMA network. Voice calls ended in an "Error 16" being repeated by the operator, and data didn't work. My phone number was apparently 000-000-7714.
Weird. Oh, and for those wondering, the Nexus 5 showed much greater variation in signal strength when behind held, dropping 3-6dbm, while the LG G2 and Moto X barely showed any deviation at all. Peak signal on the Nexus 5 was -76dbm while laying flat, while the G2 and Moto X dropped down to 72, and this was pretty repeatable over the span of several minutes. Gonna test a friend's Nexus 5 in a day and see if mine is just defective.
EDIT: This was done running the .15 modem, not the most recent 4.4.1/4.4.2 derived one (which a lot of people complained lowered their signal strength).

That's Chicago IL Sprint system on the PCS band.

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Did you take pictures of the phone in that screen....so people would not just say it was screenshots from a different phone, or are you not aware of the ease of taking screenshots from within your phone? (hold volume down + power)
Just saying.
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m0biusace said:
Weird. Oh, and for those wondering, the Nexus 5 showed much greater variation in signal strength when behind held, dropping 3-6dbm, while the LG G2 and Moto X barely showed any deviation at all. Peak signal on the Nexus 5 was -76dbm while laying flat, while the G2 and Moto X dropped down to 72, and this was pretty repeatable over the span of several minutes. Gonna test a friend's Nexus 5 in a day and see if mine is just defective.
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Haven't experience the CDMA thing, but I noticed this (laying it down) with my signal the first week I had my phone. It's not a matter oh holding it by the antenna, either. Same power variation also except I don't get that good of a signal at home.
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I noticed once on my N4 in the info app *#*#INFO#*#* forcing cdma only did in fact allow me to connect and use data. One of the options is GSM/CDMA/LTE auto as well which in theory could connect on its own to cdma. Again, this was on the N4 which supposedly didn't even "do" cdma (or lte, officially). Despite it seeming counter intuitive it seems carriers actually have roaming agreements across different technologies (cdma/gsm). I'd be interested to see if you can get decent data in rural areas forcing cdma on tmo to get off edge (I swear the only reason I still have att is road trips for work. Edge is a complete joke).
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Network Speed Problems

Any time I run a speed test being either on WiFi or LTE the speed test will shoot to the speeds it should get for less than a second. Than the speed will drop and drop and drop. With my 2 year old htc one testing lte network I average between 40 to 50 mbps. The fastest the edge hit was 30 once averaging around 20. And my network speeds at home are 58/28. On ipad, iPhone, tablet, and htc one all achieve such no problem. The edge hasn't made it past 26 and averages 15-20. Anyone have any idea what could cause this? Could it be a problem with the phone itself? Thanks.

My experience after 2 days of owning the device

Just a quick introduction why I am writing this.
I've got technical background with a zillion years of experience in the electronics world ... and yes I'm a bit of a tech nerd. I will not go through the list of phones I owned but the last year it were a couple of Huawei's, Samsung S6, S7 etc etc... So I've never had a real 'China' phone and never had one with a MTK chipset and since I got a really nice deal on this one I bought the 6GB/64GB version for a steal.
I will not go through the unboxing since that is the ultimate crap youtube for me. Open the box, take the phone, cable and charger out and throw the box in the cabinet.
I've read people complain about wifi, camera etc and so I wanted to test this on a bit more than what you see is what you get level.
Wifi : absolutely no issue at all. Works perfectly on my Asus and Linksys 2.4GHz and 5GHz routers. To test this I installed wifi analyser and speed test from the play store. Range, I can see my neighbors wifi as good on the Alpha as on the S7 that is right next to it. Maybe slightly less on the Maze but just a bit.
Throughput. Well not as good as the S7 BUT more than good enough and explainable. The Maze is a single channel and it's max locking speed on 5GHz N is 135Mbps here which results in about 60Mbps download which is the max since it is half duplex. More than good enough for surfing, youtube and whatever.
10 meters further on and behind 1 thick wall I still have about the same speed which is excellent to me.
GPS : Since everyone was complaining about GPS with these MTK chipsets and since I am very much into GPS this was something I was looking out for to test. Test program used : Androits GPS and Google Maps. Cloudy and in the middle of my garden. Wow, didn't take long, probably 5 to 10 seconds and got a lock on 20 out of 20 visible sats. Ladies and gentlemen, there is more to it than a lock and the amount of sats. A couple of the sats over 40 dB snr and a lot of other in the 30 dB snr which is really good. But then the typical MTK which I saw in other reviews... accuracy 1m ... right. Open Google Maps and I am standing in my neighbors garden, mmm 1m accuracy my ... . After a while it slowly crawled into the correct spot and followed me around when I moved around. So, still a bit of a different behavior than the regular Qualcomm. Also now that I am typing this I didn't see any Beidou sats but I consider the amount of locked more than enough.
camera : As many have said not really top and especially comparing this to my S7 .. I will not do this. But good enough for posting on social media and a de-noise program on the pc also helped.
fingerprint : read some comments as 'the screen doesn't come on quickly, there is some delay' djeez, get a life guys. Comparing this to the S6 I had 10 months ago this one works extremely well and very fast.
There are some other things I am noticing and that I am currently checking. The charger that is supplied is a fast charge type, meaning in this case one that has 5V, 9V and 12V output. Well I haven't really drained it down completely yet but I checked the voltage and current. The voltage on my meter showed 5.35 V (which is actually a bit over the 5V default spec) and like 1.9 Amp current. So according to me at this moment the phone doesn't have any real fast charge (yet to test when fully empty, it was at 73%) but the redmi note 4 from my wife also doesn't have this and with a 4000mAh batt it means that it should become full in about 2 h to 2h30 since it should slow down charging above 80 or 90%. I find that more than fast enough since the old Huawei P8 that I tested only charged at 1 Amp max.
Now as some as you said the USB-C connector .... yes, seems a bit strange and 2 of my cables do not really fit well. They charge but the slightest movement and it is a no go, seems the connector is too deep into the device. Now I have a bunch of regular micro usb to c convertors and they are working perfectly. 4 for 1 euro or dollar and that issue is fixed for me.
The FM radio, well reception is not top notch and the stereo, or the lack of it is weird. Standing in the garden I had 1 station that I could hear stereo separation while I know the other ones are also very strong in signal strength and the stereo decoding did not happen. RDS works fine so it must be a threshold setting in the software why stereo did not work as it should. Also you can record FM which is really nice.
As far as the earpiece as I heard people complain about it. Installed my sim and dialed my voicemail. Yes, it should be a bit louder. It is a bit strange because the speaker is at the edge of the device but it sounded 'full' and nice. Maybe if we can root it we can alter the xml with the sound settings and bump it up a little.
4G seemed to work perfectly.
So far my second day of playing around a bit but I actually like it. Now need to get me a Xiaomi silicon case because this thing will eventually get to test Newtons law.

I have to agree with everything you have said, except for where you went indepth on sats as I haven't done that. I am loving this phone and currently there is only one other phone I would consider to replace it with, the elephone s8 in hopes the camera would be much much better.
When driving, google maps did disconnect on the odd occasion which I dont know is acceptable or not but as far as I can tell, it works better than my previous MTK phones which has been most of them.
I've just installed the Jan2018 update (4GB) but I missed the update reasons.
I've had my phone since mid October. :good: on the whole I am impressed. Average use is two days between charge.

codQuore said:
I have to agree with everything you have said, except for where you went indepth on sats as I haven't done that. I am loving this phone and currently there is only one other phone I would consider to replace it with, the elephone s8 in hopes the camera would be much much better.
When driving, google maps did disconnect on the odd occasion which I dont know is acceptable or not but as far as I can tell, it works better than my previous MTK phones which has been most of them.
I've just installed the Jan2018 update (4GB) but I missed the update reasons.
I've had my phone since mid October. :good: on the whole I am impressed. Average use is two days between charge.
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Well due to the festive days haven't really had time to play but tested some stuff again. Went outside with my S7 and the Alpha and checked on Google Maps. S7 said 3 meter accuracy and the Alpha 1 meter on Androits gps. When checking on the S7 I was spot on maps where I was standing, maybe 1 meter away but with the Alpha I was like 5 meters off.
I haven't had time to use it in the car. Since my new car has Android Auto I have not had a phone holder in it. (keeps my eyes on the road)
Maybe give 'GPS test' from Chartcross limited a try. Just go outside and start it up. Check the values above the bars. I consider above 35 (which should be dB snr, signal to noise ratio) to be good. That it lost lock might be another reason, does that happen on a regular basis or was that a 1 off?

lukesan said:
Well due to the festive days haven't really had time to play but tested some stuff again. Went outside with my S7 and the Alpha and checked on Google Maps. S7 said 3 meter accuracy and the Alpha 1 meter on Androits gps. When checking on the S7 I was spot on maps where I was standing, maybe 1 meter away but with the Alpha I was like 5 meters off.
I haven't had time to use it in the car. Since my new car has Android Auto I have not had a phone holder in it. (keeps my eyes on the road)
Maybe give 'GPS test' from Chartcross limited a try. Just go outside and start it up. Check the values above the bars. I consider above 35 (which should be dB snr, signal to noise ratio) to be good. That it lost lock might be another reason, does that happen on a regular basis or was that a 1 off?
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I'll give that app a test when I next go out, want to try it in the car and if/when I lose lock. It happened a few times in over 1,000 miles of driving but was quick to reconnect therefor emuch better than previous MTK phones.

5G speeds in the UK

Hi
I'm currently considering buying the Pixel 5, but was wondering if anyone had used the 5G service from EE in the Uk. What is the connection like and what speeds are you getting compared to 4g?
I live close to Liverpool and according to EE map I should get good coverage, although it doesn't mention indoors or outdoors reception.
Neil

Hi I'm with pixel 5 on EE , I'm in Edinburgh and the 5g speeds go up to the disappointing 70Mbps , but 4g is even more disappointing with 18Mbps , when the upload speeds are practically the same ???

No wwWave on the Pixel 5 outside of the states so we're never going to see eye watering speeds, you should see is some improvement over 4g (as demonstrated by Adrianfranc0) but more importantly 5g gives a huge increase in capacity. The speeds you do get will be constantly higher and not drop to a dribble when the cell fills up (which with 4g isn't that many connections). That said used to see nearly 250Mbit down 90Mbit up on 4g using my +1 7t, I'll be miffed if the Pixel 5 cannot manage anything like that.

Adrianfranc0 said:
Hi I'm with pixel 5 on EE , I'm in Edinburgh and the 5g speeds go up to the disappointing 70Mbps , but 4g is even more disappointing with 18Mbps , when the upload speeds are practically the same ???
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Hi
My 4g speeds at home are 75Mps so im hoping for quite good 5G speeds, only thing im worried about is the performance of the 5G on the pixel, still trying to decide on this one thought.

MrBelter said:
No wwWave on the Pixel 5 outside of the states so we're never going to see eye watering speeds, you should see is some improvement over 4g (as demonstrated by Adrianfranc0) but more importantly 5g gives a huge increase in capacity. The speeds you do get will be constantly higher and not drop to a dribble when the cell fills up (which with 4g isn't that many connections). That said used to see nearly 250Mbit down 90Mbit up on 4g using my +1 7t, I'll be miffed if the Pixel 5 cannot manage anything like that.
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I have a huawei P20 Pro and getting 75Mps on tests so I would like to see an improvement on this with the Pixel 5, havent quite decided whether to go for it yet but will post results here If I do

MrBelter said:
No wwWave on the Pixel 5 outside of the states so we're never going to see eye watering speeds, you should see is some improvement over 4g (as demonstrated by Adrianfranc0) but more importantly 5g gives a huge increase in capacity. The speeds you do get will be constantly higher and not drop to a dribble when the cell fills up (which with 4g isn't that many connections). That said used to see nearly 250Mbit down 90Mbit up on 4g using my +1 7t, I'll be miffed if the Pixel 5 cannot manage anything like that.
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Here's a good article on 5G even though he focuses on the iPhone 12. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/technology/personaltech/apple-iphone-12-review.html

Thanks for that interesting to see the variance in speeds,, and one thing that concerns me is if the pixel 5 modem in the 765g chipset is good enough to pick up weak signals in the area?

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No wwWave on the Pixel 5 outside of the states so we're never going to see eye watering speeds, you should see is some improvement over 4g (as demonstrated by Adrianfranc0) but more importantly 5g gives a huge increase in capacity. The speeds you do get will be constantly higher and not drop to a dribble when the cell fills up (which with 4g isn't that many connections). That said used to see nearly 250Mbit down 90Mbit up on 4g using my +1 7t, I'll be miffed if the Pixel 5 cannot manage anything like that.
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I'm still on my trusty Pixel 2 XL in the US but will almost surely get the Pixel 5 for the strong 5G and hopefully soon mmWave in my neighborhood. Since the UK doesn't have mmWave, why are you all buying the Pixel 5 instead of the less expensive 4A5G without mmWave?

JimSmith94 said:
I'm still on my trusty Pixel 2 XL in the US but will almost surely get the Pixel 5 for the strong 5G and hopefully soon mmWave in my neighborhood. Since the UK doesn't have mmWave, why are you all buying the Pixel 5 instead of the less expensive 4A5G without mmWave?
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The UK Pixel 5 doesn't have the mmWave compatibility, just the sub-6 5g option. That part was only included in US devices. That's why the Pixel 5 in the US costs $699 instead of $599. Also why it's cheaper to buy in other regions.
Here in the UK the Pixel 4a 5G costs £499 and the Pixel 5 costs £599. So the prices are much closer. With the added benefits, I think the 5 is the better option here.

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I'm still on my trusty Pixel 2 XL in the US but will almost surely get the Pixel 5 for the strong 5G and hopefully soon mmWave in my neighborhood. Since the UK doesn't have mmWave, why are you all buying the Pixel 5 instead of the less expensive 4A5G without mmWave?
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The 4A is too big otherwise I'd get it. Bigger battery on the 5 also but not by that much.

I tested Three's new 5G network in South London on my Pixel 5 and I was surprised to see peak speeds of around 300Mbps download which settled at an average of ~180Mbps. See enclosed Speedtest snapshot. Uploads speeds were disappointing at around 10-20Mbps. Still, much faster my Sky home broadband and much much faster than 4G. My usual 4G downloads at home averages 26-30Mbps and my Sky broadband is ~75Mbps.

As stated the difference in price is only 100 not 200 as in the states. The 5 is waterproof, which in the uk is kind of necessary, it's a better size, in my opinion, it has a bigger battery, better screen, more ram and the metal body would seem to be a stronger build. So that's why I would choose the 5 over the 4a 5g.

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I'm still on my trusty Pixel 2 XL in the US but will almost surely get the Pixel 5 for the strong 5G and hopefully soon mmWave in my neighborhood. Since the UK doesn't have mmWave, why are you all buying the Pixel 5 instead of the less expensive 4A5G without mmWave?
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As stated the difference in price is only 100 not 200 as in the states. The 5 is waterproof, which in the uk is kind of necessary, it's a better size, in my opinion, it has a bigger battery, better screen, more ram and the metal body would seem to be a stronger build. So that's why I would choose the 5 over the 4a 5g.

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I tested Three's new 5G network in South London on my Pixel 5 and I was surprised to see peak speeds of around 300Mbps download which settled at an average of ~180Mbps. See enclosed Speedtest snapshot. Uploads speeds were disappointing at around 10-20Mbps. Still, much faster my Sky home broadband and much much faster than 4G. My usual 4G downloads at home averages 26-30Mbps and my Sky broadband is ~75Mbps.
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We're these speeds done indoors or outside, from what I gather here it's pretty disappointing whilst your inside building

nchesh said:
We're these speeds done indoors or outside, from what I gather here it's pretty disappointing whilst your inside building
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These were done outside whilst in a car park. I haven't got 5G in my area just yet so can't test indoors.

sidhaarthm said:
These were done outside whilst in a car park. I haven't got 5G in my area just yet so can't test indoors.
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Thanks, hopefully I'll take the plunge and see what it's like near me and I'll post the results here

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The UK Pixel 5 doesn't have the mmWave compatibility, just the sub-6 5g option. That part was only included in US devices. That's why the Pixel 5 in the US costs $699 instead of $599. Also why it's cheaper to buy in other regions.
Here in the UK the Pixel 4a 5G costs £499 and the Pixel 5 costs £599. So the prices are much closer. With the added benefits, I think the 5 is the better option here.
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We're these speeds done indoors or outside, from what I gather here it's pretty disappointing whilst your inside building
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Thanks guys, I learned a lot from you guys today!

JimSmith94 said:
Thanks guys, I learned a lot from you guys today!
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I've ordered my pixel 5 so fingers crossed when I get it it delivers what it promises

JimSmith94 said:
I'm still on my trusty Pixel 2 XL in the US but will almost surely get the Pixel 5 for the strong 5G and hopefully soon mmWave in my neighborhood. Since the UK doesn't have mmWave, why are you all buying the Pixel 5 instead of the less expensive 4A5G without mmWave?
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Better build, i don't want a headphone jack, smaller size, bigger battery.
The Pixel 5 seems to hold up very well indeed on mmWave https://youtu.be/n6M3wOXt0YY

spikeydoo2006 said:
The UK Pixel 5 doesn't have the mmWave compatibility, just the sub-6 5g option. That part was only included in US devices. That's why the Pixel 5 in the US costs $699 instead of $599. Also why it's cheaper to buy in other regions.
Here in the UK the Pixel 4a 5G costs £499 and the Pixel 5 costs £599. So the prices are much closer. With the added benefits, I think the 5 is the better option here.
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I wonder if people in the US will be able buy the UK version to save a few bucks if they're not interested in mmWave?