JANUARY 2020 PCWorld 7News
TECH NEWS AND TRENDS THAT WILL
AFFECT YOU TODAY AND BEYOND.The 5G phones you really want
are coming in early 2020
Don’t buy a 5G phone yet, unless you want to suffer as an early adopter. BY MARK HACHMANL
ost amid the 5G phone hype, analysts
say, is a little-known fact: None of the
high-priced 5G phones currently
being sold in carrier stores can
access both 5G mmWave and sub-6GHz
networks. It’s one of the main reasons why
you shouldn’t jump on the 5G hype train too
early (go.pcworld.com/5ghp). But that willchange during the first quarter of 2020,
Qualcomm senior executives said during the
company’s Snapdragon Technology Summit
in Maui, Hawaii.
As it stands now, 5G is basically an
either-or proposition. The OnePlus 7T Pro 5G
McLaren Edition that T-Mobile announced as
it “turned on” its 5G network on December 6IMAGE: ONEPLUS