20 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 64
REVIEW
Downloading films on Netflix
is about twice as fast as on
4G in most scenariosI didn’t notice the extra bump in speed when
streaming video on YouTube in most situations. I found
it is most noticeably faster than 4G when downloading
files for offline use, such as albums on Spotify, which
now take under ten seconds to download.
Downloading films on Netflix is about twice as fast
as on 4G in most scenarios, with a 500MB film taking
all of a minute most times I tested it. That’s great for
last-minute film downloads at the departure gate,
but when it comes to scrolling through social media,
watching the occasional video and WhatsApping, 5G
doesn’t raise the experience.
Streaming video doesn’t use more data than on 4G
as it is streaming at the same rate. I found I used 0.2GB
data for 30 minutes on Netflix – very usual for 4G, too.
The reason the data plans have so much included
is because you’re likely to never want to use Wi-Fi as