44 PCWorld OCTOBER 2019REVIEWS
VIDEO: SAMSUNG
GALAXY NOTE 10+ 5G
Watch now at go.pcworld.com/5gsIMAGE: SAMSUNG5G on the Samsung Galaxy Note
10+ delivers dizzying highs and
frustrating lows
Here’s how Samsung’s 5G phone performs on Verizon’s network. BY MICHAEL SIMONI
can sum up my first experience in 5G like
this: 1.21 gigabits. That’s the first speed I
hit when I started walking around
Providence, Rhode Island, on a
Wednesday with the Samsung Galaxy Note
10+ 5G (go.pcworld.com/105g).
That wasn’t the top speed I hit either. Later
in the day, I touched 1.48Gbps and1.63Gbps. Nor did it represent an average
speed, which was closer to 450Mbps. But my
first impression of real-world 5G Ultra
Wideband—made possible during a Verizon