{"id":7742,"date":"2021-06-30T09:12:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:56:53","slug":"5g-devices-are-cheaper-but-lack-the-wanted-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/5g-devices-are-cheaper-but-lack-the-wanted-features\/","title":{"rendered":"5G Devices Are Cheaper, But Lack The Wanted Features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>5G mobile devices are sold globally at lower prices as many consumers continue to wait for the faster service and other upgrades associated with 5G usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Strategy Analytics, 5G phones accounted for more than a fifth of global shipments last year, and 5G is expected to account for 45% of phone sales by 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While 4G ushered in the smartphone age with apps such as Uber, Airbnb, Instagram and TikTok, the main benefit of 5G for consumers using smartphones is streaming games and higher-quality videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, there are no features that specifically require 5G or show how fast it is.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/5g-phones-are-more-affordable-than-ever-but-the-killer-app-is-still-missing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> on CNET.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5G mobile devices are sold at lower prices as many consumers continue to wait for the faster service and other upgrades associated with 5G usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-7742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobility","tag-5g"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7774,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}