hello whistle out family today i am continuing my 5g series that i have been doing for the past
couple of weeks all about do you need 5g and which 5g phones should you get last week i talked about
which budget 5g phones are best and today i'm just going over the best
overall 5g phones and how to future proof your 5g devices so they're useful in the next year
first got a new set it's all good to go i moved and now i have everything
almost set up there's gonna be a few of the things i add back there but these lights
i'm really stoked about these if you can't tell this is the whistle out logo so it's a heart you
know same similar colors not the actual logo but it's close enough so if you've been with
the channel for a while we have come a long way and i am super stoked about that but back to 5g
so today's video is all about which 5g phones should you get and which ones will be good a
year from now because that's the key to this video is that once there's a new band of 5g opening up
you're not going to be able to use your phone you have now likely in the future so which phones did
you get so you are 5g future proof to help decide which phone you should get i'm going to quickly go
over the bands of 5g and help you understand what those are so you know which phone is going to be
best for you so 5g bands there are low mid and high band bands right now and in a while there
will be a c band so there will be four now let's go over the first three low band is really similar
to 4g lte speeds not much different sometimes slower than 4g lte so not the best 5g but it's
technically 5g it's just not great the next one is mid band 5g and mid band is pretty impressive it's
about five to six times faster than peak 4g lte speed so we're looking at 600 700 maybe even 800
mbps download speeds now if we look at high band that's where we get into the one gig two gig
three gig potentially download speeds and for the most part equal upload speeds as well so
all around 5g the at least the top two tiers are fairly impressive and this is where c
band comes into the mix i mentioned that briefly now c band is another band that
the fcc the federal communication commission is opening up to cellular networks that used
to belong to satellite tv people but they aren't using it so the fcc held an auction
at the end of 2020 that garnered 80 billion dollars worth of money from verizon t-mobile
18p and a few other smaller contenders verizon spent around 50 billion att spent around
20 billion i think and then the rest was split up between t-mobile and a bunch of other smaller guys
so what is c-band and why were carriers willing to spend billions of dollars on it a stupid amount of
money well it's basically mid-band 5g and a lot of it so the carriers were vying to get more of
this mid-band 5g because it travels farther than the high band and it's a lot stronger than the low
band so it's the best of both worlds now the great thing about c-band is that it will change the 5g
game here in america and get us on par with other countries who are ahead of the game
like in korea and japan for instance but the bad side here is that because it's a new band not many
phones have built-in access in the software of devices to access that band so even if you have
a new 5g phone it might not be capable to mix with c-band and c-bands going live at the end of
2021 and going to spread wide and far in 2022 so what phones can you get now and what phones do we
know in the future will have c-band access because the last thing you want is to buy a cool 5g phone
but that is useless in a year so i'm going to help you avoid that situation right now by offering up
the handful of phones that we know will be 5g c-band capable and this here is
really easy right now there are only two series of phones that are 5g c band capable that is the new
iphone 12 lineup and the galaxy s 21 lineup those are the only phones right now that can access
every single part of 5g including c-band when it goes live now there are two more phones that will
be able to have c-band access and those are the lg wing and the google pixel 5. now it's to be
determined that since lg has shut down their phone sector if the lg wing will still be available for
that software upgrade um but for now it's on the list of phones that will be cbn capable so those
are the four phones you should get now verizon says by the end of the year they will have 20
c-band capable phones and i believe that because they always have a wide variety of phones for
verizon specific customers that they launch and have prepared and ready for new technology like
this so potentially keep your eye on verizon i'm sure verizon will have a bunch more c-band phones
available and then we also can look forward to new phone releases within the next year including the
apple 13 lineup potentially the apple se3 or the apple s e plus release that's coming out
relatively soon and then we can look forward to the next galaxy release but right now there aren't
a lot of phones to choose from so if you're really wanting to upgrade right now and you really want
5g then just remember there's only really three to four phones right now that you could can get
that will be future proof that's the lg wing the google pixel 5 the iphone 12 lineup and
the galaxy s 21 lineup the great thing about these phones is that they are brand spanking new so
they're going to last you a while and because they're the newest they are the best of what
there is on the market right now the bad side is that it's just going to be a little expensive
but if you don't want to pay that much you're not worried about c-van check out my
budget 5g phone video right up here that will help you decide which budget 5g phone is best for you
now this might change in the next few months and definitely by the end of the year there
will be more options so be sure to subscribe to this channel so you don't miss all the updates i
have on which 5g phones are coming out and which ones you should look forward to and potentially
which ones you should get thanks for watching this video i'm sheri riggs with whistle out tv