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© 2019 AFPWorld's first 5G phone released in South Korea
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Garthgoyle
Unless 5G can speed up the duration of the movies, his time management will be exactly the same.
Ganbare Japan!
Apple iPhone XS is better.
Ah_so
Yeah, because 4G beats 5G.
At least you are not implausibly claiming that a Japanese phone is better. Unable to do that, you are knocking a Korean phone you have never even tried.
happyhere
@ganbare
Apple is looking like a dinosaur. 5G is still 2 years away and folding screens still on the drawing board.
Still Japanese people like to think they are not buying a Chinese or Korean product. Check to see where it is assembled and where the parts come from.
FizzBit
Not just a few people are saying 5G is much more dangerous. 4 foot cell towers on every lamp post. As If we didn’t have enough natural and unnatural radiation bombarding us.
Oh my gawd!
All this reminded me of Jim Morrison live in Boston recorded in 1970
“more more more more more”
Thanks for the morning laugh.
YuriOtani
I refuse to buy anything from Samsung Electronics.
Kenji Fujimori
Ready to stalk your data, if none of you are aware the security risks of 5G, see some youtube clips on it
Ganbare Japan!
But many components of iPhone are made in USA and in Japan. Top quality. And all iPhones are designed in California. Not China or Korea.
YuriOtani
Suppose I should buy a Sony phone next as Apple products are too expensive.
ShavedNuts
Yipee. And somewhere in the world is the world's first 10k tv. Not much to get excited about when there is zero programming to make it useful at all. Same with a 5g phone.
Alex80
Chinese smartphones are the BEST.
BackpackingNepal
Don't understand why other Japanese mobile brands just wants to remain within the border. Why not go international, it will end the saga of Apple and Samsung.
Modern Japanese films still use flip phones which seem out of this world.
natsu823
Buy another Galaxy any day
gogogo
I refuse to buy anything from Apple.
Ah_so
I asked this question many years ago. It signalled the start of Japan's decline for me. Despite having phones for sale domestically that were a good two years ahead of what was for sale in the West, Japanese firms were unwilling or unable to penetrate Western markets, which were dominated by Nokia etc.
Then Apple cleared up with the ipod - Japan was slow to react in an area it should have been all over.
Then came smartphones. Again, Japan's answer was too little too late. Only Sony even tried and made no impact.
1glenn
Whether it be phone technology, or cooperation in space, no one seems to trust the Chinese.
Samit Basu
@YuriOtani
There may not be a Sony Mobile company left for you to buy your phone from, since Sony is hacking the Sony Mobile away in desperate attempt to reduce losses.
Sony Mobile's annual sale is down to 6.8 million units in 2018, from which Sony Mobile is supposed to turn a profit from. This is simply impossible.
https://www.techradar.com/news/sony-mobile-set-to-halve-workforce-in-profitability-drive
@BackpackingNepal
There is no Japanese mobile brand left.
Sharp is just a brand of Foxconn now.
Panasonic only sells ODM phones from China under its own brand.
Ditto with VAIO(Sony spin-off). Heck one time there was a scandal because a VAIO phone was identical to a Panasonic phone except for the logo, because both were buying from same Chinese ODM vendor.
Sony is the last Japanese smartphone brand, but Sony keeps chopping away Sony Mobile's staff to stop the endless cash bleeding.At the MWC 2019, it was very clear why Sony Mobile was dying. While Samsung and Huawei were showing off their foldable phones, Sony was showing off its Xperia XZ4 featuring thick bezels top and bottom, while even the Chinese have transitioned to full screen phones with notches while Samsung was showing off exotic hole in screen phones.
In other word, Sony was 3 years behind the Chinese in adopting the latest market design trend.
Alex80
I will never buy Korean or American smartphones. They are garbage. Chinese smartphones all the way!
Alex80
China already won anyway.
Akie
It is extremely stupid for Japan to reject China's 5G technology. China will dominate 6G, no doubt about it. When comes to 7G, Japan has no clue at all.
juminRhee
"...download movies in a second."
I can see all the pirates salivating. New entrepeneural jobs for the unemployed.
lostrune2
Even South Korean/Chinese/Japanese smartphones are based on Android (the closest smartphone to pure Android is the Pixel) - smartphones are only as useful as the software and apps that interface it
Ah_so
Top of the range Apple and Samsung are still the best - I think you say more about yourself than the handset market.
geronimo2006
Don't really see the point unless you have unlimited data.
bobfor2
Its not uncommon for Apple not to be first out of the box with some tech, but most of the time they get it right. All companies make mistakes but I honestly think being first is over rated.
I personally am happy with 4G and I am sure they will rank the price up for any 5G so I am happy Apple takes its time.
Having said that, of course with Jobs gone .... Apple really misses him, what company wouldn't.
bobfor2
Trust has to be earned, and they are famous for stealing / copying.
If you think about copying products .... China is the first country that comes to mind