Here's why Google's Pixel 4 doesn't have 5G
Google's new Pixel 4 smartphone doesn't have 5G because the technology "isn't quite ready for consumers," according to Brian Rakowski, Google's VP of product management.
"It will get there, but now is not the right time to buy a 5G phone," Rakowski said at Google's Tuesday event. "Both from a deployment perspective—the coverage is not broadly available in enough places for enough users to benefit from it—[and] from a hardware and phone perspective—it's still power hungry [and] immature.
"There's work to be done there," he said. "We're tracking it closely and we'll bring a phone out when we feel like it's a good time for users, but now's not the time." Read more...
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