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  • spaceship9876 - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    so will it be able to make phone calls via 5g or will it have to resort to volte via 4g and older 2g/3g standards?
  • Tyy - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    You can only use 5g if both your phone and your carrier are equipped with 5g radio
  • leexgx - Thursday, March 28, 2019 - link

    i cant imagine why it wouldn't work, if you have 4g calling/VoLTE enabled phone it should work fine on 5G as its still LTE just on super low latency and speeds

    in my case it be EE UK only where 4g calling/VoLTE works on samsung phones as they dont burn into the rom the IMS settings for other 3 networks (3, o2, vodafone) normally

    unless its a branded phone from them 3 companies, no Virtual provides have basic 4G calling at all

    witch may start to become a problem as the big 4 cut back on 3G and convert it into 4G you have data but no call support like when your on 3uk in some places (as they still refuse to use 4G calling on anything but 4g800 witch is more or less useless for data, my pixel 2 none XL lacks the IMS settings so i am happy i cant use 4g800 any more), i had seen this issue on EE uk on my cubot 2018 power phone but lucky i was able to just add the APN called ims and has enabled 4G calling so i get VoLTE showing permanently now
  • rUmX - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Maybe the latter. 5G is still in its infancy.
  • sonny73n - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    $1200? You know I can make 10 trips to the massage parlor with this amount right. :)

    Chinese phones, here I come.
  • PeachNCream - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Happy endings and a phone instead of just a phone? Yeah, I think you're onto something good here.
  • quorm - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Personally, I would never buy one, but $1200 for a phone with a cutting edge modem, however useless it is now, kind of makes more sense than $1000 for the same phone without.

    By the way, what's the status of vulkan 1.1 support on current/previous generation phones s9/s10? All I can find are a bunch of announcements from last year saying it will be out with Android 9, which has been pushed out. Any chance of a benchmark?
  • GlossGhost - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Are you not concerned of the possibility that better modems could come out by the time this tech becomes truly mainstream?
  • jordanclock - Monday, March 25, 2019 - link

    I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about quorm's post. He said this seems like a reasonable price for a production phone with cutting edge tech. Of course there will be better modems. But he also didn't say he was buying one, just that a $1200 price makes sense for this device but $1000 for a 4G phone is high.

    Early adopters do NOT care that better implementations will come along. They know this. They likely are the same people that can afford to buy the better versions when they come along.
  • Haawser - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    $800 if you break the screen ? Hmm, maybe I'll just buy something a little less ridiculous. Like, say, a Unicorn.
  • XelaChang - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Is AnandTech's review for S10 coming soon?
  • Andrei Frumusanu - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Yes
  • XelaChang - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Thanks.
  • Ahadjisavvas - Saturday, March 23, 2019 - link

    Is the npu inside the exynos 9820 anything special compared to the competition?
  • jordanclock - Monday, March 25, 2019 - link

    I'm sure that'll be covered in the review.
  • PeachNCream - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Sheesh, f*ck off Samsung! I'll take the compound interest from investing $1160 of the $1200 while spending the remaining $40 on a cheaper phone that does basically the same crap a bit more slowly. Doing that every two years over the next 20 should earn me an extra $10K in returns at a measly 5% annual interest rate.
  • shabby - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Enjoy your flip phone.
  • PeachNCream - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Mine was $30 and it's a crappy little Android on prepaid service, but it does hit the 80% of something a lot more expensive. They're not for sale at this point as I got mine two years ago, but it was an Alcatel Pixi Unite.
  • wrkingclass_hero - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    Where are you getting a 5% annual interest for a $1160 deposit?
  • PeachNCream - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    My bank accepts a minimum $500 to buy into a simple index fund (IRAs for the same amount as well) so, from my bank, I guess. Not that I started with such a small amount, but it is possible. You can also buy into that little fish REIT thing through something called fundrise for a minimum of $500 and its performance has been in the +10% range since inception which is admittedly a very short time period (since 2012 IIRC). Bottom line is that if you're chucking $1200 at a phone, you're probably throwing money out the door elsewhere as well and can trim the fat to easily pony up enough cash to start something somewhere.
  • voicequal - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    I'm sure you realize it makes perfect sense to launch 5G on top of a $1000 flagship rather than your $40 burner phone.
  • bug77 - Thursday, March 28, 2019 - link

    "Launch" is just a matter of speaking. There's no infrastructure for 5G and even if there was, 5G doesn't pass through many things. Phones come with 4(!) antennas because you can block the signal even with your hand. So between spotty coverage and battery drain, enjoy your new 5G purchase ;)
    If anything, it is little more than a tech demo at this point. Even if future modems become incredibly power efficient, the reception problem is not fixable.
  • stephenbrooks - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    I'd like to see a 5G vs. 4G benchmark with retail hardware and real phone networks to see what difference it really makes (and what you'd want to use it for).
  • Xex360 - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    While it's obviously very expensive at least it offers new things, huge screen, 5G, 256gb of storage, some phones offer way less and cost way more.
  • drexnx - Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - link

    wonder if this will be as janky as the HTC Thunderbolt when 4G LTE originally launched. I paid the early adopter price with that one, yikes
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