From PC Mag: AT&T's 5G is finally going public—just not the best kind.
The carrier;s first consumer 5G phone, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G, is available for pre-order starting today for $1,299.99. But you shouldn't buy it, because although AT&T just announced a much broader rollout of 5G, the Note 10+ can't deliver the super-speedy 5G performance you've been hearing about.
The Note 10+ 5G supports AT&T's low-band 5G network, which will be launching in Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Providence, Rochester, and San Diego in the next few weeks, and in Birmingham, Boston, Bridgeport, Buffalo, Las Vegas, Louisville, Milwaukee, New York, San Francisco, and San Jose by Febuary 2020.
It doesn't support AT&T's millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G network, which is currently available only to business customers in parts of 21 cities. I've tested it and found it to be fast but with very limited coverage.
Now, AT&T phones are now going to show three different kinds of 5G icons: the "5G E" icon, which is just 4G; a "5G" icon on the new Galaxy Note 10+ 5G, which represents low-band 5G coverage, and a "5G+" icon on other 5G phones, for the fast mmWave system.
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