From PC Mag: The Samsung Galaxy S20+ and S20 Ultra are the most flexible, powerful 5G phones in the US. On Sprint's network at the moment, their 5G performance is on par with Sprint's other 5G phones. But the S20+ and Ultra offer additional potential for the future once Sprint's merger with T-Mobile closes ... whenever that is.
I tested Sprint's 5G with the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra in Manhattan on March 6. In my tests, 5G pretty much doubled 4G performance on Sprint. That's good. It's better than AT&T and T-Mobile's currently near-meaningless low-band 5G, and it has more coverage than the other carriers' extremely fast high-band 5G.
This isn't the gigabit speeds we've been promised from millimeter-wave 5G, but Sprint's average speeds compare favorably to the 5G speeds we're seeing on UK networks, which use similar frequencies, according to Ookla Speedtest Intelligence.
The mid-band approach is more honest, too. When Sprint says "5G," it means 5G. Because its Band 41 5G is on the same spectrum as its Band 41 LTE, and because Sprint doesn't have any combinations where LTE would be faster than 5G, I didn't find situations (unlike with AT&T and T-Mobile) where the phone said it was on 5G but transferred data entirely on 4G.
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