David Kent

Because your phone would rather give you slower 5G than cook itself.  Modern smartphones constantly monitor internal temperature.  If things get too warm, the phone can deliberately reduce performance, slow charging and even lower the power used…

VoNR stands for Voice over New Radio.  It’s basically the 5G version of VoLTE.  VoLTE moved normal phone calls onto 4G. VoNR moves them onto a 5G Standalone network, so the phone can handle…

You are happily browsing on 5G, somebody rings you, and the little 5G icon at the top of the screen suddenly becomes 4G or LTE.  Then the call ends and 5G pops back up.  It…

Because 5G data and 5G voice are not necessarily the same service.  Your phone can sit on a 5G network all afternoon, download apps at high speed and still make every…

If the battery gets low and your shiny 5G icon suddenly turns into 4G, the network hasn’t necessarily gone wrong.  Your phone may be doing it deliberately.  5G can use more power in certain situations,…

First, an important correction:  Dual SIM does not automatically disable 5G on modern phones.  Current Pixel phones from the Pixel 4a (5G) onwards can connect to 5G while operating in…

Because a proper speed test has to push your connection hard enough to find out how fast it really is.  That means downloading and uploading actual data.  And the faster your 5G…

You can sit in exactly the same chair, run two 5G speed tests five minutes apart and get results that look like they came from different networks.  One says 240Mbps.  The next says 83Mbps. …

You open your banking app at home and everything works.  Then you step outside, switch to 4G or 5G, tap the same app and suddenly it decides you’re offline.  Meanwhile, Chrome loads websites perfectly…

Run a 5G speed test and the result can look slightly ridiculous.  Download: 180Mbps. Upload: 18Mbps.  Your first thought might be that something is wrong with the network. Usually, there isn’t. …

Seeing Mobile Network State: Disconnected buried inside your Android SIM status page can look fairly alarming.  It sounds like your phone has completely fallen off the network.  Sometimes it has.  But sometimes absolutely…

A split port happens when your mobile number transfer only completes properly in some parts of the network.  Your new SIM may show the correct number. Outgoing calls might work. Mobile data…