We break down what 5G will really be like (The 3:59, Ep. 475)

[MUSIC] Welcome to 3:59, I'm Roger Chang. I'm Joan E. Solsman. We kicked off a new package on 5G today, and our leadoff story takes a look at what 5G will actually feel like when it launches. And this is my story, I took care to basically try to poke holes with all the hype around 5G. Basically, don't expect it to change your life right away. Coverage is going to be spotty or non-existent. Your phones might run out of batteries really fast, or run out of power really fast. There might be problems with connectivity, getting onto 5G or getting kicked back down to 4G. Basically all the problems we saw when we transitioned to LTE, we'll probably see with 5G, so. Well this sounds amazing. [LAUGH] Right? It's gonna change your life. Eventually! [LAUGH] So yeah, look. The excitement over 5G is, I think, justified in terms of what it can do for us over the longterm. When this thing actually gets built out, and is a bit more mature. But this story is really a reminder that, with all the hype early on, that things aren't gonna go as smoothly as everyone says it will. What's the expectation for when we'll Reach that point of. That maturity. That pseudo maturity, it's like pre-maturity, but not clunky, it doesn't actually work. Okay I woudl say 2020 is probably the better timeframe. So you're a plus. T-mobile has said that they're promsing a nationwide network By 2020 nationwide ish by 2020, and that'll definitely get encompassed a little bit faster if they combine with Sprint. AT&T and Verizon will probably be not that far behind, and then most of the Asian countries will have start building out, or will build out most of their networks at that point. So I think that's important, we are like you can start to actually get excited about [UNKNOWN] Okay. Our next app [UNKNOWN] had a nice breakdown on how Google uses computational photography to boost its ability of the single camera on the pixel three For instance it uses AI to make better portrait photos. It takes a bunch of HDR shots and combines them for better low light photos under night shot. And it's got something called Super High-Res this is basically making up for a lack of an optical zoom lens. It uses data to kinda fill in the blanks. So cool stuff, but is this enough Joan to convince you That only one camera is all you need on a phone? You know how I like multiples of cameras on phones. That Samsung Four Camera, four shooter phone. In theory, but I think that sounds great, I mean that sounds really cool. The ability to do all of these fancy, now is the computational photography what also enables the stuff like The wide selfie mode, and, like, the thing that'll fix when you are blinking in the middle of your photo. Now the, so the wide selfie mode, they actually will have a second camera on the front that is a wide selfie cam. So that's not, that's not competent. You can't really Use data for that. Yeah Before, in terms of fixing things, fixing blemishes, yeah, that's what. That probably would have google's biochips all about. And lastly, you were covering that fixed earnings last night.>> Yeah. And there was some concern that there was gonna be a blood pour. Well, yeah, last quarter with earnings, it's always about expectations. Yeah. Anything, the only thing that people ever care about on Netflix is how many subscribers did you add? Yep. Three months ago, Netflix said we added subscribers, just not as many as we said we would, and everyone freaked out. Right. So, last night people were really worried that maybe this was Netflix standing on the brink of a downturn. Mm-hm. Especially cuz other companies and technology haven'tbeen doing so great. But Netflix said you know how we totally have this many subscribers, we actually like Did a lot better than that so everyone freaked out but in a positive, yeah in a good way Well I mean it's interesting they're seeing that kind of success given like the shear number of streaming services that are launching now,like Yeah>> Netflix is just really like core that no one really gives up right? I mean people always say if you're going to have a streaming service, the The mindset that consumers have is like you're gonna have two, maybe three and one of them is gonna be Netflix. there you go, for a full coverage [INAUDIBLE] on CNet I'm Roger Chang, I'm Jonny Solceman, Thanks for listening. [MUSIC] [BLANK_AUDIO]