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00:00Hey what's up guys, MKBHD here, and let's talk about 5G again.
00:11We got some updates.
00:12So you might remember that 5G explain video we did a couple of months ago that really
00:16blew up.
00:17We had a ton of fun making it, but naturally, as you might imagine, there were a bunch of
00:21follow-up questions about rollout.
00:23You see, how can you cover an entire city, or an entire country for that matter, a whole
00:28planet in 5G if a millimeter wave tower can only cover half a city block?
00:34Well the answer is there's going to be different ways to build out 5G.
00:39Some may describe it as a race to 5G.
00:42I would agree with Dieter from The Verge.
00:44It's not really a race because there isn't really a finish line, you just kind of keep
00:48getting better over time.
00:49But also, then there's this headline about T-Mobile getting a head start, launching 5G
00:54across the U.S. all at once, but nobody can use it until December 6th.
00:59Well, that's not completely true.
01:02Not nobody.
01:03So I was out in L.A. a couple days ago specifically to test T-Mobile's new 600 MHz 5G network.
01:10So here are my thoughts.
01:11So I could have gone to any number of places, but the weather is way nicer right now in
01:15L.A. for shooting outdoors.
01:17So shout out to T-Mobile for allowing me to do some exclusive testing for you guys.
01:21And thanks to OnePlus for setting up this video and providing the compatible 5G phone.
01:26And then shout out to John from TLD for helping me do a little testing and to shoot this video.
01:31Okay, so there are going to be two phones that launch on T-Mobile to take advantage
01:35of this 5G network.
01:36OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren edition and Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G.
01:43Of course, I'm going to choose the slightly faster of the two phones to stick with the
01:46theme of this video.
01:47Plus, it means there's a good excuse to involve another McLaren supercar.
01:51So this is Testing 5G Part 2.
01:59Okay, so I want you to check out this clip cut out from a T-Mobile 5G hype video.
02:21Okay, so that was incredibly corny, but the point that they're trying to make is they're
02:33basically lighting up 5G for 200 million people all at once on day one.
02:39So there are no like special 5G cities that are popping up.
02:43There are no city blocks that are doing it.
02:45And the reason they're able to show this map and make that claim is low band 5G.
02:51So you might remember when I was talking about Verizon 5G in that first video, we had to
02:55go all the way to a specific 5G city and then find a tower for that 5G area and then test
03:015G on like that one square block where it was working.
03:05And there have even been stories about NFL games where they're trying to light up 5G
03:08in the stadium for fans that day.
03:10And they couldn't even cover the whole stadium with 5G.
03:14That is millimeter wave.
03:16And basically what we found through our testing, and I'll link that video below the like button
03:19in case you haven't seen it already, but basically what we found is those waves do not travel
03:24very well and they don't go through objects at all.
03:27So you get incredible speeds, but not very far away from the tower.
03:31But as many of you rightly pointed out, not all 5G is millimeter wave.
03:36So the T-Mobile plan, as they've explained it, is they want to start with low band 5G,
03:40which is anything under that one gigahertz frequency, and then use their merger with
03:44Sprint to fill in more areas with mid band 5G.
03:48And then at the end, fill in the gaps with millimeter wave.
03:50So they're starting at the bottom and working their way up instead of what Verizon's done,
03:54which is start with millimeter wave.
03:56So here we are in sunny LA, casually driving around a 2020 McLaren GT with a McLaren edition
04:03OnePlus 7T Pro 5G.
04:06And you just have 5G everywhere.
04:09So what do you get from low band 5G?
04:11Well, the main advantage is low band can cover miles from a single cell tower.
04:16I know this because we drove around miles from this cell tower to try to test this.
04:22And sure enough, it stayed locked to 5G the entire time.
04:25We drove 5, 10, 15 minutes away, still 5G, behind buildings, under trees.
04:32It bounced effortlessly between a very small number of towers as we drove.
04:36So what's the trade-off?
04:37Well, low and mid bands won't get you those sexy 1,000 megabits per second download speeds
04:42like you might have if you're standing right next to a millimeter wave tower.
04:45But instead, you'll see somewhere between 20 to 50% faster speeds than good 4G.
04:52And most of my tests were getting me anywhere between 40 to 140 megabits per second download
04:57speeds, and then somewhere from like 30 to 60 megabit up speeds, which for me is right
05:04in line with the best 4G speeds I've ever gotten once or twice in my life, but now
05:09it's everywhere.
05:10So, if I'm going to get 5G, 65, that would be incredible for me for LTE, so that's good.
05:2325, 26, 27, 28 up.
05:26Oh, up, okay.
05:2733 up.
05:2936 up.
05:3136.
05:32That's really good.
05:33Like I mentioned earlier, I'm using the McLaren Edition OnePlus 7T Pro 5G, and it looks exactly
05:39like the McLaren Edition OnePlus 7T Pro that I have, just with new 5G radios inside.
05:45All the same specs, high refresh rate, Snapdragon 855+, 12 gigs of RAM, and the 4,085 mAh battery.
05:52They're all still the same here, so I left the fancy Alcantara case on the 5G one just
05:57so I wouldn't get them mixed up.
05:59And I found the battery seemed to diminish about the same rate as 4G.
06:04But I still got to take advantage of those noticeably better speeds when doing things
06:06like watching videos or downloading a really large, high-quality Spotify playlist.
06:11It's not the snap of a finger that you might want it to be with millimeter wave, but it's
06:15still much faster than 4G.
06:17And anytime I started to get comfortable with these speeds, like they weren't that great,
06:20I just did a side-by-side test with my phone, which is on AT&T 4G, and the difference was
06:25definitely real.
06:26So that is the main advantage to starting a 5G rollout with the lower and mid bands.
06:33You don't get the crazy headline-making speeds that might be better for PR, but on the other
06:38hand you do get the advantage more than half a block away from the tower.
06:42And so unlike having just millimeter wave, you will have everyone who buys a 5G device
06:47affected pretty much on day one, instead of having to be in a certain pocket of a certain
06:51town.
06:52Yeah.
06:53Faster.
06:54Speaking of faster, the car we're driving, definitely faster than most cars.
07:02Matter of fact, I think McLaren knew exactly what they were doing when they decided to
07:05lend me a red and black car.
07:07So you know what, while I'm not going to review this car, I figure I might as well walk you
07:12through some of the quirks and features that I've noticed.
07:17This is the 2020 McLaren GT.
07:21So we've messed with other McLaren cars before in the past.
07:25This is their newest, most creature comfort full version of a GT car.
07:30It stands for Grand Tour, which means there's a lot of things that make it easier to drive
07:33on the daily, but there's still a lot of weird, interesting things about this car.
07:37So today I'm going to be taking a look at some of its quirks and features.
07:41So if you start anywhere on a supercar, you have to start with where you get in.
07:45And a lot of prototype cars recently, you sort of see that there's no door handle and
07:48it's perfectly smooth.
07:49And that is the case with the GT, but there is a way to get in.
07:52You can see on the back of the door, there's a little cutout and that's actually the door
07:57handle.
07:58So to get in, you push in and it'll roll the frameless window down a bit and unlock it.
08:02And that's how you can swing the door open and get inside your McLaren.
08:06And then you'll also notice for a daily driver focused car with nice leather seats and tons
08:11of extra space, there's still not a ton of interior space.
08:15In fact, there is no glove box in this car.
08:17So as a passenger, your only options for storage are this small smartphone size net
08:22in the footwell near your feet, or these little cubbies on the inside of each door that fold
08:29down so you can fit anything in them.
08:31That's I guess a water bottle size or less.
08:33But speaking of storage space, one place you will find a lot more of it is in the front
08:38trunk of the McLaren GT.
08:41And there are three ways to open the front trunk of this car.
08:43You can press the front trunk button on the key or on the left side of the steering wheel,
08:48you can find a button with the same image.
08:50Press that and it'll open the front trunk from the inside of the car.
08:53Or if you're outside the car, you can get out and there's actually another identical
08:57button on the door, only visible when the door is open.
09:00So there's no way you forget you have a front trunk.
09:03And the front itself, as you can see when it's open, is actually quite big, bigger in
09:08fact than the Tesla Model S.
09:10And I fit a suitcase full of video gear in there just fine.
09:13Not that I use video gear.
09:15You can even fit more if you wanted to.
09:17This car also has something extremely rare for a supercar with a 200 plus mile an hour
09:22top speed.
09:24And that's a power rear liftgate and a ton of extra trunk storage where you could theoretically
09:29store an entire bag of 18 golf clubs.
09:32No kidding.
09:33My favorite gizmo in the McLaren GT has to be the sunroof, the electrochromatic adjustment.
09:39So right below the glass roof here, there are some buttons, basically a touchscreen
09:43that lets you actively adjust the level of tint on the sunroof.
09:48So if the sun is really beating down during the peak of the day, you can add tint.
09:52Or if you want to see more, you can turn it down.
09:55Super quick and super impressive.
09:57So now of course, I should drive it.
10:04Sorry, I got off track there.
10:07This is an autofocus, but I'll leave the real Doug DeMuro video on the McLaren GT that
10:12he already did below.
10:13Check that out.
10:14But anyway, there you have it.
10:16That is low and mid band 5G in a nutshell.
10:20So really, it turns out one of the most interesting parts about 5G is the rollout.
10:24And you know, there's no right or wrong answer, but which rollout strategy is better?
10:28The Verizon way right now, which is doing millimeter wave in these hyper local, tiny
10:33areas and getting those sexy headline making speeds and then doing mid band later?
10:38Or the T-Mobile way, which is flipping the switch on low and mid band first and covering
10:42as many people as possible, getting everyone those bumps and speeds and seeing the nice
10:46advantage, but not making the headlines and filling in the gaps with millimeter wave later.
10:50Let me know what you think.
10:51I'm definitely curious.
10:52Also, McLaren and OnePlus are having a contest that I'll link the details to below, where
10:57you can win the 5G phone and a sort of McLaren driving experience, kind of similar to what
11:03I just had, which was a lot of fun.
11:05So if you want to check that out, that's below as well.
11:07Either way, thank you for watching and I'll catch you guys in the next one.
11:11Peace.