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Behr said:
This is the info I needed.

Although I'm confused about the storage and ram. I want to download some movies and songs. I have 32 and 4 and it ain't enough. I thought going to 128 would be fine and staying at 4.
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It's a128gb phone and you can add up to 1 TB of a SD micro card. That is 1000GB of storage the ram from 4 to 6 you can't see much of a difference. If it was 4 to 8 or 4 to 12 then you would but the ram it's self upgrades over time from DDR3 to DDR5 and so on that's a technology upgrade. The processor is what you will notice and how fast the screen reacts to your finger and eyes. If you are happy with what you have then keep it. I had to upgrade. @Behr
 
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Damn 449 for a brand new 5G that is a flagship. This site is legit I have bought 3 good ones I messed up going to Amazon. And I know someone that has got 5 and we are happy. And hell they have new ones for 449.
 
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Behr said:
This is the info I needed.

Although I'm confused about the storage and ram. I want to download some movies and songs. I have 32 and 4 and it ain't enough. I thought going to 128 would be fine and staying at 4.
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I pay no more a month and now I get a 100mbps more download speed just cause my phone can read the towers. My other phone was going bad because AT&T is turning off there 3g network in February to upgrade 5G more because of that it makes since to get 5G because it will only get better. I am designing fiber to cell towers to run 5G but you do you. But you asked and what I know go 5g your phone will last longer.
 
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Behr said:
This is the info I needed.

Although I'm confused about the storage and ram. I want to download some movies and songs. I have 32 and 4 and it ain't enough. I thought going to 128 would be fine and staying at 4.
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Realize that apps also take up storage. If you’re wanting to put big movies (more than a few minutes), it’s better to put that in cloud storage than clogging up your storage (storage and Ram are different). Ram is just things being temporarily put in memory for quick access like different apps open at the same time. 4 or 6 gb of RAM (random access memory) is fine, not a huge difference IMO. Id look at 256gb of storage. Regardless of your decision in storage, know that long movies absolutely clog up your storage.
 
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Deep-Fried Candy Corn @95 Vol Alum
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rocytop2624 said:
Behr these are brand new in a un opened box. On the site.

Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G (Verizon)
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Talking to a good friend of mine this morning and phones came up. He told me a website he bought his phone from and said I should it check out before I went any further. Was the same one you gave me. I just ordered one.

The warranty and return policy sold me on it. I also paid for with PayPal so I got the guarantee with them too. Lady said I wouldn't return it but if I did she guaranteed same day credit. I told her if I returned it, it would be up 114's butt.

I'm 2 and 0 with advice I've gotten from you people, I'm going for 3-0.
 
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volfanbill said:
@Behr

Real, true 5G is still a massive work in progress. The amount of antennae need for 5G across decent distances is insane (it’s an extremely high frequency, resulting in massively smaller wavelengths, so the signal doesn’t carry as far). It’s not even always accurate when your phone says it’s picking up 5G. It’s on your carrier’s 5G network, but you’re probably still on 4G.
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Not quite right. 5G works at the same frequencies as 4G (same antennas and radios even) but also has the ability to be used the super high frequencies which have the bandwidth to provide the much higher speeds. At the lower (4G) frequencies it's not much faster than 4G is but it is still true 5G. You're right that the higher frequencies require a lot more infrastructure than what the lower frequencies do. All the carriers have a mix of 4G and 5G at the lower frequencies. The good thing is that 4G and 5G actually play together (unlike 3G and 4G) so you're likely using both networks simultaneously to provide better performance even when the phone says 5G. (Except ATT's 5Ge network, that really is just 4G, no actual 5G involved). Source: me, network engineer for 8 years at one of the cellular companies.

TL/DR - 5G not a must have yet.
 
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Behr said:
Talking to a good friend of mine this morning and phones came up. He told me a website he bought his phone from and said I should it check out before I went any further. Was the same one you gave me. I just ordered one.

The warranty and return policy sold me on it. I also paid for with PayPal so I got the guarantee with them too. Lady said I wouldn't return it but if I did she guaranteed same day credit. I told her if I returned it, it would be up 114's butt.

I'm 2 and 0 with advice I've gotten from you people, I'm going for 3-0.
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Well I hope you like it.
Here is a otterbox to protect it.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08QD189SS?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_image
 
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3rdDegreeVol said:
Not quite right. 5G works at the same frequencies as 4G (same antennas and radios even) but also has the ability to be used the super high frequencies which have the bandwidth to provide the much higher speeds. At the lower (4G) frequencies it's not much faster than 4G is but it is still true 5G. You're right that the higher frequencies require a lot more infrastructure than what the lower frequencies do. All the carriers have a mix of 4G and 5G at the lower frequencies. The good thing is that 4G and 5G actually play together (unlike 3G and 4G) so you're likely using both networks simultaneously to provide better performance even when the phone says 5G. (Except ATT's 5Ge network, that really is just 4G, no actual 5G involved). Source: me, network engineer for 8 years at one of the cellular companies.

TL/DR - 5G not a must have yet.
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It's getting ready to take off. And my speedtest went up with 5g I am at 150mb now but it will only get faster as 5g is capable to do a gig. Even talking on the phone is clearer it's the first time I have ever noticed that in a phone.
 
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3rdDegreeVol said:
I've seen 400+mbps 4G although in some areas you can do over 800mbps. For 5G I've seen 3.5+gbps
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4G is fast, but 5G is a lot faster. While 4G wireless networks typically give you 30 Mbps speeds on mobile devices, 5G speeds can hit anywhere from 60 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps depending on where you are. ... 5G—the “fifth generation” of wireless technology—promises even better performance for cellular customers. This was from Jul 1, 2021
 
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VolNExile said:
That’s cardiovascular (heart+blood vessel) and cerebrovascular (brain+blood vessel) disease, starving cells downstream of adequate oxygen. Alzheimer’s is a condition of the nerve fibers in the brain, where they degenerate due to protein plaques (not blood-vessel plaques) and tau tangles. Sort of protein structures gone berserk. (Waving hands in the air a bit here.)

My mom has dementia due to hypertensive cerebrovascular disease, hardening of the arteries in her brain due to untreated hypertension, which has damaged and killed brain cells without ever having had strokes. (Push back and do more digging if your doc ever diagnoses “white-coat hypertension”. It might be the real thing. 😡) Her memory is shot, especially short-term, but her judgment is sound, and her emotions. Because of her memory deficits, she can no longer learn new things, such as self-care routines, but she’s mentally and emotionally pretty stable. She doesn’t have AD. Or if she does, it is a late-comer, with vascular dementia still dominant.

My MIL has AD. She periodically thinks my husband (her son) is her late husband. She used to have terrifying rages, until she just sort of zoned out. She once washed my cell phone when I left it on the kitchen counter while she was doing dishes, apparently thinking it was some sort of plate. We found it in the dish strainer. Lol. But no hardening of the arteries that we’re aware of. View attachment 396068
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I had never heard of Dementia or Alzheimers until the late 70s. My grand parents always seemed to relate hardening of the arteries to every ailment. Lol
 
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3rdDegreeVol said:
Not quite right. 5G works at the same frequencies as 4G (same antennas and radios even) but also has the ability to be used the super high frequencies which have the bandwidth to provide the much higher speeds. At the lower (4G) frequencies it's not much faster than 4G is but it is still true 5G. You're right that the higher frequencies require a lot more infrastructure than what the lower frequencies do. All the carriers have a mix of 4G and 5G at the lower frequencies. The good thing is that 4G and 5G actually play together (unlike 3G and 4G) so you're likely using both networks simultaneously to provide better performance even when the phone says 5G. (Except ATT's 5Ge network, that really is just 4G, no actual 5G involved). Source: me, network engineer for 8 years at one of the cellular companies.

TL/DR - 5G not a must have yet.
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I don’t quite agree. The lower frequencies are called 5G, but they’re being used to make you believe you’re getting the ultra high millimeter wave frequencies that give the much faster speeds, and they just aren’t doing it. They can officially call it 5G if they want, they did similar things when 4G came out, but it’s just fancy word play at this point. Once it takes off, yea, 5G will be a big deal.
 
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I hope this phone is as advertised. I've always been absolute on not buying "not brand new" when it comes to this kinda stuff, but I've heard more positive than negative. I was gonna pay $50 less for a brand new phone that wasn't exactly what I wanted.

Live and learn, but I actually feel good about it and already got the "shipped" email and tracking number. We'll see.

I Thank errybody for the info!
 
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I don't keep with a lot of the gadgets and the technology, but I try to stay relatively up to date.
I can tell a difference when I'm on a 4g and a 5g network on this phone, in terms of the speed of loading web pages.
I don't use my phone much away from home, though, and there I just connect to the wifi.
When there are wifi problems at home, the 5g is pretty fast.
 
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Behr said:
Talking to a good friend of mine this morning and phones came up. He told me a website he bought his phone from and said I should it check out before I went any further. Was the same one you gave me. I just ordered one.

The warranty and return policy sold me on it. I also paid for with PayPal so I got the guarantee with them too. Lady said I wouldn't return it but if I did she guaranteed same day credit. I told her if I returned it, it would be up 114's butt.

I'm 2 and 0 with advice I've gotten from you people, I'm going for 3-0.
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Did she agree to pick up the extra shipping?
 
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3rdDegreeVol said:
Not quite right. 5G works at the same frequencies as 4G (same antennas and radios even) but also has the ability to be used the super high frequencies which have the bandwidth to provide the much higher speeds. At the lower (4G) frequencies it's not much faster than 4G is but it is still true 5G. You're right that the higher frequencies require a lot more infrastructure than what the lower frequencies do. All the carriers have a mix of 4G and 5G at the lower frequencies. The good thing is that 4G and 5G actually play together (unlike 3G and 4G) so you're likely using both networks simultaneously to provide better performance even when the phone says 5G. (Except ATT's 5Ge network, that really is just 4G, no actual 5G involved). Source: me, network engineer for 8 years at one of the cellular companies.

TL/DR - 5G not a must have yet.
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Maybe JG was playing with 3G instead of 4G?
 
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