On its website, the carrier says users can “toggle from 5G/LTE to 2G” to save battery life . T-Mobile’s battery-saving tip comes shortly after Verizon implied that turning off 5G helps prevent a phone’s battery from “draining faster than normal.”
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Durga Malladi, head of 5G at Qualcomm, which makes modems for Apple and other phone makers, explained that when you use an application on 5G, data can flow at a faster rate than what you’d see with a 4G connection. That’s a good thing, but it can drain your phone’s battery more quickly .
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In ideal circumstances, 5G can actually reduce battery usage . That’s because 5G is faster than 4G — it takes less power to transmit the same amount of data because it takes less time.2 Mar 2021
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