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The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo...::AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile’s race to deploy 5G has failed to realize its flashiest outcomes while saddling carriers with debt and removing a competitor from the market.

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[-] thoughts3rased@sopuli.xyz 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The battery is the most expensive part of the phone

Lol no it's not? This is easy to disprove just by looking at the price of replacement parts. You can't tell me that the battery is more expensive than the processor of the phone.

[-] daed@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Raw materials-wise maybe? Check your last sentence as well, don't think you communicated what you meant to

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 5 points 11 months ago

They're definitely correct that the battery is not the most expensive part of the phone, but their last sentence is backward.

[-] thoughts3rased@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Woops, haven't had my third coffee of the day.

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