Samsung s latest phones feature all kinds of fancy technologies and functions OLED screens, Snapdragon 888 CPUs, at least 8 GB of RAM and plenty of other acronyms that have been exhaustively outlined by gadget-focused publications like The Verge and Cnet. However, the phones are also significant for the 5G industry for these five reasons:
1. They re $200 cheaper than previous versions.
The initial batch of 5G phones from Samsung and others were searingly expensive. Indeed, most 5G smartphones during 2019 cost more than $1,000. Samsung itself pushed that ceiling up to $2,000 with its first Galaxy Fold.
During 2020, though, 5G phone prices began to fall back down to Earth. For example, the Google Pixel 4A 5G costs just $500.