Is 5G a “battery vampire,” as some have claimed, or is it actually more power efficient than LTE?
It’s a bit of a mixed bag, according to Signals Research Group. The testing company recently took to the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota with a 5G-equipped Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone to test the device’s battery performance on Verizon’s 5G millimeter wave and LTE network.
SRG said that it measured real-time battery current while transmitting various bit rates: the maximum possible, 30 Mbps and 5 Mbps.
