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Apple Won’t Release 5G iPhone Until 2020

Next year is when the first phones capable of connecting to the next generation of cellular, called 5G, come to market. Apple will be the exception. Apple won’t release an iPhone capable of connecting to 5G networks until at least 2020, Bloomberg reports . The iPhone giant is usually late to adopting new technologies such as new wireless standards, so this news isn’t surprising. What’s more...

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