No 5G phone from HTC yet, but this smart 5G Hub is no pushover
Technically, that makes this a crazy powerful tablet, but HTC primarily wants you to use its 5G Hub in conjunction with a second, larger screen. Ideally, a TV capable of playing 4K content, which the hub should effortlessly stream either natively with the help of pre-loaded Android 9.0 Pie software or alongside a Windows PC.
Of course, the HTC 5G Hub can come in handy on the go and in the office in addition to satisfying your home entertainment needs. You can take your 5G support with you wherever... it's covered, as well as "mobilize your office network" by connecting up to 20 devices at once with built-in encryption tools or a corporate VPN. Further down the line, you'll even be able to use this thing to stream virtual reality content from the cloud to a Vive headset without needing wires or a PC, although there's no word on exactly when that might happen.
Then again, there's still a lot of general uncertainty surrounding 5G network rollouts and real-world capabilities. That's probably the main reason why HTC isn't ready to share a price tag yet, also being vague about the "all-day" endurance of the pretty massive 7,660 mAh battery powering its 5G Hub.
What we do know is carriers "across the globe" will start selling this sometime during the second quarter, including Sprint, Australia's Telstra, EE and Three UK, Germany's Deutsche Telekom, and Switzerland's Sunrise.
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