Motorola’s 5G Moto Mod speed test was massively misleading

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Motorola wants you to know that it demoed a real Verizon 5G connection on a real 5G phone in Maui that over 330 journalists and analysts were able to see in person. It wants you to know that phone is capable of incredible 5Gbps speeds — enough to apparently download an entire season of your favorite TV show in mere minutes.

So when journalists tried out Motorola’s speed test demo, they naturally did the math. By measuring how long it supposedly took Motorola’s 5G Moto Mod to download a 1GB file in a special Motorola demo app, PCMag and PC World each independently reported speeds of 470Mbps.

But those numbers just aren’t accurate. As The Verge reported yesterday — and confirmed with Motorola — the 5G connection in Maui is running at a...

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