5G finally launches in the UK – but is it really worth it?

We spent two weeks with a 5G phone to find out if it really lives up to the hype

The future of mobile phones is finally here. You can go out and buy a 5G phone, and if you happen to be in one of the six cities across the UK in which EE's 5G network is up and running, you can get the blistering mobile broadband speeds we've been promised will revolutionise our mobile lives, again. But should you?

I've spent the past two weeks equipped with the OnePlus 7 Pro 5G on first-out-of-the-gate EE's 5G network. I streamed 2K HDR movies, downloaded whole albums in seconds and generally used it like I would on my extremely fast 350Mbps home wifi - data caps be damned.