

To use the full WiFi bandwidth you’d probably also need to connect your phones antennae to the access points antennae via coax.
Nobody’s ever going to get 46Gb/s with 7 just like nobody actually gets 1gigabit with AC. Real speeds tend to be vastly lower than rated, and splitting the airwaves with other stations is reason enough to minimize transmit time in any case. A busy area is going to benefit from phones having Wi-Fi 7 even if those phones can’t process a 46gbps tcp stream.
It really annoys me when people look at max rates of networking technologies as though they’re minimums for that technology to be useful. You don’t have to use all 10gigabits of 10gbps for the upgrade from gigabit to be worthwhile, same with all others.
IDGAF about the pixel phones but i see this kind of argument all over the place and it’s infuriating. ISPs don’t have to offer 46gbps for wifi6 to be your bottleneck. Imagine having 2gbps internet, talking about how you need to upgrade away from gigabit, and someone goes “well you don’t need 10gigabit(or 2.5 or 5), your ISP isn’t giving you 10gbps.” Sure it isn’t, but it’s still offering more than my current network can enable
Not to mention, wifi never, ever, ever hits advertised speeds. I have wifi 6 and it is a bottleneck on my 2gbps internet with a single device. Imagine having multiple devices!
And even if your internet wasn’t bottlenecked by your wifi, the internet isn’t the only thing your phone can communicate with on a network.