Apple is now offering a new budget iPhone, inside which is really good. I am not talking about Apple’s AI features; The iPhone 16E and its bind suc prove that Apple can provide more features to the old phone if he wanted to do so. I am talking about something most people do not care – modem.
The 16E is the first iPhone that uses Apple’s new in-house C1 5G modem, which the company developed after a very expensive R&D and bought Intel’s 5G business. This is a modem that does not match very well with Qualcomm, at least on paper.
This is a great deal as you can think because Apple’s C1 has no support for millimeter-wave 5G frequencies. This means two things-it will never get a hyper-fast 5G speed that we were promised and you must have seen yourself, and in many places the network coverage will be sub-bucket or follow for LTE (4G). .
This is because most of the technology to give strength to a millimeter-wave modem is from Qualcomm. The company invented or re -invented it and marketed it in such a way that it has become almost mandatory in North America. A lot of network technology is Qualcomm and I think Apple has taken a good part for its in-house offer, but it has either refused to pay for better millimeter-wave support or Qualcomm at a cost It is not ready to license it. ,
I have no special connection for Apple products, but I do not like what I am looking here. On the one hand, you may think that it proves that Apple does not need Qualcomm, so other manufacturers may not need the company. This is true if you are fine with a sub-costume product with missing features found in multiple devices on all price limits.
What I am seeing is that Apple, a company, which is almost with enough resources to do, that it imagines it cannot break the Grip Qualcomm in North America.
We have no details about the procedure or licensing agreements (and perhaps it will never be) so we do not know why Apple decided to remove the millimeter-wave 5G, but I am sure that this is a decision that is a decision that Was not done lightly. Apple does not want its “budget” phone to be worse than $ 300 OnePlus Nord, when it comes to network performance, but it will be in places like New York or Chicago.
Apple says that its lineup is planned to expand the use of C1 into other models. I am betting that before this happens, there will be a way to integrate millimeter-wave technology.
I am sure Apple and Qualcomm have a long-standing relationship and it almost makes its way into the decision making process. Qualcomm has contestants such as Samsung and its exinos 5G modem and more for a cellular modem than millimeter-wave support. It is also not denied that Qualcomm improves. Excessive.
Qualcomm makes a large line of products, it is not denied. To see if a company has such a strong grip that it can stop the contestants or charge excessive fees for patented IP. If Intel cannot do this, and Apple cannot do this, can anyone be?
