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4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Logic Board Equipped With Qualcomm's MDM9625 LTE Modem

I wonder how targeted these so-called 'leaks' really are.

It could be Apple PR on fire misdirecting us.

Right?
 
Is this enough to know which LTE frequencies it will support?
The american iPhone 5S doesn't work with some countries' LTE frequency, while the iPad Air for example works with all. Wondering about the iPhone 6..
 
Kind of makes me wonder if Apple somehow knew it was all going to bust loose today and that's why they sent out the invites a week early.
 
Apple chooses the plenty fast LTE chip that be reliably produced in volume and uses less power preserving battery life.

Samsung chooses the slightly faster LTE chip which production volume is questionable (not a problem for Samsung) and hogs even more battery unnecessarily.

Sounds about right.

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The fastest LTE download speed I ever came across was 45 Mbps.

No idea where I would encounter a 150 Mbps signal. Right under a tower?
 
To bad i have AT&T. LTE speeds, give me a break, 4 bars and it maxes out at 4mbps. What good is a high speed LTE modem in a phone if the carrier makes it a brick.
 
How reliable is Feld & Volk? I mean, I understand they "built" an iPhone 6 - but where did they get the list of parts from, and who authenticated the parts list? Just because I can build something that looks like an iPhone 6 and make it run iOS doesn't make it the product in mass production. Just curious.
 
Padmini said:
Apple chooses the plenty fast LTE chip that be reliably produced in volume and uses less power preserving battery life.

Samsung chooses the slightly faster LTE chip which production volume is questionable (not a problem for Samsung) and hogs even more battery unnecessarily.

Sounds about right.

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The fastest LTE download speed I ever came across was 45 Mbps.

No idea where I would encounter a 150 Mbps signal. Right under a tower?
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Except those faster baseband modems use less power since they're smaller, and obviously faster.

As for the speeds, on Verizon or T-Mobile, with Cat 4 modem I've seen close to 140Mbps under decent RF conditions.

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This part is not important to me, the current iphone speed is fast enough. the more important part is the memory which is a dismal 1 GB :(
 
And once released the phone will be either the fastest or among the fastest phones on the market (and download speed will be fine). It is not how much RAM alone, but how much is available to Apps. My guess is that with its OS efficiencies, iPhone 1 GB likely provides about the same as others 2 GB.
 
Well that's good, but on most semi ****** north-american networks it won't make much of a difference. I'd be pretty freaking happy to only get 60 from time to time. Although once your get to a certain level way below that, it doesn't change much of anything except for large downloads, which you don't really do with your phone 99% of the time.
 
HangmanSwingset said:
I'm just hoping this supports 700-A. Doesn't look like it though :/



I nailed 97.7 Mbps down the other day, and that's the highest I've seen so far.
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now that is sick dude

here in Philly suburbs, LTE is overly congested. they just aren't investing in the network in the suburbs like they are in the cities it seems. i can pull in max 12 down these days when back when i had an iPad 3 i was getting 36 down. during peak hours, my iPhone 5 isn't getting more than 3 which is what my iPhone 4S used to get regularly back in 2011.

verizon has really dropped the ball and now to have them announce they are throttling LTE unlimited customers was the final straw with them. every time i call in to tell them their network is extremely slow they take a tech service ticket as if it's an acute problem with a specific cell site. when i inform them that it does not matter which cell site that basically anywhere outside of the city the speeds are horrible, they want me to list the specific zip codes. the last time i said "every damn zip code in montgomery and bucks county". they say their technician will investigate and i will be contacted in 3-5 business days. they never do.

i am switching to T-Mobile which has regular LTE speeds in the 40's and off-speak in the mid 50's. i'm going to use Verizon's iPhone 6 subsidy then switch to T-Mobile and have T-Mobile pay off the ETF. besides better speeds, it'll save me $20/mo.
 
currentinterest said:
And once released the phone will be either the fastest or among the fastest phones on the market (and download speed will be fine). It is not how much RAM alone, but how much is available to Apps. My guess is that with its OS efficiencies, iPhone 1 GB likely provides about the same as others 2 GB.
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unfortunately the OS takes close to 500mb from the 1gb available. It may very well be the fastest one yet. But you will still have the low mem app crashes and the safari problems. They will just restart that much faster lol.
 
Medic311 said:
yeah the leaks are really out of control

if they do present a watch though, they did a stellar job of preventing leaks
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I am wondering if it is intentional?! It started right after Steve Job died! I recall Apple dispatching SFPD to retrieve a lost copy of iPhone 4 or 4S.
 
MacKyle said:
I am wondering if it is intentional?! It started right after Steve Job died! I recall Apple dispatching SFPD to retrieve a lost copy of iPhone 4 or 4S.
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you raise a good point. after he died, these sneaky parts photos started to run rampant over there in china.

i wonder if Tim Cook has something to do with it...after all...he was the supply man
 
Now if only we can get close to that theoretical bottleneck lol.

It's always nice to hear the tech upgrades for data transfers on new idevices. Then it's always saddening to see that you can't usually hit 1/4 of that. LOL

Not complaining. LTE is already plenty fast. But I would love to see a speedtest hitting speeds over 100mbps. I think the best I have gotten was ~40 (plenty fast still) :cool:
 
Looks like this chip supports LTE band 1 which appears to be used by Softbank here in Japan. Does this mean I can buy a Verizon iPhone, use it here for a while before moving back to the states?
 
currentinterest said:
And once released the phone will be either the fastest or among the fastest phones on the market (and download speed will be fine). It is not how much RAM alone, but how much is available to Apps. My guess is that with its OS efficiencies, iPhone 1 GB likely provides about the same as others 2 GB.
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Galaxy S5 has around 1.2 GB free with nothing open which is probably 2x the iPhone 5s has. Now, I know iOS is much more optimized than Android, but for stuff like web browsing, those optimizations won't do much (Apple can't stop someone from creating a heavy page). The other thing is resolution. New iPhones, especially the 5,5" one, will have a substantially higher resolution display (1242×2208). The 4,7" iPhone will also have a higher resolution display than the iPhone 5s (1334 × 750 ). All this means is the new iPhones will be using more RAM for the same things compared to 5s.
 
MDM9x25 is old cellular technology that requires two transceiver chips (WTR1625L and WFR1620) for carrier aggregation. Very bad timing to use this solution now. Many markets will have Cat 6/7 (300 Mbps) well within a 2 year contract. That requires MDM9x35 which also includes the better single chip WTR3925 transceiver. Damn, Apple!
 
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