You don't need to drain your phone's battery, for one. And you don't need to waste energy in both devices communicating.
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Apple Acquiring the Majority of Intel's Smartphone Modem Business
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It's hard to blame the provider when an iPhone XS Max with an Intel modem sitting next to an iPhone 7 with a Qualcomm modem gets 1/2 the reception on the exact same provider.
All that money, and this is the only thing they got.
Yes, that the only disadvantage.
Build in cellular has been done before on Laptops, it never really took of.
anyone who thinks Qualcomm won't be suing Apple over patent violations a few years after modems arrive in iPhones is naive. The war between & QC isn't over, it's just a cease fire. The battle will rage on at a later date
Why not, if the provider has great coverage you won’t have that problem, and, it’s not as bad as some say here.
For sure. The same plan they had with Siri.
If they're able to integrate the modem into the SoC, this will be great for our battery life.
In fact, Qualcomm has been doing exactly that for years (Snapdragon SoCs with integrated CPU, modem and other components). Apple has been pretty much the only large-scale mobile phone manufacturer using their own CPU with separate modem chips. This is also one reason why Intel's smartphone modem business was no longer viable after losing Apple (since without Apple the market for separate modem chips for smartphones doesn't have the kind of scale to justify the resources Intel put into modem development).
iPhone Hotspot works OK, but there are advantages to built-in cellular.
The more important part is to provide an API for apps to understand metered connections, though.
Holy crap, that's twice as fast as my 28.8! Good call, Apple.
Again, blame your provider, don’t know where you live but if it’s the US then the providers are to blame, you pay through your nose yet coverage compared to other places is mediocre.
So it is the fault of the provider that the iPhone XS Max can't grab a signal that the iPhone 7 can? I'm not sure that tracks.
So effectively Apple now owns stolen Qualcomm designs, yet has a deal with Qualcomm..... interesting.
Wonder how long those 2200 people will remain employed by Apple?
Still lets see what Apple actually does with this.
Wonder how long those 2200 people will remain employed by Apple?
Still lets see what Apple actually does with this.
From the reports I remember reading there was about a one or 2 dB difference between the Intel and the QUALCOMM modems (The Intel one being less sensitive. The situation that you are describing is a useless comparison from an engineering point of view - No conclusions can be drawn from it.
Doubt it ever will either. Mobile data caps on a device capable of downloading *hundreds* of GBs of data a month without breaking a sweat would cause major (unlimited) throttling or a price more than the computer itself.
I doubt that they can anytime soon, the modem process is different to the digital chip process as Far as I know. If I recall correctly the modems are on a 28 nm TMSC line - because of the analog RF requirements.
So because you and your friends don’t have an issue then it can’t possibly be Apples fault..... well that’s a false argument if I did ever here it, what sample size have you based this theory on? 20 Apple fans?
Lol, that's pretty amusing
Be honest though I think there were already quite a few rounds of leaving packages a couple of years ago - don't know how many of the old guard were left...