Probably an AI image, too. The shirt wrinkles are a bit odd, color and shape of the arm at the elbow, face looks too homogenized, and hair lighting seems off. If it’s real, then there’s a lot of editing done.
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Faster mmWave 5G Still Limited to U.S. iPhone 17 Models
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That is because there isn’t a speed difference between 4G and most of what carries label as 5G.
The fast speeds are in the c-band and mmWave spectrum and there isn’t any real consistency in how different carrier label this stuff.
Verizon calls the c-band and mmWave 5G UW, and you have to pay for a middle teir or higher “Unlimited” plan to access it.
That said, Verizon does have mmWave rollout nearly everywhere around here and my cellphone speeds are almost always between 1-1.5 Gbps.
Lots of mmWave around here. Even the Target/Walmart/major grocery store parking lots around here have mmWave on Verizon. I get it in the parks, along the train lines and interstate, pretty much everywhere.
I know it is mmWave because I get speeds of 1.5 Gbps, whereas I think c-band tops out around 900 Mbps.
The only downside is you have to see these towers everywhere:
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There's like one or two tiny sections with mmWave coverage within 50 miles of where I live and they're not even places I go to often.
When I went to Japan, their 4G/5G still worked very well despite being in their busy train stations. mmWave is not as important as some thinks.
When I went to Japan, their 4G/5G still worked very well despite being in their busy train stations. mmWave is not as important as some thinks.
I’m gonna guess it’ll be gone next year when all the iPhones switch to Apple silicon modems.
mmWave on Verizon is typically 3-5Gbps. I've seen people show off C-band speed tests up as high as 2.6Gbps although I've personally only seen just over 2Gbps on my 16 Pro Max.
mmWave for comparison (upload would have likely been better but we were driving so we left the tower range pretty quickly):
I've had speeds of nearly 2Gbps in my village, we don't have mmWave in my country.
Oh nice!
I guess I have been misinformed. That is really good to know!
Side: what is the upload speed still so slow?
This massive ugly thing on the top of the phone…
I’m curious why it is needed on the 17 Pro, but there is no cutout like this on the 16 Pro?
I seem to recall the 13 Pro having it on the side, roughly where the current camera control is located. Maybe even the 15 Pro as well. So how did the 16 Pro manage without it, and why has it returned?
iPhones bought outside the US also have mid-band accessibility. I got my 15 PM in the UK (and also got Verizon to whitelist it got esim use), and can connect to everything but the genuine mmwave (n258-261) no problem.
After the 13 Pro they moved it to the back, I guess it was possible since the devices were fully glass on the back.
Not once have I ever seen any of my iPhones use mmWave on AT&T, seems like such a non-existent thing to me.
Not true. I have a 15 Pro and the mmWave antenna glass is on the right side, just like the 14, 13, and 12 models. Perhaps on the 16 models, they somehow utilized the Camera Control cutout as a dual-purpose mmWave antenna, but couldn’t do that on the 17 models?