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iPhone 12 iPhone 12 teardown shows Qualcomm X55

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From teardown video on Weibo, showing X55 modem.

This rejects the rather silly theory posed by some people thinking iPhone 12 would come with Qualcomm X60.


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mailman199 said:
How much better is the X60 with signal strength?
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That depends largely on antenna design. What X60 offers is aggregation of Sub-6 GHz bands and mmWave. Basically much faster 5G, if the network supports it.
 
JPack said:
From teardown video on Weibo, showing X55 modem.

This rejects the rather silly theory posed by some people thinking iPhone 12 would come with Qualcomm X60.


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I thought X60 are only slated for 2021 phones in general.

Will be great to get an X60 based iPhone I think those will be a lot more efficient when using 5G, these first gens will be best used with 4G LTE, which is still plenty for most of us.
 
Tsepz said:
Will be great to get an X60 based iPhone I think those will be a lot more efficient when using 5G, these first gens will be best used with 4G LTE, which is still plenty for most of us.
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This is actually the second gen 5G modem from Qualcomm. The X60 will be more efficient and offer some neat things like carrier aggregation don't expect a huge difference in performance and battery life.

MMWave 5G is going to suck battery for a very long time and maybe forever. It's not just the battery being taxed by the modem most people are missing that you're taxing the crap out of the CPU to be able to download at > 1000 Mbps as well as writing to the ram/storage that much data. It all suck a lot of power. And the faster you go (download/upload speed) the more CPU usage you're going to use the shorter the battery life.
 
dlewis23 said:
This is actually the second gen 5G modem from Qualcomm. The X60 will be more efficient and offer some neat things like carrier aggregation don't expect a huge difference in performance and battery life.

MMWave 5G is going to suck battery for a very long time and maybe forever. It's not just the battery being taxed by the modem most people are missing that you're taxing the crap out of the CPU to be able to download at > 1000 Mbps as well as writing to the ram/storage that much data. It all suck a lot of power. And the faster you go (download/upload speed) the more CPU usage you're going to use the shorter the battery life.
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Haha, I should have specified, I meant first Gen 5G iPhones, not modem.

Indeed, wouldn’t expect a crazy difference.
 
Australia biggest Telco havn't given it their bluetick which means better reception in rural areas, last iPhone that had it was the 8 and before that 6S, 4S.
All the new Samsungs have it.

Disappointing.
 
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