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iPhone 14 Pro Features Faster 5G Speeds Thanks to New Modem Chip

oneteam said:
This is true. I used to have bad reception at my gym. Safari and Apple Music were so choppy on my 13 PM now they are smooth as butter on my 14PM.
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In my house on T-Mobile with my 13 Pro Max I would get 150 - 200 Mbps download when on 5GUC. Now in the same locations with my 14 Pro Max I am seeing 500 - 800 Mbps. I can have both a 13 Pro and 14 Pro next to each other and the 14 is double the performance.

Something else has had to change other than just a modem to get double the performance.
 
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lazyrighteye said:
What about AT&T? Asking for a friend.
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Me personally, I’ve been getting around 100 Mbps down on AT&T’s lowband 5G.

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burnout8488 said:
I got 720Mbps down on T-Mobile mmWave 5G the other day. (14Pro) Ridiculous speeds...

Went back to my iPhone SE2 yesterday and found that I was still able to do everything I need on LTE, though. :)
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See, you can still do everything you would want to do on a phone using LTE without problems.

Unless your cellular plan is your only way of getting internet, 5G speeds are honestly a gimmick that's meant to drive sales. At the end of the day, it's a phone.
 
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That checks out. With my 12, I used to get 160Mbps or so where I live. Now? 320Mbps or so.
 
I recently got 595 Mbps down with T-Mobile and my lowly iPhone 12 Mini (Speedtest.net link) ... this SpeedSmart report doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. At first I thought maybe they were reporting higher average speeds but the article is clearly stating peak speeds. Am I missing something here?
 
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Both of these speeds seem pretty slow. I was in downtown Charlotte a few weeks ago and getting 1500 Mbps on my Verizon sim. My T-Mobile sim was getting around 175 at the time. This is all on a 13 Pro Max.
 
I just did 356 down and 60 up on Verizon’s c-band. 13 Pro Max. Not sure what I’d need these speeds for. Yet then sometimes I have full bars and no data working.
 
justgeig said:
I recently got 595 Mbps down with T-Mobile and my lowly iPhone 12 Mini (Speedtest.net link) ... this SpeedSmart report doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. At first I thought maybe they were reporting higher average speeds but the article is clearly stating peak speeds. Am I missing something here?
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It's not peak, its an average over thousands of tests across the US.
 
I wonder what the actual speed increases are, because like many here, I've been regularly getting 400-500Mbps with instances in the 650-800Mbps range.

Edit: iPhone 12 Pro Max, TMobile, US (Boston Area)
 
vtuberalpha said:
This. It's not like this bump in 5G speeds is gonna suddenly make your browser open up websites 10x faster.

For the vast majority of people, LTE is more than enough and I have no clue why people are so fixated on 5G, when all they do is browse MacRumors and watch YouTube on a phone.

None of us is actually benefiting from this extra speed and this is just another bigger number on paper that will mean next to nothing. Your iPhone isn't a datacenter, it's an iPhone.
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We're all benefiting from this extra speed. If there's more bandwidth available, when an area gets crowded you'll still have usable speeds.

So yeah, you might speed test a gigabit and think "wow that's cool but useless" but when there's a big crowd of people in the area, all using their phones, you'll end up speedtesting 50 instead of 0.11. That's what upgrading capacity and bandwidth is all about.

Also it gets ya'll off LTE so us with iPhone 11 series get more speed. ;)
 
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Not got 5G at my current location but heres a test I did a few days back on my iPhone 12 Mini with Three UK.

Just wondering would I really expect faster speeds if I was testing the two devices side by side?
 

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zorinlynx said:
We're all benefiting from this extra speed. If there's more bandwidth available, when an area gets crowded you'll still have usable speeds.

So yeah, you might speed test a gigabit and think "wow that's cool but useless" but when there's a big crowd of people in the area, all using their phones, you'll end up speedtesting 50 instead of 0.11. That's what upgrading capacity and bandwidth is all about.

Also it gets ya'll off LTE so us with iPhone 11 series get more speed. ;)
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I agree with that last bit haha, even though I get full LTE speeds at all times in my very densely populated city (3.5 million).

So that congestion argument hasn't affected me yet but I guess it's more of a problem in the US than here in Europe.
 
Living in a rural area I actually see 5G and 5GUC once and a while but whether that or LTE it's nearly always 1 - 3 MB /sec on a good day but usually it's slower with bursts and pauses. :rolleyes:
For now I'll leave it on LTE to help with the poor battery life I'm getting on my 14 Pro. It's awful compared to my 11 Pro Max.
 
Stefan51278 said:
It is helpful in areas with spotty coverage when you just have a good signal for a short time. The higher efficiency is one of the main points when battery life is improving. When Qualcomm went from 7nm in the iPhone 12 to 5nm in the iPhone 13 this was a big reason for the better battery life, some would say more than the new Apple SoC which stayed on the same 5nm process node.

When you recognize all these points the effort to build an Apple-modem makes way more sense because the main-chip had enough perfomance for several years and is fully optimized while they see potential to do the same with the modem. I expect iPhones to have a massive increase in battery life some years down the road when Apple ships these modems.
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Don’t disagree given the new a16 has shown little improvement.
 
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