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

wonderings said:
Nothing against getting faster speeds, I just wonder what regular user is actually benefiting from this now. With 2 bars here in Canada, I am getting 350 down, 20 up. LTE had green speeds as well. I don't notice any difference in my usage of loading webpages, the occasional youtube video, streaming music. It all works as well as it did when LTE was the bing thing. I can see commercial applications benefiting from faster speeds, but for regular users it seems like this is a sails gimmick to try and give more value to the 14 when it is basically the same as the 13 with some minor updates.
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Im fine with Green speeds, though purple speed is also fine when I go sailing.
 
5G aside, I was hoping to find out more info on these new modems because the last few have left something to be desired compared to Qualcomm’s offerings. Didn’t Apple purchase Intel’s modem business?
 
Psdn said:
What’s the reason with no mmWave here in Europe? I was considering buying a iPhone from US, because my carrier here in Denmark have mmWave.
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A handful of European service providers have stated (something along the lines of) that they are postponing the initial rollout of mmWave 5G for consumers to 2025 or later because the cost of implementing it now vs average real life consumer need for extremely fast cellular simply doesn’t add up.

However, mmWave is actually already being tested and is available in some areas for certain businesses and governments who need mmWave speeds. But this is only happening small scale.

The sentiment is also that mmWave 5G device adoption rates are still too low, and that 4G paired with the current “regular”, slower 5G provides more than enough bandwidth for current consumer needs.
 
flofixer said:
iPhone 11 Pro used the crappy Intel modem
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I don't see the "crappy" Intel model on my XS giving me any problems.

I get 3-4 bars the majority of the time here in Germany with the occasional 2 bars and maxing out my LTE speeds. Don't see the issue here.
 
Those speed benchmarks are really slow, on 4G on EE in the UK I can hit 200Mbps, 850Mbps+ on 5G and that was on the 13 Pro Max.
 
I was shocked to see this result last night. My house has 500x500 fiber that usually runs at 535x550. This is the fastest speed that I've seen outside of University Gigabit!
 

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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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That’s where you are wrong. I benefit a lot from faster download speeds.
 
GeoStructural said:
Trust me, it is not a thing in here either. I live in a major metro area and consistent/reliable 5G can only be used in Downtown (city center). It is sparse everywhere else.
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What’s are the speeds like for mmWave compared to standard 5G where you are? / versus 4G
 
MacRumors said:


The iPhone 14 Pro features faster 5G speeds on the T-Mobile and Verizon networks in the United States compared to the iPhone 13 Pro, largely thanks to a new 5G modem in the latest iPhones.

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The test by SpeedSmart shows that the iPhone 14 Pro reached peak 5G speeds of 255.91 Mbps for downloads on T-Mobile compared to 173.81 Mbps on the iPhone 13 Pro. On Verizon, the iPhone 14 Pro reached peak 5G download speeds of 175.56 Mbps versus 126.33 Mbps for last year's iPhone.

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The improvements in peak 5G speeds on iPhone 14 Pro models are thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X65 modem, offering faster speeds, improved latency, and lower energy consumption.

Article Link: iPhone 14 Pro Features Faster 5G Speeds Thanks to New Modem Chip
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What a joke. I got 860Mb/s in Denmark on my 13Pro this summer on 5G.
 
wonderings said:
Nothing against getting faster speeds, I just wonder what regular user is actually benefiting from this now. With 2 bars here in Canada, I am getting 350 down, 20 up. LTE had green speeds as well. I don't notice any difference in my usage of loading webpages, the occasional youtube video, streaming music. It all works as well as it did when LTE was the bing thing. I can see commercial applications benefiting from faster speeds, but for regular users it seems like this is a sails gimmick to try and give more value to the 14 when it is basically the same as the 13 with some minor updates.
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Someone always finds a way to consume all the memory, all the processor speed, and all the bandwidth.
 
Is that all you're getting? In Spain we get 1.2Gbps, but the reality is who needs this? I also find 4G speeds are perfectly sufficient for both movie and music streaming, plus a heck of a lot more reliable. 5G requires a strong signal, however 4G can work well with just 2 bars. As soon as you're down to 3 bars with 5G, you haven't a hope in heck, and once down to 4 bars, the speed falls to 4G bandwidths anyway.

And then you have battery life. 5G DRAINS the battery at insane speeds. For that reason, I usually keep it disabled unless I can keep it powered to a power source.

You can't share that connection speed by WiFi hotspot sharing and you certainly can't by cable as it's limited to 480Mbps.

Perhaps these speeds will make sense when the iPhone 15 is released with USB-C?
 
RumorConsumer said:
Europeans are so proud of getting broadband to their little urban centers. But then you go 30 min outside the city and it’s 3G at best in so many places.
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Not quite true. I live about 30km inland on the side of a mountain in the South of Spain, and maintain a solid 5G connection at my home. In fact, I rarely see 3G these days...

Now the US is another story....2G at best in some places!
 
Fraserh02 said:
What’s are the speeds like for mmWave compared to standard 5G where you are? / versus 4G
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I don't have numbers right now but I can tell you it is significantly faster.

However, even if you don't move around the signal is very spotty, you could be seated watching a video in crips 4K and a minute later it goes to 480p for no reason. Texas (where I live) is too sparsely populated, even within cities it is not uncommon to lose signal while driving.
 
beanbaguk said:
Not quite true. I live about 30km inland on the side of a mountain in the South of Spain, and maintain a solid 5G connection at my home. In fact, I rarely see 3G these days...

Now the US is another story....2G at best in some places!
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I support this, I remember being in a remote village in the Alps in 2010-2011 and I had 3G signal, that was 12 years ago!!! Meanwhile in Texas you get no reception by driving from work to home.
 
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