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

I assume they all come with the x65 chip outside of the U.S as well? Since they don’t offer mmWave in Canada, I still hoped for the better chip and reception
 
I would love to get a steady 20-50 Mbps EVERYWHERE and ANYTIME no matter what the technology is. Or even 10 Mbps :(
 
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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Hah well... my experience traveling around in 2020 was that Id hit a more developed area and there was fiber everywhere. Great cellular service. Then I would get in the car to go to the next place and blam, nothing and all the AirBNBs in the country were on 6Mb DSL and wireless was 3G.
 
My iPhone 14 Pro (T-mobile) got 645 Mbps down and 99.8 Mbps upload speed I tested during the weekend.
 
.18Mbps on my new 14PM. Thanks AT&T. Very Cool!

It's only the 7th largest city in the US. I can't imagine its that important to them.
 

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LeadingHeat said:
So sick of people assuming Verizon is still the fastest and the best. T-Mobile is out here making HUGE strides but everyone is so stuck in their ways and remembering how bad it used to be 10 years ago. At a fraction of the cost why wouldn’t you switch now?
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I never though Verizon was the fastest, or even fast, but they definitely have the best coverage. It's still LTE anywhere near me right now though, so definitely not fast. I don't even get 100Mb/s down, and we have a verizon tower on the property.
 
I ran speed tests on my iPhone 14 Pro over T-Mobile 5G with both Speedtest and SpeedSmart, and got very different results. Speedtest gets me 1300 - 1400 Mbps down, 100 - 135 Mbps up, while SpeedSmart shows 158 - 183 Mbps down, 100 - 123 Mbps up at the same location. I guess SpeedSmart is testing differently but I don't know what. I've been using Speedtest for years and 5G is showing way faster than anything I ever had on that.

Yet, SpeedSmart is showing me similar results over my home Wifi as Speedtest.
 
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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5G benefits from lower latency and more bandwidth to go around. It quite literally is perceived as faster than LTE.

It’s like the difference between cable and fiber at 1Gb/s. Fiber is absolutely faster for webpage browsing and YouTube because it’s latency is almost 0ms (I get 2ms at home). Everything is just instant.

5G also benefits from more bandwidth so more devices can be on a single tower without the speed tanking. All that adds up to a much better user experience.
 
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Curious why apple didn't go with the x70 as it is 60% more power effecient than the x65.

Should see this in the iphone 15. That coupled with a lower energy 3nm chip will net nice battery gains.
 
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When is Apple’s in-house 5G modem supposed to debut? I know that Apple has a multi-year contract, but I figure the in-house modem has to be close to completion…
 
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bry223 said:
Curious why apple didn't go with the x70 as it is 60% more power effecient than the x65.

Should see this in the iphone 15. That coupled with a lower energy 3nm chip will net nice battery gains.
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Apple sells a lot of phones.

The modem must finish design/engineering early enough to get into production, and the foundry must make enough of them.
 
Mazda 3s said:
When is Apple’s in-house 5G modem supposed to debut? I know that Apple has a multi-year contract, but I figure the in-house modem has to be close to completion…
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It’s their first modem, that’s hard to guess.

Personally, I think next year or the following one, but only on the Pro.
 
LeadingHeat said:
So sick of people assuming Verizon is still the fastest and the best. T-Mobile is out here making HUGE strides but everyone is so stuck in their ways and remembering how bad it used to be 10 years ago. At a fraction of the cost why wouldn’t you switch now?
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Coverage outside densely populated areas.
 
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CarAnalogy said:
Too bad you have to “deal with” the SIM slot on that UK model though…:(
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I don't understand the sudden hate surrounding a physical SIM. It's super quick, easy and does not rely on electronic or carrier crap.

It's not like Apple is making use of the recouped space either, there is just a big piece of plastic instead.
 
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