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'iPhone 6s' to Support Faster Download Speeds With Improved Qualcomm LTE Modem
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FWIW I suspect the ANMR317 chip is some sort of RF chain companion chip. No comparable that I can find.
On the backside of this board likely resides the WTR3925. It replaces the WTR1625L and WFR1620 seen in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S. It is the 28nm RF component I was referring to. It's good news because it saves board space and should be lower power. (9635M is also 20nm rather than 28nm in 9625M)
Relevant anandtech passage:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7531/qualcomm-announces-fourth-gen-cat-6-lte-modem-mdm9x35
On the backside of this board likely resides the WTR3925. It replaces the WTR1625L and WFR1620 seen in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S. It is the 28nm RF component I was referring to. It's good news because it saves board space and should be lower power. (9635M is also 20nm rather than 28nm in 9625M)
Relevant anandtech passage:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7531/qualcomm-announces-fourth-gen-cat-6-lte-modem-mdm9x35
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Their netcode that bad they need 300mbps for multiplayer functionality?Call of Duty Online Multiplayer?
I am not getting this. You are not the first post to raise the point "useless without unlimited data plan." If I have 5 gig, then, um, I have 5 gig. What does the speed have to do with capacity? At least in my case, my usage habit is not affected by speed, it's affected by availability.
I currently have 15 gig plan to support the entire family. We never exceed our capacity. Why will a faster chip, all of a sudden, require an unlimited plan?
Processor speed increases are almost always meaningless in the iOS ecosystem, where virtually every app developer is required to support legacy hardware 2-3 generations back in order to be profitable.
I'm always more excited about the "S" updates than the redesigns. Capability wise, they are always bigger jumps. So speak for yourself.
I'm very excited about the release of the iPhone 6S
It might, it might not all depends on the user.
Just as an example to see their side of the argument... If I have to spend 30mins on the bus and plan on using my phone, I will use more data in those 30 mins because things load faster and there is less waiting.
faster speeds do not mean you go though data quicker. that trip to google.com will still use the same amount of data, it simply loads quicker
my 20 gig plan will still be plenty
my 20 gig plan will still be plenty
Anything that you could do on a desktop as the iPhone can be used as a hotspot, for one.
More on point though: I used my iPhone to control a remote desktop. That requires quite a lot of bandwidth.
I don't follow how this is true. Usually the action that takes time is actually consuming the content, not waiting for it to loan. Whether it loads at 50Mbps or 300Mbps, a 15 minute podcast will still take 15 minutes to listen to; a 3 minute song will still take 3 minutes to listen to; a 2000-word New York Times article will still be 2000-words; etc.
The only media I can think of that usually loads slower than I can consume are small pictures - like Instagram. Other than that, I don't see how more speed means more used.
Fair point. I do take the bus to work, but I am usually reading and answering work related emails, so my data usage will not change regardless of the load speed, since the thinking and writing is the bulk of the time. If you are streaming music, you cannot hear music any faster, so again don't see it altering data consumption. However, if they are flipping mindlessly through FB or Twitter, then your point is valid. Maybe in a picture intensive app like flickr or Snapchat, where you could flip through photos faster. Not my use case, but I get there are those out there that have this use case.
Some video streaming services would adjust their quality depending
Some live streaming services, such as twitch, adjust the video quality according to the user's bandwidth. But then again, you can manually switch to a lower setting if you have limited data.
Some live streaming services, such as twitch, adjust the video quality according to the user's bandwidth. But then again, you can manually switch to a lower setting if you have limited data.
A faster modem means your device is transmitting less time, which improves power usage a lot. That's where the main advantage of faster speed for most people : battery lasts longer.
Its the same thing with a faster processor. Most people don't need the power per say, but the fact the processor needs to work less and less time to get the job done (even if the difference for the user cannot be measured as it is already responsive) means its using less power : also called "race to idle". For most people, their A8/A9 will be active a very small portion of the time.
If your modem transmit a smaller portion of the time, it uses less battery, that's mainly how it is useful.
If we get Force Touch, decent Camera, decent Ram, and faster processor/LTE speed...these are, yeah these are little things but they add up to a good enough update that I will buy.
As long as the entry iPhone is 32GB and they have other colors.
I think the iPhone 3GS -> iPhone 4 was probably the biggest overall jump
More speed = less buffering, faster loading. So that Netflix stream might buffer a few mins faster, likewise with the podcast.
A 2000 word article will load a few seconds faster, as you browse through articles you will buy your self another minute or so to browse more articles.
Im not saying that usage difference is big but there is valid reasoning behind it.
Apple being Apple, Samsung had this chip inside the Galaxy Alpha and S5 LTE-A last year, at the same time the i6 was introduced, here we can see that Apple really hold innovation for the next year. insted of using it at the i6 (maybe it would have a less dissapointing battery life bacause it's a more efficient chip, 20 nm) they decided to use the 9X25 with it's archaic and power hungry 28 nm process. http://www.fudzilla.com/35923-qualcomm-20nm-9x35-gobi-cat-6-modem-in-phones