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iPhone 7 Plus Qualcomm LTE Modem Outperforms Intel LTE Modem by Significant Margin

This is an Intel Modem... not complaining
 

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bunnicula said:
But, for now, Verizon and Sprint do use CDMA, and so do some other countries that do not have full GSM support. So, TRUE world would be a phone you can use anywhere, with any network, and have the most favorable results. For now, that is the Verizon phone, the Sprint phone, and the SIM-free phone that is sold in the US in Apple stores and all other carriers everywhere else on the planet.

I get your point and once CDMA vanishes, a GSM phone will be all Apple will make.
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In the US the ATT network in the best. Period. The other countries that still use cdma are so far behind the times who would want to go there??
 
This is absolutely not a non-issue. I get no service on my AT&T whatsoever in grocery stores where I used to get weak service on my old iPhones. Last night I was at a casino I've been to before and had no service, yet the last time I was at that casino I played Pokémon GO on my iPhone 6 as I walked around. I remember service being very slow, with that game freezing a few times, but I couldn't even receive a text all night last night.

I had no service in my house until I updated to the 10.1 beta. Seems my service no longer drops outside, but I lose it in Target, Wal-Mart, Publix grocery store and other large buildings like the casino.

I wonder if this is something I could swap out for? I've got AppleCare.

A better question may be... why the heck does AT&T have such low signal in one of the biggest casinos in the world? Hard Rock Tampa. And why is their signal low all around where I live, which is 15 minutes from Walt Disney World and filled with vacation rentals for tourists?

I can see cell towers EVERYwhere, yet I've always got one dot.
 
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parapup said:
Tim's operational excellence - This is how Apple is keeping its profit margins even after eliminating low end storage options and choosing cheaper providers for modems. First slower TSMC chips, then slow storage for 32GB ones and now slower Intel modems - all at the same price for you, and if you're Apple's target demographic you would never notice a thing (they hope)!
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The TSMC chips were faster. And anyone who knows anything about SSDs knows that higher capacity drives are by nature faster than lower capacity drives because of parallelism.
 
KPOM said:
The TSMC chips were faster. And anyone who knows anything about SSDs knows that higher capacity drives are by nature faster than lower capacity drives because of parallelism.
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Doesn't matter which chips were slower - point being there is downside to some phones that are same specs and have same price. SSDs yeah slower wasn't the question - how much slower was. 32GB model was 8x slower than 128GB model. You'll find benchmarks for 32GB/64GB storage capacity SSDs doing 90MB/s writes. Apple's 32GB was doing 46MB/s IIRC.
 
jca24 said:
In the US the ATT network in the best. Period. The other countries that still use cdma are so far behind the times who would want to go there??
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Actually, Verizon is better in many parts of the US and people do like to buy resale phones to take to remote countries.
 
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Great, so I lost all 3 iPhone lotteries. I got a matte black instead of jet black, I got a 32gb which has the slower memory, AND I got a T-mobile version which has a much slower modem. Anything else that makes my 7 Plus inferior to the others?
 
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So only the American CDMA iPhone is a true world phone? All the iPhones sold else where in the world are not. My understanding it only Verizon and Sprint are the CDMA version. The rest are all Intel?

bunnicula said:
But, for now, Verizon and Sprint do use CDMA, and so do some other countries that do not have full GSM support. So, TRUE world would be a phone you can use anywhere, with any network, and have the most favorable results. For now, that is the Verizon phone, the Sprint phone, and the SIM-free phone that is sold in the US in Apple stores and all other carriers everywhere else on the planet.

I get your point and once CDMA vanishes, a GSM phone will be all Apple will make.
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Gueeds said:
I have the Intel modem. Maybe I have a clunker, but speeds are way worse in real world use. Almost as bad as bad 3G when I have LTE on both. Side by side using the same SIM card, I'm lucky to get 1mbps up and down on the 7. I get 12 down and 1 up on my 6+ which is good enough.

Phone is going back, if the replacement doesn't improve, I'm keeping my 6+.
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Bad phone or bad cell tower. I just tried mine (with the Intel modem) and I'm getting 40 mbps down and 3 mbps up, which seem to be throttled by the cell tower. I also only have two bars of signal strength showing - although my iPhones always seem to show that, no matter where I am.
 
I have AT&T 7 Plus 128

oh well is all i have to say about this, i have a really nice screen seems fast and in some cases better than my 6s plus or SE so maybe it is kinda moot?

Holds onto a call better than either those other phones did in my pesky bad reception apartment
 
Would this affect GPS signal in any way? Or are the GPS modules on a different chip?
 
This is why I no longer buy the iPhone and just rent it for 1 year with Apple up program. With the different chips (Samsung/TCMP vs QUALCOMM/INtel vs slow ram) I don't have to worry about resale value at all. As long as the phone performs at Apple tolerances and I don't have issues I am fine. I find my ATT 7+ to get slightly better reception in the same places the my 6S and the speed is great. 10.5 month to go until trade in :)
 
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maybe I'm optimistic but I still dont think this will impact resell value

more curious of some kind of scientific test of battery life differences (if any) between these radios
 
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SO if you purchase and unlocked iPhone at full pop, does that guarantee you'll end up with the qualcomm or is this not the case?

Thanks in advance
 
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