Let me sum up your thoughts here, with your own words.
Nice selective quote without the context of your ignorant posts.
But but but I have the X20...
You don't seem to understand the difference between theory to the real world practicality. This includes a carrier's own implementation of such features. AT&T has never been one at the forefront of wireless tech. Heck, there are areas that still show wcdma, instead of LTE. They're pretty-much behind Tmobile and Verizon in every speedtest and don't think I forgot things like the 1.5Mb/s upload cap they had for ages or the pathetic 6.4kb AMR they used for voice for ages. Therefore, it doesn't matter what "chipset" a phone is using when a carrier is restricting and throttling and QoSing the hell out of their services.
AT&T is six of one and half a dozen of another with Verizon. Sure, they haven't finished an upgrade in ages, but they still have a MUCH larger and better network than T-Mobile. Their voice quality is excellent, and their speeds aren't winning the e-penis awards that T-Mobile is, but if you account for all the places that T-Mobile gets ZERO because they don't have any service, and AT&T is pulling 5 or 10 or 20mbps, AT&T starts to look really good.
It's not surprising that you shun education and actual experience over your gut feelings.
Again, WRONG. I am a very fact-based person. You obviously aren't, since you don't know basic facts about what Gigabit LTE is or how it works.
Again, shows that you have no idea what you're talking about. A lot of this is controlled by the things like the amp chips that a phone is using. As well as antenna design and so forth. Even when they only used QualMonopoly / QualAnti-Trust /Qual-Bend-Customers-Over, Apple has never been one to run their wireless chipsets at full throttle, like android does and its probably the one area that android beats them in a benchmark. This is by choice, not because they are stupid. Their engineers are clearly balancing battery usage with performance.
So now you're claiming that iPhones have lousy reception because of... battery life?!? That's a new one. The iPhone 8+ was pretty darn good in terms of reception, so I have no clue where you're getting that from. The problem is that Apple has shown that when it is convenient for their design, they will build a phone with good RF performance, like the iPhone 8+, but when it's not, like with the X series, they will build a phone with crappy RF performance. The battery issues that Android phones have aren't because of their RF chain or baseband, they are because of software. A more open ecosystem means less control over what apps are doing, and skins like BloatWiz seem to add a lot of battery drain on some models, like the SGS 7.
This is why I have Note handsets that cut off at 35%-45% battery, as in totally shutdown or even bootloop, versus the throttling that Android fanboys claim to be bad. It was awesome when I was out and about and my work Note on its 6th battery just bootlooped in my pocket.
And what model is that? From how many years ago? The Galaxy S8 and newer have much longer battery longevity than the iPhone due to the way Samsung manages charging and discharging. On the other hand, Apple has stores that make it easier to replace the battery than on a Galaxy or Note series, so there's that.
Well... Sounds like you should just go out and buy a Note which you want. That way you can have the "best wireless chipset" and be done with it. Having worked with QualCrap for years, I'm happy that they got rid of them. Qualcom ain't no intel, they only compete by blocking competition. CDMA died because of them, whereas GSM, which lives on as LTE and now 5G survived because manufacturers didn't monopolize the chipsets.
You are so clueless. Qualcomm is the only company actually innovating and pushing the technology forward. They are the ones that make radios that actually work well, as opposed to the crap that Intel puts out. CDMA had it's time in the limelight, but ultimately GSM/WCDMA/LTE won because of the rest of the world using it. Intel was HUGE on WiMax, which was pretty much a flop, unlike CDMA which was great for over a decade.
Also, my good ole Nokia, Ericsson, and Motorola with an extendable external antenna still beat anything on the market for signal.
On what network and technology? There are no widespread GSM networks running today, CDMA is slated to mostly die at the end of next year, so that leaves WCDMA and VoLTE for voice networks, which those phones probably don't have.
Are you seriously going to bring up batteries when an entire model year of a Note was scrapped due to their batteries literally exploding and catching on fire.
With my last note (4), I went through not 1 but 6 batteries, so that is not "b.s.". The way I knew it was time for yet another battery replacement was because the phone would bootloop endlessly at the 50% mark. Now compare this to a iPhone 6 we have which is still on its original battery and at 75% at "Peak Performance capability". I can literally walk into an apple store and get it replaced for $79 if I wanted too.
There's no way your iPhone 6 still has 75% battery capacity. iPhone batteries degrade much more quickly than that. And a Note 4?!? Samsung totally changed their battery technology after the Note 7 thermal runaway issues, and now they have the best battery technology on the market in the Galaxy S9 and Note 9 series.
Samsung on the other hand stopped making batteries for their much touted "removable battery" a year after launch. Which means all of the batteries available are are knockoffs. Apple on the other hand is selling freshly manufactured and official batteries.
And who cares? They're removable.
Don't get me started on the software updates, which also ended a year later, making the flagship Android handset of 2014 stuck on android 6.0.1 (released 2015). Whereas, an iPhone 5s released an entire year earlier (2013) just got the latest (2018) iOS 12 update.
Software updates definitely are an advantage of Apple. Their battery tech is lousy compared to Samsung, but if you just get a new battery put in every year or two, an iPhone can last forever. On the other hand, Apple is so far behind in LTE technology and LTE banding that keeping a phone that's more than a couple of years old, or even a year old in the case of T-Mobile means that you're missing out on capacity and/or coverage depending on the bands and carrier.
but I like get 2mb/s faster speeds via Qualcomm.
Ha! That Note 4 has the fabled Qualcomm chipset yet they weren't even able to activate the CA that the other clown on here foams at the mouth over. Ironically, is also known for having poor 700MHz band coverage.
I'm not comparing anything to the Note 4. Why don't we compare the 1990 Honda Accord to the 2019 Camry and see which car is better while we're at it? From the S7 and newer, Samsung has dominated in both LTE banding and RF performance, and they just keep getting better every year. My S3 was lousy on RF performance, my Moto G was pretty good, my S7 was great in it's time, but now the X16 and X20 platforms have out-performed what the X12 can do.
Further, you obviously don't get why having good RF performance is important. It's not about an e-penis match on speedtest. It's about a Qualcomm X20 based phone having a bar of service and pulling 2mbps on the extreme cell edge when an Intel-based iPhone doesn't have usable data, or likely a signal at all. It's about the X20 based phone being able to quickly re-connect to LTE while in the subway when the Intel-based iPhone can't. It's about the X20 based phone working deep inside buildings where the Intel-based iPhone doesn't work.
THAT's what it's about, not about an e-penis match on speedtests. Anyone who is going to use stupid, sarcastic lines about raw top speed, does not understand why RF performance matters. Period.
Samsung couldn't pay me to buy one of their handsets anymore. Then again, they won't even accept their POS handset as a trade-in.
You should try one of the S9 or Note 9 series devices, they are quite incredible. The S8 and newer is a significant departure from the S7 battery life and performance mess (although the S7 is otherwise a decent phone).
