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Wow that's fast. Now I will be able to eat up my data plan even faster 🤣

I'm more interested in seeing what Apple does with their in house modem when it is released.
 
The fastest I've gotten on my 5G iPhone 12 Pro Max is 70 Mbps, lol. Meanwhile I have gigabit on WiFi 6 at my home.
 
Practically speaking I need those speeds in my iPhone about as much as I need a smaller battery.

Anyone here that actually have a legit reason for such a speedy iPhone?

Higher Speed downloading equals lower energy for the same amount of Data transferred.

Although most consumer dont sees the benefits because research has shown the faster you download the more you download. You are effectively limited by time. Not Data. Broadly speaking.

What’s more important is the carrier aggregation and power efficiency.

Apple’s timing is off with Qualcomm on modems, so this year’s iPhone would always have the tail end of the “previous” gen modem. It’s also why Samsung releases their phones in the early part of the year, so they can get first dip in the latest Qualcomm SoC (and the latest gen modem) at the first round.

Luckily, seems like majority of the improvements will be on the X60 modem. The X65 seems more minor, compared to the X55 to X60.

X65 is actually quite an amazing improvement. Samsung 4nm Node. 3GPP Rel 16 ( Which I would refer to as Real 5G ), Lots of power optimisation. At least it is more than I expected. Along with a new RF Front End system.

If they are marking it 4nm, it is also a signal that node to node porting are in the work. And Samsung 5nm are doing fine from a capacity perspective.
 
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Higher Speed downloading equals lower energy for the same amount of Data transferred.
Weeeeeeeell… it's not quite that simple.

If you are going to download 1 GB of data, then getting it fast will probably be more energy efficient; but once you enter the real world you'll find that you have to deal with live streams and services not wanting to (or can't) hand you the data quick enough.

And then it comes down to the exact implementations; both at the receiving and the sending end.
 
I'm still waiting for VoLTE to take the place of GSM and CDMA voice. I was hoping for 2015, but that hope is gone.

When GPRS, EDGE, and 1xRTT are gone and people are covered with LTE, they can worry about 5G.
 
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We’ve consumed the same amount of data online since the 90s. All of these speed increases are such a waste.

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well, you'd be surprised to know how little data you actually consume for most of the time.
 
So, this is about preparing for future directions (especially VR/AR)
i doubt. stuff can be produced on device far easier and far more scalable way compared to any streaming service. plus the latency it'd need to get to you would make you vomit due to sensory disorientation. that is the biggest empty claim of the 5G believers.
funny how i spent the last 4 years meeting with folks showing off AR assisted machine assembly and VR based QC... but all of those wanted us to invest into the tech (e.g. buy the solution from them) - and if you have access to knowhow and breakthrough tech "that can transform the future and will be trillions of $s worth in 2030", why'd you need some stupid MNO to make the investment and limit the reach of the service to their infra if you can bring the stuff to market yourselves?
even more funny is that the "super secret 5G/VR use cases" tried to replace a $20 torque wrench.

here i have the recipe: take any tech you have today, drop a vital element from it, snap on the 5G logo to and call it a future-proof sustainable solution.
 
IDK where your getting your information from but most of the world is NOT stuck on crappy 3G or 4G. Billions of people across the globe have access to very fast mobile networks.

From real life and real people. If you're relying on coverage maps, I suggest you throw those into a bin and set them on fire, they do not represent reality in any shape or form. According to coverage maps I get 4G in the middle of Dublin, and that's true. Speed however... on average 5Mbps. And I have travelled enough around to know the spottiness of 3G and 4G is fairly consistent across Europe and US for example. I had entire sections of the US where there was no signal at all, and then I had sections of Romania for example that had 38Mbps on 3G! So yeah, back to what I was saying, let's make bandwidth consistently decent across the globe, before boasting about 10Gbps connections.
 
The bottle neck has always been infrastructure, not terminals. Even LTE capabilities are not yet fully realized everywhere.
 
From real life and real people. If you're relying on coverage maps, I suggest you throw those into a bin and set them on fire, they do not represent reality in any shape or form. According to coverage maps I get 4G in the middle of Dublin, and that's true. Speed however... on average 5Mbps. And I have travelled enough around to know the spottiness of 3G and 4G is fairly consistent across Europe and US for example. I had entire sections of the US where there was no signal at all, and then I had sections of Romania for example that had 38Mbps on 3G! So yeah, back to what I was saying, let's make bandwidth consistently decent across the globe, before boasting about 10Gbps connections.
Try East Asia. Best networks and coverages in the world.
 
Practically speaking I need those speeds in my iPhone about as much as I need a smaller battery.

Anyone here that actually have a legit reason for such a speedy iPhone?
"The modem has many other benefits, too, including improved power efficiency, enhanced coverage for both mmWave and sub-6 GHz bands, and support for all global commercialized mmWave frequencies"
 
From real life and real people. If you're relying on coverage maps, I suggest you throw those into a bin and set them on fire, they do not represent reality in any shape or form. According to coverage maps I get 4G in the middle of Dublin, and that's true. Speed however... on average 5Mbps. And I have travelled enough around to know the spottiness of 3G and 4G is fairly consistent across Europe and US for example. I had entire sections of the US where there was no signal at all, and then I had sections of Romania for example that had 38Mbps on 3G! So yeah, back to what I was saying, let's make bandwidth consistently decent across the globe, before boasting about 10Gbps connections.

Nothing from coverage maps, just real data from all over the globe as it's my job.
 
Faster is always better. Whether you 'need' it or not is besides the point. I don't really need the speed of my 12 Pro but I'm not complaining about it, it's rather nice actually. Same goes for my iPad, it's way too powerful for what it is and I will never use even 1/10th of its capabilities but it is amazing.

The faster something is, the more use you can get out of it and the longer it will last are the things that count. 5G modems are no different, you will only benefit with each newer generation.
 
Hmm.... I can already imagine it now..
2021: Huawei with Snapdragon X65
2021: Samsung with Snapdragon X65
2021: OnePlus with Snapdragon X65
2021: Huawei with Snapdragon X65
2021: Google Pixel with Snapdragon X65
2022: iPhone with Snapdragon X65: "Innovation"
What’s so innovative about a faster modem anyway?
 
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