Qualcomm Now Relies on Android as Apple Modems Roll Out

[xpxp2002]

There is none.

Repost:

I know an Apple engineer who works strictly on cellular/RF (FYI, I’ve never been able to pry anything out of him). Except once.

When that cellular insights blog appeared years ago bashing the Intel/iPhone modem I asked him about it. His response:

“How does someone at a no-name blog get hold of half a million dollars in sophisticated cellular test equipment and then proceed to do a few specific tests out of the hundreds available to conclude one modem is better than another?”

He seemed convinced it was a Qualcomm engineer posing as some independent researcher.

I mean, it very well could be. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the tests or their results were wrong.

Enough of us got the Intel baseband in our iPhone 7s across the country, and in those real world use cases, we saw how bad it was compared to the same device using a Qualcomm baseband. Heck, even my iPhone 6s with its Qualcomm baseband was more reliable than the iPhone 7 with Intel inside. I’ll never forget the constant audio dropouts during VoLTE calls, even in good signal conditions.

And don’t forget that Apple intentionally gimped the iPhone 7 Qualcomm baseband by turning off some functionalities to try to make it perform closer to the Intel baseband — the same tech that they acquired to rebrand as the C1.

 

[LowKeyed]

Qualcomm has been dead to me since they dumped Eudora. I have a long memory, and don't forgive easily.

You get the source code here. The Pres. at a university I worked at had several years of email in an Euduro backup that I had to move into outlook. Ended up using the CHM version. It was a "fun" little exercise.

 

[platinumaqua]

Qualcomm modems, while generally better, is not immune to rushing out something before it's ready for the marketing point.

(looking at the subpar 5G support in X50 modem used in the 12 series. Their first 4G modem was pretty bad/power hungry too.)

 

[Nermal]

They didn't create Eudora; they bought it.

True, but they bought it early in its life, and most of the versions that people are familiar with were from Qualcomm.

 

[ossifer]

It’s written as “reducing its dependence on Apple” but it’s pronounced “losing Apple’s business”…

 

[rp2011]

lol, only a matter of time till Samsung try's it's had at modems. It's not like them to cede any space.

 

[120FPS]

Apple has turned that around, as it seemed like they had issues initially. I think the true test will be when the next generation of mobile communications comes into play in the 2030s.

 

[ph001bi]

How is this news? Of course if you lose one of your biggest customers you have to rely on the remaining ones. Digitimes specialises in wrong or pointless informations. I hope this publication is free, I cannot imagine anyone vaguely sane paying for this level of "information".