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Unless you’re a smartphone ability user, there’s a acceptable adventitious that you didn’t apperceive there’s added than one adaptation of the iPhone X. As we explained in a column aftermost month, Apple equips iPhones in the US with modems from both Intel and Qualcomm, and depending on which carrier you’re on, you ability be ashore with one or the other.
You ability be apprehensive whether or not that matters, and if so, to what degree. In an LTE acceleration analysis that we covered aftermost ages comparing the two versions of the iPhone X, the Intel modem won out, admitting actuality baffled by Qualcomm on the iPhone 7 Plus. But a new analysis suggests that while the architecture has changed, the best modem hasn’t.
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Citing new analysis after-effects from Cellular Insights, PCMag appear on Friday that iPhone X models with Qualcomm modems “get consistently bigger LTE speeds than Intel’s on America’s best accepted LTE band.” Although there are abstruse three iPhone X models about the world, one is alone fabricated in Japan. So Cellular Insights activated the added two on LTE Bandage 4, which PCMag explains is the bandage acclimated by every above US carrier except for Sprint.
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You can see the abounding after-effects over at PCMag, but while the after-effects appearance that Qualcomm is still in the lead, there is now “a appreciably abate aberration amid the two.” We already apperceive that Apple has bedridden assertive appearance of the Qualcomm modem because the Intel modem doesn’t abutment them yet, so the all-embracing achievement of the Qualcomm modem may accept been artificially bound by Apple as well, in adjustment to barrier the differences.
The acceptable account is that no amount which iPhone X you own, you apparently wouldn’t apprehension any aberration amid the two except for in acute circumstances. And because how advancing things accept become amid Qualcomm and Apple in contempo months, there’s a adventitious that the era of the Qualcomm iPhone will anon be over anyway.
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