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Apple's in-house 5G modem could finally
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debut on next year's iPhones that's the
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cult of Mac headline reports indicate
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Apple has spent billions of dollars
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developing its in-house 5G modem but has
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little to show for it this is kind of a
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sad story in 2019 the company acquired
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Intel's 5G modem business for $1 billion
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to get a head start on its development
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efforts but that move reportedly
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backfired with with apple Engineers
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facing issues with Intel's code trying
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to fix the problems as assumingly
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causing other features to break that's
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great this is like the longest story in
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2022 our favorite uh analyst Ming quo
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claimed that Apple's efforts to develop
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the 5G modem had bombed since then
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though the rumor mill has indicated
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Apple's in-house chip could deut on
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devices in 2025 and then in a post on X
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this late last week the analyst CLA same
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guy Ming quo claims that Apple will
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debut its G chip on two iPhone models in
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2025 chip will launch with the iPhone
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se4 in the spring of 2025 followed the
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iPhone 17 slim later in the year that's
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an odd detail to to like the se4 and the
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iPhone 17 slim well what about the what
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about the other iPhones any maybe maybe
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that's why it's going to be so much more
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expensive despite having fewer features
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I bet they're probably just like dipping
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their toes into it you know on the on
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the less important iPhones to their
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bottom line you know if if something
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goes wrong with the iPhone se4 it's like
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well no major loss there you know that
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that's a phone that they sell over a
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period of like five years why why did
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you buy the cheap phone you should have
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bought a good one and if you complain
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about the expensive one then what well
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we can give you an iPhone 17 Pro Max
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instead uh let's see So currently Apple
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sources its 5G chips from Qualcomm and
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you know what a difference the 5G makes
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right in your everyday it's just at
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4G usually yeah that's that's why my
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hair is blown back because when I got
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when I got my iPhone 12 I was so just
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blown away by the by the F power of 5G
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that my life was forever changed yeah
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that was like that was that Year's
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titanium it was just such a marketing
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point and such a nothing when it
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actually arrived in your hands let's see
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in all actuality I don't I don't even
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think my phone plan supports 5G I think
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I'm still on a 4G plan I've I mean a
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seen better than average speeds a couple
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and I've had these things for years now
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uh let's see mostly what I do is the it
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hops between bands and I don't get any
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that's what I love like oh it's it'd be
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so great if it was 5G but then it just
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like eventually fails over to 4G and
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it's like nothing that's great let's see
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uh anyway earlier this year Apple
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extended its modem licensing deal with
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uh Qualcomm Qualcomm until March 2027 do
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we want to hear the rest of this given
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the turbulent development journey of
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Apple's 5G modem it's entirely possible
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that the company will hit a last minute
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roadblock again forcing it to fall back
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on qualcomm's modem again next year even
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if it debuts chip performance might not
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be as good as that from Qualcomm I don't
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know where that comes from I I think
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that's pure speculation on our part I I
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would hope that if Apple switches to its
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own modem that it's actually better and
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offers some kind of some kind of
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Advantage I mean surely it would and
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like you're saying oh this the next the
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next uh Apple silicone silicon thing
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right well so I I haven't actually heard
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much about how a 5G modem would be
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better or worse I mean maybe less of
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that switching but I don't know yeah I
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mean from what I've read they are just
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intensely complicated pieces of silicon
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to develop but you know if if a better
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one would be more battery efficient like
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currently currently the a big problem
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with 5G modems is that they are
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incredibly battery inefficient and
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they're a big Power drain uh like apple
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has a setting and if you go into
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settings where it can uh you can choose
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it to forcibly stick with 5G if a 5G
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connection is available but it warns you
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this is going to have worse battery life
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huh yeah maybe that's it maybe that's a
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great point maybe it'll be like oh uh
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and that makes sense with a SL with a
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slim iPhone right like oh uh because it
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has a less battery uh but it had we
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paired it with this super efficient
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Apple 5G modem now it lasts at least as
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long as the one with the battery that's
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you know a third bigger it's you know
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all these all these kind you they're
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kind of these rumors are kind of
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dovetailing I mean I I will say about
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the iPhone slim because I heard you and
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airone talking about this last week I
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think maybe like the the one part that
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we don't know about the iPhone slim yet
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is what it looks like and you know sure
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it might not have the best camera it
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might not have the best display it might
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use the regular chip instead of the pro
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chip but you know what maybe it just
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looks really damn cool and we don't know
