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Re:Qualcomm sues Apple for hobbling its iPhone chips to make... by ramshanker on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:31PM (#14090379)
Ok, so is there any credible way to figure out whether somone is buying a Qualcomm iPhone or Intel one?

As a totally noob to state-of-art in mobile modems, I guess Qualcomm chips support the latest specification than Intel one, on paper, but in reality Capex intensive telecom operators are hardly on bleeding edge specification, so performance may very well be equal for the ~2 year cycle-life of a iPhone.

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Re:Qualcomm sues Apple for hobbling its iPhone chips to make... by citrusui on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:17PM (#14091452)
A quick search brings up the following article: https://www.recode.net/2016/9/9/12863302/apple-iphone-7-inte...

To summarize, iPhone 7 models A1660 and A1661 contain Qualcomm modems, whereas models A1778 and A1784 have Intel modems.

(There are two extra iPhone models solid in Japan; A1779 and A1785. I assume they feature Qualcomm.)

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Re:Qualcomm sues Apple for hobbling its iPhone chips to make... by indemnity on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:04AM (#14094904)
Not sure if this is relevant, but my new Intel iPhone 7+ really struggles (1 bar) in areas where the same SIM in my wife's Qualcomm iPhone 6 gets 3-4 bars.

Seems worse with older standards like 3G.

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