After months of anticipation, Apple debuted the successor to the iPhone SE (2022) dubbed the iPhone 16e on Wednesday. The telephone comes with a number of firsts within the firm’s reasonably priced iPhone lineup, together with an OLED show, a notch design with Face ID, and help for Apple Intelligence. Nonetheless, a key addition which surprisingly solely obtained a number of traces of point out within the official press launch and thus, may need been neglected by many, is Apple’s new proprietary C1 modem which powers the mobile connectivity on the iPhone 16e.
Apple C1 Chip
The C1 chip is the fruits of Apple spending billions of {dollars} over a few years in a bid to cut back its reliance on Qualcomm for sourcing 5G modems. Whereas it was anticipated to be launched a number of years in the past following the corporate’s acquisition of Intel’s modem enterprise in 2019, the event has again and again been delayed attributable to varied elements. This resulted within the iPhone maker extending its take care of Qualcomm final yr to outsource the 5G modems for the iPhone until 2026.
Apple claims the brand new C1 modem is the primary in its class to be designed by the corporate in-house and is the “most power-efficient modem ever” on an iPhone while sustaining quick and dependable 5G mobile connectivity. The improved effectivity of the modem, coupled with the iPhone 16e’s inside design and iOS 18’s superior energy administration, is alleged to end in “extraordinary” battery life on the brand new iPhone; as much as 26 hours of video playback, based on Apple.
Compared, the bottom iPhone 16 is claimed to ship as much as 22 hours of video playback on a single cost.
Nonetheless, the iPhone 16e shouldn’t be with out its caveats. A have a look at the technical specs of the telephone reveals that it lacks help for mmWave — the extraordinarily excessive frequency (EHF) band. This claim was first made by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman a number of days in the past and Apple’s launch confirms it. Thus, its absence might end in slower obtain and add speeds, no less than on paper.
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