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iPhone 7 Plus: A Tale of Two Personalities
Cellular Insights ^ | October 20, 2016

Posted on 10/20/2016 1:09:37 PM PDT by Swordmaker


Like clockwork, every September the entire tech world gets excited for the newest Apple device. The combination of a premium build, unmatched system performance, and tightly integrated software and services delivers what’s considered to be the gold standard in smartphone user experience.

Over the past five years, Apple’s modem supplier was Qualcomm, but this year, Apple has taken a different approach with the decision to source two instead of one baseband chipset suppliers: Qualcomm and Intel. This created two distinct RF SKUs, one limited to GSM/WCDMA/LTE support (A1778, A1784), powered by Intel’s modem, and one with GSM/CDMA/WCDMA/TD-SCDMA/LTE support (A1660, A1661) powered by Qualcomm’s modem.

(Excerpt) Read more at cellularinsights.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: applepinglist; iphone7; modem; modemgate
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1 posted on 10/20/2016 1:09:37 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: dayglored; ShadowAce; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...
Apple iPhone 7 Modem Gate? Apple has contracted with both Qualcomm and Intel to supply the modems for its newest model iPhone 7 and 7 plus, however, the two modems have distinctly different capabilities and one is a better choice than the other in performance. According to testing by Cellular Insights, the Qualcomm modem, supplied in iPhones with the A1660 and A1661 SKUs, in addition to covering more Cellular Protocols, has better performance than the Intel modem, supplied with iPhones with the A1778 and A1784 SKUs. Both modems are still excellent modems, but you might want to check that SKU before you purchase and get the better quality one when buying your iPhone 7. — PING!


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2 posted on 10/20/2016 1:16:36 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker
Like clockwork, every September the entire tech world gets excited for the newest Apple device.

Uh, no. Skipped the rest. No tingle, no excitement. Carry on, then.

3 posted on 10/20/2016 1:25:21 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Moltke

So you weren’t excited, but came in to tell everyone you aren’t excited? Seems kind of wasteful and inefficient.


4 posted on 10/20/2016 1:35:40 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Swordmaker

Apple probably only sells Qualcomm equipped models to Democrats.


5 posted on 10/20/2016 1:41:48 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

This stuff is interesting to look at, and extremely insidious. Apple is as liberal as the day is long, no doubt there, but Microsoft, on the other hand, takes all the money it can get from anyone, and gives big chunks to the Ford Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations which...between them gave $100 million to...Black Lives Matter just this past August. $100 million. If I am not mistaken

I think it is perfectly appropriate to skewer Apple for their liberalism, but anyone who thinks Microsoft is in any way, shape, form, or fashion better, is fooling themselves.

I haven’t looked, but it might even be possible the greedy Apple is keeping more of its profits for itself, rather than giving them in larger amounts to causes like The Ford Foundation (pikers with only $10 billion to hand out to places like Planned Parenthood, BLM, etc), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ($27 Billion worth there to give money to people like the Occupy movement and BLM) or the Soros Open Society organizations.

Just food for thought.


6 posted on 10/20/2016 2:04:38 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: rlmorel
So you weren’t excited, but came in to tell everyone you aren’t excited?

Yep.

Seems kind of wasteful and inefficient.

Pointing out over-the-top hyperbole is never wasteful nor inefficient. Thinking freely is always liberating.

Have a great Apple-regulated day. ;-)

7 posted on 10/20/2016 2:06:37 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Moltke

We would probably call you a “sea gull poster” then.


8 posted on 10/20/2016 2:08:39 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

By the way, I wasn’t picking on your comment per se, I thought it was a pretty funny one...just pointing out that these things are all intertwined.


9 posted on 10/20/2016 2:10:15 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Swordmaker

Bookmark


10 posted on 10/20/2016 2:15:03 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Swordmaker

Thanks. iPhone 7+ on order. Got in on the $649 rebate on the last day.


11 posted on 10/20/2016 2:18:02 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: rlmorel

LOL. There’s a blast from the past. Haven’t read that here for seems like years.


12 posted on 10/20/2016 2:49:11 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Swordmaker

Good information Swordmaker -— thanks for posting.


13 posted on 10/20/2016 3:47:05 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: rlmorel

You don’t see Microsoft being promoted by cults. That’s the big difference.

They really have a completely different operating principle.

Bill Gates sucks but he’s gone.


14 posted on 10/20/2016 4:11:00 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Swordmaker
Like clockwork, every September the entire tech world gets excited for the newest Apple device.

That was several years ago, culminating around the iPhone 4S days. No one, in or out of the tech world, gets too excited over Apple's offerings in these Tim Cook days.
15 posted on 10/20/2016 4:31:37 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Apple probably only sells Qualcomm equipped models to Democrats.

Well, as proof of your theory, my iPhone 7 Plus is the A1784. . . the Intel Modem model (Still works great, though) . . . and I am a life long, very conservative Republican. One data point proving your thesis. Rats.

16 posted on 10/20/2016 8:08:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Bill Gates sucks but he’s gone.

Not as gone as Steve Jobs. . . instead Bill Gates is out giving away his money he gets from Microsoft on Liberal projects such as Common Core and Planned Parent Hoods.

17 posted on 10/20/2016 8:12:00 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Ahh yes, gone, but his spirit remains.


18 posted on 10/20/2016 8:40:55 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Moltke

True...it is a blast from the past. Ah well. We are all that now and again.


19 posted on 10/20/2016 8:42:06 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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We would probably call you a “sea gull poster” then. - rlmorel
LOL. There’s a blast from the past. Haven’t read that here for seems like years.
True...it is a blast from the past. Ah well. We are all that now and again. - rlmorel
Way things are going, I was thinking I’d be out of newbie status pretty soon - but I don’t remember that expression at all. Hmmm.

20 posted on 10/22/2016 7:11:45 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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