Apple has just revealed the iPhone 16th, its new budget phone to replace the iPhone Se aged, but it’s more than a simple cheaper vision of the iPhone 16, because it comes with a whole new component: the Cellular modem C1.
This is the very first Apple modem chip created for an iPhone and brand which could be a major movement of the use of Qualcomm modem chips, allowing the Cupertino crew to have a greater control On iPhone equipment at a granular level.
We do not have a large amount of information on the C1 modem chip. However, Apple has boasted that it is “the most efficient modem in power of all time on an iPhone, offering rapid and reliable 5G cell connectivity”.
A quick and reliable 5G connection is to be expected, especially when the iPhone 16th is a phone of $ 599 / 3,599 / at $ 999, it is therefore not a competitor Slam-Dunk for our best list of cheap phones, from the less in its current content. But what attracted my attention was the demand for power efficiency.
Incredibly, I live in a part of London which has not yet obtained the Internet fiber connectivity, so when it comes to doing everything that requires a lot of bandwidth, let’s say by downloading a PS5 or Xbox Series X game, I have to attach my iPhone 16 pro max to press the faster 5G connection.
It is until I look at the quantity of battery engulfed in the use of sustained 5G data transfer, and the phone becomes rather grilled to the touch.
If the C1 can considerably improve energy efficiency, we could see the iPhone 16th, and perhaps the family of the iPhone 17 as rumor, fighter by sliding less battery juice and becoming less hot under The silicon necklace.
Overall, we have been able to see that iPhones are improving the life of the battery life already solid that Apple phones tend to offer, although they are far from the most durable smartphones. At a time when we see demanding tools and features on AI appear in the best phones, an improvement in energy efficiency will become more important.
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Another interesting point that appeared when I dug the announcement of Apple 16th 16th is that the combination of the new C1 chip and the A18 chip, which can be found in the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, allowed a new internal design with the iPhone 16th.
Apple has not come into details here, but as in the world of cars, in particular Formula 1, new packaging methods in components can lead to more effective conceptions and potentially improved performance.
Or a new internal design for iPhones could produce new material features; Perhaps with new generation iPhones, we could obtain a dedicated graphic processing unit distinct from the A18 chip which could bring enormous graphic power to the overeating games and other graphically demanding tasks on iPhones.
It’s just me who thinks, of course. But if nothing else, a new internal design could give more compact and thinner iPhones.
Thus, while a new modem chip designed internally is perhaps not the most exciting of the new Apple components, this could be a more important affair for future iPhones that one might first think.
