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Apple's first custom designed modem did surprisingly well in benchmarks


Ookla, the company behind Speedtest, ran the iPhone 16e’s modem through its paces. The benchmark tests were surprisingly impressive when compared against the standard Qualcomm chip.

Ookla, the company behind Speedtest, just ran the C1 modem through a series of benchmark tests and it did surprisingly well, even when compared to the Qualcomm chips that accompany the pricier iPhone 16 handsets. The company found that the iPhone 16e offered average download speeds of 560Mbps for the top 90th percentile of users on AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. So Apple’s investment to build an in-house modem looks to have been a worthy endeavor, just like those speedy M-series chips.

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