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The iPhone 16e proves we do need Qualcomm for 5G in North America
There is a reason it costs less.
The 16e is the first iPhone that uses Apple's new in-house C1 5G modem, which the company developed after a lot of expensive R&D and buying out Intel's 5G business. That means two things — it will never get the hyper-fast 5G speeds we were promised and you might have seen yourself, and the network coverage in many places will be sub-par or fallback to LTE (4G). Apple does not want its "budget" phone to be worse than a $300 OnePlus Nord when it comes to network performance, but it will in places like New York or Chicago.
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