iPhone X 2018 iPhones all Intel Modems? (a1863-1865 last of the Qualcomm modems?)

[Bootleg Gucci]

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/...-intel-cellular-modems-qualcomm-legal-dispute

So if all the new iPhone models this year have non-Qualcomm modems, I suppose Intel or whichever rival modem maker must be paying licensing royalties to Qualcomm since they hold key wireless patents beyond CDMA.

On the bright side, this should put to rest any modem-gate debates (Verizon/sim free model vs. GSM AT&T/T-Mobile Model). Apple hopefully won’t be ‘nerfing any performance advantages of one model vs another.

 

[airjay75]

Cue the people who upgrade from a prior-year Qualcomm model to a 2018 Intel model about how their service is suddenly awful.

(For the record, I think there is probably some truth to the fact that Qualcomm has previously made better modems than Intel, but I think the differences in performance have been vastly exaggerated by many people.)

 

[Agent OrangeZ]

This might be the last year we see CDMA in an iPhone. Verizon will be shutting down their CDMA by the end of 2019, and if the Sprint/T-Mobile merger gets approved, then Sprint can easily move to T-Mobile's LTE network for VoLTE. Verizon is already selling some LTE-only phones.