In any case, if you want to get Apple’s cutting edge C1, you’ll need to buy the iPhone 17 Air or iPhone 16e. Or wait until next year, when the full iPhone 18 lineup is expected to adopt a new ...

Apple has announced the iPhone 16E, which uses the C1, its first in-house modem, in a bid to start ending its reliance on Qualcomm 5G chips. Apple starts weaning itself off of Qualcomm’s 5G chips.

With the launch of iPhone 16e, we also saw the launch of something far more important — Apple's custom C1 modem. Here's what means and why you should care about it.

Apple’s C1 modem in the iPhone 16e outperforms the iPhone 16’s Qualcomm modem in many key benchmarks, per a new study of real-world data. Skip to main content. Toggle main menu ...

The first real-world tests of Apple's C1 modem in the iPhone 16e say that has comparable performance to previous 5G chips, but achieves that with significantly less battery power.

The C1 supports most of the existing spectrum and bands of the modems found in Apple’s iPhone 16 line, including 4G LTE and 5G, with 4×4 MIMO. It is missing Dual-Carrier HSDPA and mmWave.

According to Apple, the C1 is the most power efficient modem that's been included in an iPhone to date, and that's the edge that the C1 has over Qualcomm's modems. The ‌iPhone 16e‌ has the ...

With the C1 modem, Apple was able to increase efficiency, and it draws less power than Qualcomm modems. Apple says the C1 is the most efficient modem that's ever been used in an iPhone, and the ...