“At first blush, iFixit’s tech autopsy on the iPhone 8 didn’t reveal anything particularly notable, besides some different screws and a way to remove the glass backing,” Mat Smith writes for Engadget. “But then when it came to the laundry list of chips and modems all crammed inside Apple’s latest smartphones, we noticed something.”
“It looks like the company has made its first gigabit LTE phone, capable of substantially faster download speeds,” Smith writes. “Or at least, the iPhone 8 could have, if it had everything else.”
Smith writes, “The iPhone 8 (according to iFixit’s teardown) doesn’t appear to have the antennas necessary to harness gigabit LTE.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: By the time most users need/want to be able to utilize gigabit LTE, Apple will have it available in iPhones.
so sick of wall street fake apple news, zero ethics to spawn and capitalize on panic and inaccurate disinformation.
Watch your data allocation instantly evaporate with Gigabit LTE. There one minute, gone the next. And then everybody will be bitching and moaning and the carriers will be laughing.
Isn’t that what our unlimited data plans are for?