Qualcomm paid for a study that says its modems beat Apple’s C1

Apple launched C1, its first in-house 5G modem, earlier this year with the iPhone 16e and early findings suggested it performed well against Qualcomm’s own modems. Now a new study says otherwise—but with the huge asterisk that it was paid for by Qualcomm. New study shows C1 getting handily beat, but the details deserve more attention Cellular Insights was commissioned by Qualcomm to perform a study of the iPhone 16e’s C1 modem against two Android smartphones with Qualcomm modems. You can read the executive summary here, and the full report here. The report makes some big claims that seem to indicate a huge advantage for Qualcomm’s modems. For example, the following two stats are mentioned: Download speeds: Android devices were 34.3% to 35.2% faster Android devices were Upload speeds: Android devices were 81.4% to 91.0% faster We’ve previously seen through an Ookla study that Apple’s C1 actually has an advantage. How can both things be true? It’s not entirely clear, but one poss ... Read full article.