Qualcomm paid for a study that says its modems beat Apple’s C1<div class="feat-image">

</div><p>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.</p>
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Qualcomm paid for a study that says its modems beat Apple’s C1