Wireless in the iPhone 7: Everything you need to knowHow do the iPhone 7's wireless features compare to previous versions?
The iPhone 7 is here, and it's new in a number of ways. But one of the ways in which it is improved was largely glossed-over during the keynote: it now supports faster wireless speeds.
While there isn't as drastic an improvement this year over previous years, there are still some significant cellular-related upgrades inside the chassis.
The 450 club
The iPhone 7 now supports maximum speeds of up to 450Mbps, which is a 50% jump over the iPhone 6s. Specifically, the new iPhone is a Category 10 device, which means that in addition to being able to reach those astronomical speeds of 450Mbps in the downlink (downloading data from the internet), it is able to reach speeds of 100Mbps in the uplink.
To reach these speeds, the iPhone uses a technology under the LTE standard called carrier aggregation, which combines several wireless channels, or bands, to transmit data to and from a phone. The iPhone 7 supports 3x CA i...
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Wireless in the iPhone 7: Everything you need to know
