The problem of poor iPhone signal has long been the consensus of users and the industry. Starting from the first iPhone, to the iPhone 12 series that entered the 5G era, as well as the iPhone 14 series released last year, users complained that the signal was not good.
Last year, an online post "iPhone users envy Android phones" caused heated discussions, and among the 23 major crimes of the iPhone, the iPhone signal was among them.
How the iPhone signal is, each user feels different, some people can accept it, so it is better to use specific data to show it accurately. Recently, blogger "A Zheng is very hard" tested the signal strength of the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and compared it with the other four models on the market.
The iPhone signal of the five flagship machines is at the bottom, and the network speed is not the worst
The five flagship phones used for testing, in addition to the iPhone 14 Pro Max, the other 4 are: Huawei P60 Pro, Honor Magic5 Pro, OPPO Find X6 Pro and Meizu 20 Pro.
In order to ensure the credibility of the data, the blogger spent more than 10,000 to entrust the authoritative institution Academy of Information and Communications Technology (a scientific research institution directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) to test the call signal sensitivity of five mobile phones, and the test data included signal test and network speed test.
1) Channel test: channel refers to the signal path provided by wired or wireless lines, the function of the channel is to transmit signals, provide a frequency band for the signal to pass.
The three channels tested were LTE FDD Band3 1900, LTE FDD Band3 1575, and LTE FDD Band3 1250.
Channel test results show that Honor Magic5 Pro is the best, OPPO Find X6 Pro, Meizu 20 Pro, Huawei P60 Pro are ranked 2-4 places, and iPhone 14 Pro Max is at the bottom.
The best signal Honor Magic5 Pro is about 2.3 times the signal of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. Even the fourth-place Huawei P60 Pro has a signal of about 1.3 times that of the iPhone Pro Max.
2) Transmission power test, the greater the transmission power, the stronger the signal under weak signals.
The strongest transmission power is still the honor Magic5 Pro, 2-4 are Meizu 20 PRO, Huawei P60 Pro, OPPO Find X6 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max is still ranked last.
The Honor Magic5 Pro transmits about 5 times the power of the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and the fourth OPPO Find X6 Pro has about 1.8 times the transmit power of the iPhone 14 Pro Max.
3) Internet speed test
There are two scenarios for the network speed test, one is an environment with poor signal and the other is an environment with a normal signal.
In the underground garage without 5G and poor signal, the 4G mobile phone Huawei P60 Pro has the fastest download speed, Meizu 20 Pro, OPPO Find X6 Pro second and third, iPhone 14 Pro Max fourth, Honor Magic5 Pro fifth.
The download speed of Huawei P60 Pro is 24.1MBps, which is more than twice that of the iPhone 14 Pro Max (11.2MBps).
In scenic spots with a large number of people and 5G signals, the Huawei P60 Pro download speed (101.6MBps) that only supports 4G ranks at the bottom, and the iPhone 14 Pro Max (432MBps) ranks second.
The data shows that the iPhone 14 Pro Max's signal is indeed the worst of the 5 flagships, but the network speed is not so slow, at least in the poor signal can be tied with the other two, and can rank upstream when the signal is normal.
For mobile phones, the most basic function is to make calls, if even the most basic signal problems cannot be guaranteed, the use experience is definitely not too good. However, this kind of problem occurs in Apple, which pursues user experience, and has lasted for so many years, and the iPhone is still selling better and better, which is incomprehensible.
Apple's self-developed baseband, will it be the savior of iPhone signals?
The current iPhone is actually the same as most Android phones, using Qualcomm baseband, why is the iPhone bad? This pot, apparently Qualcomm does not carry it.
There are no more than two reasons, first of all, Apple's Soc chip is self-developed, and the Snapdragon X65 baseband equipped with the iPhone 14 Pro series is through an external plug-in. The other four flagship phones, the baseband is integrated on the Soc chip, and the Soc chip is also Qualcomm, the natural stability and compatibility are higher, and the signal is better.
The second is the internal design mechanism of the iPhone, which is different from Android phones. After dismantling the mechanism, it was found that the emphasis on industrial design of the iPhone, the priority of antenna design is not as good as other components, many Android mobile phones have specifically strengthened the antenna, of course, the signal will be better.
As we all know, in order to solve the signal problem, Apple has been silently developing its own 5G baseband, which is also to get rid of Qualcomm's limitations in baseband and no longer have to work for Qualcomm.
However, the latest news shows that Apple's self-developed baseband has encountered many obstacles, and it was originally scheduled to be first released on the iPhone SE4 next year, but Apple has extended the iPhone SE4, and as soon as 2025, we can see whether the signal of Apple's self-developed baseband is good.
Self-developed baseband may not be able to become the savior of iPhone signals, if the internal structure and antenna design are not changed, even if the baseband process and performance can match Qualcomm, I am afraid that the improvement of the iPhone signal is also a drop in the bucket, nothing more than to help Apple further reduce the cost of the iPhone.
Netizens complained reasonably! iPhone14PM signal measured data released, the worst of the five flagship machines! Are you using an iPhone or an Android phone, what do you think of the iPhone's signal, is it very buried, or is it acceptable?