This is normally Brian's beat but with him busy putting the finishing touches on his review of HTC's One, I thought I'd help out. We're still seeing (and hearing) a lot of confusion about what T-Mobile announced earlier this week with regards to existing and future iPhone support on its network. Brian already went through all of this in his excellent article on the topic, but seeing continued confusion I thought I'd whip up a few diagrams to help explain. For the purposes of this article I'm focusing on compatibility for the current AT&T iPhone 5 (hardware model A1428) as well as the new unlocked iPhone 5 (also hardware model A1428) that will be shipping start April 12. The easiest question to answer is will existing...
Apple to Ship Updated A1428 iPhone 5 With AWS WCDMA Enabled for T-Mobile USA
Back when I did my Qualcomm modems and transceivers piece, I gained a deeper understanding about the cellular RF engineering side of the handset puzzle. Specifically, how an OEM...
30 by Brian Klug on 3/26/2013
Element Case Sector 5 for iPhone 5 Review
Most of the AnandTech crew seems to be averse to putting cases on their phones for a variety of different reasons. I’m still of the persuasion where I want...
42 by Brian Klug on 1/26/2013
The iPhone 5 Review
The last significant redesign of the iPhone platform came in 2010 with the iPhone 4. It was an update that literally touched all aspects of the device, from SoC...
278 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Brian Klug & Vivek Gowri on 10/16/2012
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 6
Sorry for the delay this week! With Brian in Seoul, me getting back from NYC and Ian in London it was difficult to all get together for our usual...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/27/2012
The iPhone 5 Display: Thoroughly Analyzed
When Apple rolled out the iPhone 5, they announced that it had a full sRGB gamut, which the new iPad almost achieves and would be a substantial improvement over...
99 by Chris Heinonen on 9/27/2012
The iPhone 5 Performance Preview
This morning we finally got our hands on Apple's iPhone 5. While we are eager to get started on battery life testing, that'll happen late tonight after a full...
238 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/21/2012
Apple A6 Die Revealed: 3-core GPU, < 100mm^2
Our good friends at UBM TechInsights sent over the first diffusion images of Apple's new A6 SoC. It's still too early to tell a lot but we have confirmation...
61 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/21/2012
iPhone 5/A6 SunSpider Performance: Faster than Intel's Atom Z2460
The first iPhone 5 reviews have lifted, confirming the leaked Geekbench data we saw in our earlier post. Apple's A6 appears to feature two custom ARM cores running at...
109 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/19/2012
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 5
Despite crazy travel schedules and Brian being in South Korea, we managed to carve out nearly 2 hours across time zones to discuss the iPhone 5. Brian goes over...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/17/2012
Analyzing the iPhone 5 Geekbench Results
While working on our Haswell piece, I've been religiously checking the Geekbench and GLBenchmark results browsers to see if anyone ran either benchmark and decided to tap upload. This...
118 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/16/2012
iPhone 5 Memory Size and Speed Revealed: 1GB LPDDR2-1066
Quick analysis of the A6 SoC photos from the iPhone 5 launch event tells us all we need to know about the memory interface, speed and bandwidth of the...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/15/2012
The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead
When Apple announced the iPhone 5, Phil Schiller officially announced what had leaked several days earlier: the phone is powered by Apple's new A6 SoC. As always, Apple didn't...
162 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2012
Why the iPhone 5 Lacks Support for Simultaneous Voice and LTE or EVDO (SVLTE, SVDO)
So we've seen the new iPhone, and had a chance to briefly play with it at the demo room, but as I've learned in the past so many times...
88 by Brian Klug on 9/14/2012
New iPod Touch Leads Revamped iPod Lineup
It’s been a pretty action-packed day for Apple. While the star of today’s event was undoubtedly the new iPhone 5, the Cupertino giant also gave the iPod lineup an...
22 by Vivek Gowri on 9/12/2012
iPhone 5 Hands On Pics and Video - Updated: With Impressions
We just spent a good amount of time with the iPhone 5. The phone feels very thin and light (obviously), and the improvement in performance is very noticeable compared...
91 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/12/2012
Apple iPhone 5: Announced
Apple announced its 6th generation iPhone, the iPhone 5, at a special event in San Francisco this morning. The iPhone 5 brings a huge list of improvements. Apple unexpectedly...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2012
Apple's iPhone 5 Uses A6 SoC
This one caught us off guard, but Apple just announced the A6 SoC powering the new iPhone 5 features 2x faster CPU and GPU performance compared to the iPhone...
118 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2012