One of Apple’s key marketing plays surrounding the upcoming iPhone 17 Air will be that it will be the company’s first device to not just ship with an in-house Wi-Fi chip, but also a custom 5G modem. In a previous report, we mentioned that the ultra-sleek flagship would ship with these two components, but at the time, it was unclear if Apple was going to source the best baseband chip for the iPhone 17 Air or re-use a part that already exists in an existing model. Turns out that it is the latter, and while there are some useful scenarios of the device housing the C1 modem, the drawback is that, like the iPhone 16e , it will miss out on mmWave network support.

A switch from a Qualcomm 5G modem to the C1 on the iPhone 17 Air could result in better battery life, just like it did with the iPh

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