The iPhone 15 Pro Max registered a median 5G download data speed in Q3 that nearly doubled the speed achieved by its predecessor.
We did point out at the start of this week that the iPhone 15 Pro Max had the fastest median 5G downlink and uplink speeds in the U.S. during the third quarter according to Ookla, The big surprise was that the 5G download data speed measured on Apple’s 2023 top-of-the-line iPhone nearly doubled to 251.37Mbps from the previous year’s model. The median 5G download data speed for the iPhone 14 Pro Max, measured during the second quarter of 2023 (just one quarter before the new model was tested), came to 127.83Mbps.What makes this unexpected is that the iPhone 15 series uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X70 5G modem chip which the chip designer said is capable of a 24% speed hike over the Snapdragon X65 5G modem chip that the 2022 iPhone models were equipped with.
