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Comment by geauxvirtual | Hacker News Reader

Now if they would just admit the Intel modem in the iPhone Xs is garbage.

Seriously!! I have to reboot my iPhone Xs about once a week because it completely fails to search for WiFi successfully ... the system preferences page for connecting to WiFi network just sits at an empty list of networks forever (and sometimes hangs the ui...)

Rebooting the device seems to recover but I hate this.

I have an iPhone 7 with an intel internals. While I did have some minor coverage issues compared to my old 6, it's pretty rock solid otherwise.

7 is even worse than 6? That must suck, because 6 was one of the worst performers in the market.

i’m curious : what kind of things are you doing with your phone to determine that the modem is garbage ??

Not the op, but in NYC walking in and out of the subways is annoying... takes the phone sometimes a minute to re-connect to the cell network. In prior phones w/Qualcomm modems the experience was much faster.

Signal not as strong as previous iPhone 6. Drops to 4G more often in town when this never happened with my iPhone 6.

Since iOS 12.1 update, wireless will just stop sending/receiving data while still showing connection. I will now sporadically lose all cellular signal, until I turn airplane mode on/off, then back to 3 bars.

I've only seen 4 bars on this phone once, at the AT&T store when they gave me a new sim card. Promptly went back to 3 bars when I left the store.

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