> between an iPod Touch and an iPhone — essentially an iPod Touch with a cellular connection  Is this really the case? Is the BOM for these two so similar th

> between an iPod Touch and an iPhone — essentially an iPod Touch with a cellular connection  Is this really the case? Is the BOM for these two so similar that the primary difference is the cellular RF-front end and DSP/etc for running the baseband stack? > According to Qualcomm, Apple throttled Qualcomm’s modem by not making use of advanced features — specifically, 256-QAM and 4x4 MIMO — that increase data rates by 33%. Despite this maneuver, which made Intel’s modem look better, the Qualcomm modem still outperformed the Intel part. Does iphone 7 really suffer slower throughput when compared with other qualcomm-based phones?