Apple announced at its fall 2019 event that the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max will be released on September 20 and it was expected for some technical and non-technical reasons.
There are different reasons for this:
- Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a 2014 interview that Apple’s “objective has never been to be first” but the Best. So Apple likes to take its time developing new futuristic technologies to create a 5G-capable phone before the 5G network is fully developed.
- Apple sill growing “gigabit-class LTE “devices, so there is still a room in LTE development. The original iPhone launched on 2G/Edge when many other phones were 3G capable when it launched in 2007.
- Mobile carriers are still figuring out how to handle 5G, so it may be early to release 5G phones.
- Coverage Consistency issue: the 5G network is expected to be Spotty-Coverage till 2021 and still there’re some indoor coverage issues for some US operators who lanched 5G like Verizon and At&T as they’re still using mmWave technology which can’t meet 4G Coverage.
- iPhone 11 Pro, with its 4×4 MIMO and “faster gigabit-class LTE, will be up to 20 percent faster than the XS and XS Max and it’s enough for customers from Enhanced Mobile Broadband sector (eMBB) and is capable of attaining peak download speeds of at least 1Gbps.
- All 5G chips come from Qualcomm and Apple settled a long-running battle with Qualcomm and agreed to a six-year deal which included several years of agreeing to buy Qualcomm’s modems again.
- Apple hired intel’s staff and just a time to see iPhone supporting 5G with its own modem.