The race to reduce LTE chip sizes and integrate other components with them, both to optimize the space in smartphones and to make them more power efficient, reveals the complex trade-offs faced by phone makers such as Apple. Apple was criticized by many tech blogs, for example, for not bringing LTE to the iPhone earlier than September 2012. But feature advances have to be weighed against other self-chosen design constraints such as the phone's thinness, weight and battery life.
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for Network World. Twitter: @johnwcoxnww Email: john_cox@nww.com
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