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The iPhone SE and iPad Pro don’t have ultra wideband. Here’s why

When Apple spends time to talk up a new technology that it’s excited about, you can bet people pay attention. So last autumn, when the company rolled out its new iPhones, featuring a custom-designed Apple chip, the U1, ears perked up throughout the tech industry.

Spending the time and energy to design and build a specific chip confers immediate importance on ultra wideband, elevating it to the level of other endeavours that have become central to Apple products, such as the M-series motion coprocessors and H-series headphone chips.

And yet, since that initial announcement, Apple

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