The iPhone SE and iPad Pro don’t have ultra wideband. Here’s why
May 15, 2020
3 minutes
Dan Moren reports
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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