You may have seen a recent study where a testing lab (commissioned by Qualcomm) compares Apple’s new C1 cellular modem (in the iPhone 16) to Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon X75 and X80 chips (in two Android phones):
In this study, the Qualcomm chips seem to vastly outperform the Apple chips, especially with respect to upload speeds. But are the tests fair and do the differences actually matter in the real world? This article says “maybe not”: