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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple let's get to the show and it's more news about the upcoming iPhone 8 seen its own Roger Cheng reports apple's next flagship phone may be incapable of tapping into higher speeds offered by wireless carriers why is that you say well you can point blame at its relationship with Intel and Qualcomm gigabit LTE will be a signature feature on many of the top-tier phones this year but the new iPhone may not be one of them that's because Apple designs its own processors but uses modems from both Intel and Qualcomm Intel's latest commercial ready modem won't hit gigabit LTE speeds which could force Apple to slow down the Qualcomm version to make sure all I phones are on the same footing now the Galaxy s8 can do it and so will ten other Android phones but let's rewind and remember the modem issues from the iPhone 7 and 7 plus C back then tests showed the Qualcomm based ones were better performing but on top of that Qualcomm accused Apple of limiting them so they would be on par with the Intel modems now I have an Intel modem iPhone 7 and I can assure you it's never performed as well as my iPhone 6s in these same exact areas I know it's it from day one gigabit LTE networks aren't readily available just yet t-mobile will be the first with gigabit LTE this year but how much faster are they really how about 18 times faster compared to average speeds based on tests by open signals so yeah iPhone you kinda need to get on that now in the tech world the top specs give you bragging rights and it would be a key disadvantage if this is supposed to be the 10th anniversary flagship iPhone but again the phones aren't even out so it's another wait and see situation alright Powermat CEO Elon dubs insky says wireless charging will be a standard feature in the next iPhone was this a C II no no slip-up or was he just talking about the rumors he heard now he's more likely talking about Apple joining the wireless power consortium recently because he later followed it up by saying the company will support whatever wireless charging protocol Apple supports now if you knew you wouldn't be talking like that unless Tim Cook gave you a scolding now also more reports claim that the next iPhone is coming late this time it's Nikkei that says the iPhone 8 may not be in customers hands until late October or November the report says the OLED panel wireless charging components and new circuit boards are some of the reasons behind the production problems I say take your time Apple if you really want to make a statement then you need to get this one right because there's that thing called the galaxy s 8 right now and if you want to look at some more Duty concepts of what the next iPhone could look like at least the perfect one we're hoping for without the touch ID on the back Benjamin Gaskin gives us the iPhone most of you are hoping happens so yeah Apple make it happen and can you believe it back-to-back weeks with an I work story Apple is updated the apps for both Mac OS and iOS with stability improvements the update also adds a number keyboard for the iPad reducing the need to switch keyboards I even challenged you all on our Apple bytes extra crunchy audio podcast to let me know how many of you actually use I works specifically pages yeah I got two responses one of them came from writer Sam Sokol so either not many of you are really using it as your go-to or no one listens to the Apple byte extra crunchy and that's a sad Apple alright in case you really care writers reports Apple has delayed their carpool karaoke spin-off show for the Apple music service until later this year without any specific reason Apple was reportedly set to throw a primer party last month but the event was also delayed last minute without an explanation you know I just think apples trying to be all mysterious again so we can care more about this or maybe not all right that's going to do it for this week you can email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at Brian Tong thanks much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple