Only Pro models support reasonable speeds for USB-C, up to 10Gbps. Regular iPhones are capped at USB 2.0 rates, up to 480Mbps, which is no faster than Lightning. With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds – with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.
10Gbps is about 20x more than 480Mbs but 8secs times 20 is 160secs which is a lot less than 16minutes so what is going on with this calculation?
With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds
1GB / 10Gbps = 1GB / 1.25GBps = 0.8secs
with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.
I usually don’t like to dogpile onto authors but I went to look at their article history (at least at this outlet) and they look to be almost Invariably Click-bait and or AI Trash.
10Gbps is about 20x more than 480Mbs but 8secs times 20 is 160secs which is a lot less than 16minutes so what is going on with this calculation?
1GB / 10Gbps = 1GB / 1.25GBps = 0.8secs
1GB / 480Mbps = 1GB / 0.48Gbps = 1GB / 0.06GBps = 16.67secs
Wow what a great article, well done.
Only off by a few orders of 10^x.
Typical shit journalism can’t be bothered to look at the units on their calculator.
I usually don’t like to dogpile onto authors but I went to look at their article history (at least at this outlet) and they look to be almost Invariably Click-bait and or AI Trash.
Sounds like the writer confused Mbps with MB/s or something.
But even then it’s kinda weird.
Thanks for showing the math