A MAJOR Apple supplier is giving the California firm a discount on iPhone tech – but will that means customers can look forward to cheaper smartphones? One expert told The Sun it’s unlikely that Apple will pass the savings (which could more than £17 per phone) onto Brits. Apple smartphones are notoriously expensive to buy. The top iPhone X model will set you back an incredible £1,149, thanks to its powerful hardware. But Apple is about to make some healthy savings on iPhone models thanks to Qualcomm. Qualcomm is a US tech company that makes smartphone parts, and invented lots of essential phone technologies that let your handset connect to mobile networks. So when phone makers build their handsets, they have to pay Qualcomm a fee so that the handset can connect to a phone network. Qualcomm made loads of money from this thanks to the way it charged phone makers like Apple and Samsung. Rather than setting a flat rate, Qualcomm has been charging Apple a percentage of the value of an iPhone. That means Apple would have to pay more money to let the iPhone connect to phone networks than a company making cheap Android smartphones – even… Read full this story
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