Comments on: Is Apple working on a next-gen iPhone with customized multi-core chips?

By: alex

alex — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:16:56 +0000

who cares about graphics i want a video camera and multimedia messaging

By: davesmall

davesmall — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:51:27 +0000

I think Apple wants to make it much more difficult for competitors to copy their designs. One way to do that it so get away from using off-the-shelf processors and chipsets. I think they’re going to up the ante on performance, graphics, and battery life.

The iPhone Nano sounds a wet dream on the part of Wall Street financial bloggers and not something that Apple would be likely to produce. The present iPhone screen is about the smallest possible without making the touch screen keyboard too cramped for practical use. Bigger is better when it comes to screen size.

Even Apple must be surprised with the incredible reception given to the online App Store for iPhone applications. I personally have about 100 or so on my own iPhone (and I don’t do games). Developers are attracted to the iPhone much like June Bugs are attracted to headlights. The App Store is and engine that can drive their iPhone business much like iTunes drives their iPod business. Competitors can come up with something that looks a bit like an iPhone but they’ll have trouble offering anything remotely approaching the amazing App Store.

As the number of useful apps on your iphone increases, so does the frequency of use and the load on your battery. The good news is that people love their iPhones and are using them for many tasks. The bad news is that heavy usage means a greater and greater challenge to achieve long lasting battery life.

By: Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:00:38 +0000

Great article Will, load of original content here and I like how you pieced together various bits of news to offer up a truly probably hypothesis.

We can only wish it comes true!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:19:04 +0000

Please, don’t mix up the current PowerVR SGX with the forthcoming PowerVR SGX543. Only the latter is multi-core capable.

Last month, TGDaily reported that: “Imagination has just begun to license the 543 design, which means that it will take about 18 months for phones that are equipped with the chip to become available for sale. The next iPhone may not get this chip, but rely on the current SGX version (which is a significant step up from the MBX chip.)”

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40899/135/

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:56:56 +0000

It seems as imagination technologies are becoming mission critical for apples iphone developments. Wondering what chips their competition have on hand by now.

By: Hammer

Hammer — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:17:22 +0000

I doubt that any of this tech would hit the touch first. Nor do I see a netbook on the horizon. The iphone is Apple’s netbook, for now. Constable Odo is accurate in foreseeing that the new tech will be in the new iphone, not in a smaller package. I don’t know why people keep talking about the Nano iPhone. It doesn’t exist, at least not from Apple. Sure there are a lot of Chinese knockoffs, but that just goes to show how popular the device is in China. Apple does need to make a more powerful iPhone due to more and more desktop apps being ported to the device. It blows away the other mobile platforms in how easy it is to create an app, plus it’s more powerful since it’s not stripped down so much as say Windows Mobile.

Give it another year and you will see Microsoft apps on the app store.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:04:46 +0000

This would certainly fall in line with the rumor that the new iPhone will have video conferencing capabilities.

I am truly hoping for a larger Touch. In the 9″-13″ range. It would be Apple’s netbook/gaming device, and it would be a game changer for both markets. Could you imagine a 9″ Touch that had the capability to play Call of Duty 5, with motion control?………I smell a very hot trend here.

By: Constable Odo

Constable Odo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:54:20 +0000

I thought Tim Cook had said Apple wouldn’t be introducing a Nano-class handset. Most of this article points to increased processing speeds and graphics handling. Seems like this stuff would be more useful to an upgraded current iPhone and maybe even a more expensive model. I hope Apple doesn’t have to waste it’s time and technology on some low-end handsets. It doesn’t seem like there’d be much profit in that direction. I want to see Apple continue to dominate the high-end.