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Updated iPod Touch to Carry 1136x640 Display, 32-Nanometer A5 Chip?
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You can say a lot about optimization, see video game consoles.
That's because it's trying to read the Flash file instead of just underlying h.264. Find a version of Firefox that works on PowerPC, like TenFourFox and opt into the HTML5 version of YouTube. Also try to get your QuickTime player updated to the max it can go for the codec.
Just raw numbers wise the A5s are about where the G4 laptops where 8 or 9 years ago, and that includes graphics processors.
No. I pay the 650 and then choose the mobile package i desire, which is not the one it comes with the iPhone. I pay 25 euros a month for 1gb data, unlimited text and plenty of everything else included. Im not from usa though.
I dont get it, if you buy it outright why cant you chuck it on whatever plan you want? Are you in the states? Can you not do this at all?
Options in the States for data are limited and expensive. They are cash cows for the carriers.
Good point. Tried TenFourFox and HTML5 for YouTube earlier this year but the iBook can't do YouTube anymore. I'm not entirely clear as to why this is the case and yet I can watch a DVD on it with no issues. Still, my bet is my iBook was surpassed by the 4th gen iPod Touch which was released two years ago. 20 years ago that was super computer speed and now it is packed into a $200 music player. Crazy.
The US cell market is totally crap and stacked against the consumer. If your in Europe or another region with a more divers market, keep in mind where you have many national carriers we have at best three national carriers.
Worse, your "national" carriers are covering areas no bigger then some of our smaller territories (states). Try to think of it this way. What if Europe only had three carries for the whole of the continent, and the only consumer laws they had to follow we're those of the EU alone and that your individual nation had no say.
Next time you look at map of the US make sure it the state boundaries clearly defend. Then pretended like each state was its own nation. That should help give you an idea of the scale and problem were having with our cell companies.
In sort we have two major Mega-Corps that cross "national" boundaries and engage in price fixing with their subsidiaries in each "nation". And this is 100% legal and even accepted practice. Substitute nation for state, and you have the US cell market in a nutshell.
My dad has my old PPC Mac mini and he has the same problems with Youtube (and flash video in general). Youtube used to play without a hitch a few years ago when I had this same machine (I'm talking about 360P videos here).
One solution I found is to use some version of ClickToFlash that enables playing Youtube videos in the Quicktime Player, which does work well. That feature has been a little buggy though.
I really thought that if they brought out an iPad mini that the touch would serve no purpose and be discontinued. Seems like an awful lot of overlap. It will be interesting to see if they release a new iPad mini and/or iPod touch.
Yes, because the iPod Touch and the iPad mini share the same form factor.
You're probably not too far off. Anything more is just waay too convoluted for a company that prides itself on simplicity. We'll know soon!
Yup! I use my iPod Touch as my phone, and my current 4th-gen 8GB is a tad small, so I'll definitely be buying the new one when it's announced.
You really think the iPhone would get a quad-core CPU before the iPad? In my mind, it would make much more sense for the larger device to get more power first.
Much of current technology is overkill. The reason we add certain hardware is so that later on, the software will be able to use its full potential. I can think of so many examples where something might be considered "overkill," but if we never pushed the boundaries, where would technology be?
Yessss
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If anything, the iPhone overlaps with the iPod touch. I can't fit an iPad in my pocket.
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I really thought that if they brought out an iPad mini that the touch would serve no purpose and be discontinued. Seems like an awful lot of overlap. It will be interesting to see if they release a new iPad mini and/or iPod touch.
If anything, the iPhone overlaps with the iPod touch. I can't fit an iPad in my pocket.
Ok then, I guess I have to get more specific. The A5x is too large and too hot. It was hacked together for the specific purpose of running the new retina screen on the new iPad. Nothing more. It is not the right SOC for an iPhone. We will not be seeing an A5x in the iPhone 5.
Wait... 32 nanometers? Does that refer to the width of the chip its self or am I missing something?
Nope, the actual etchings in the chip.
Edit: I'm sure I said that wrong so here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32_nanometer
You say the A5X is too large and generates too much heat. I agree with that, but only with the A5X in its current state.
If the A5 was never touched, then it too would probably not work well in an iPod touch. And this whole post comes from that changing with a die shrink of the A5. So why are you writing off the idea of a die shrink on the A5X so quickly when there are already so many rumors of a die shrink on the A5? I hope I am not coming across as rude, I am just curious as to what your personal opinion is on this topic.
Also, since you don't think the new iPhone will get the A5X, what do you think it will get? A6?
If so, that would go against the CPU update history Apple has had for the last few years. They implement a new CPU in the iPad, then bring a modified version of it to the iPhone for increased battery life and less heat. What evidence has popped up indicating that Apple is about to change that? Again, I am genuinely just trying to get multiple perspectives on this.
And if you do think the new iPhone will get an "A6" or whatever you want to call it, why do you think Apple will be implementing a new CPU in a phone before a tablet? Aren't tablets the devices that are supposed to have more CPU power? Why give it to a smaller device before the iPad?
Also, do you think that if we do see an A6 it will be quad-core CPU and dual-core GPU (you said quad-core GPU would be overkill)? I have read stuff about how the A15 (that may be wrong) has not really been released in high enough quantity, same thing with the updated GPU. So why would a cell phone get quad-core before a tablet? And considering people are more likely to play games on a phone than render videos, wouldn't an update to the GPU make more sense than an update to the CPU?
EDIT: To be more specific, I had to look it up and I was referring to the ARM Cortex A15 CPUs and the PowerVR Series 6 GPU.
Do you realize that you are the only person here that thinks it will be an A5x?
It may very will be an A5 variant, but it will be die shrunk and it will not have 4 GPUs.
If you shrink the die and remove any of the GPU cores, it will not be called an A5x anymore.
All the A5 naming is mostly meaningless anyway...just Apple jargon.
Going to sleep. We'll see what it is tomorrow.
It may very will be an A5 variant, but it will be die shrunk and it will not have 4 GPUs.
If you shrink the die and remove any of the GPU cores, it will not be called an A5x anymore.
All the A5 naming is mostly meaningless anyway...just Apple jargon.
Going to sleep. We'll see what it is tomorrow.
I would buy the iPad mini not the Touch!
Hi, i am not sure if i should buy the ipod touch or if i wait as per dource until the ipad mini will be released ! If it takes just a few weeks until the ipad mini will be released i think i will wait. The price is the same i think!
Hi, i am not sure if i should buy the ipod touch or if i wait as per dource until the ipad mini will be released ! If it takes just a few weeks until the ipad mini will be released i think i will wait. The price is the same i think!
Well, there is no reason it shouldn't, maybe there were some supply issues which didn't allow it to be used in the iPad. Either way, a quad-core CPU is unnecessary for a phone
Again, the whole idea of something being unnecessary and thus being the reason something isn't included is absolutely ridiculous. When has our society ever followed that when it comes to technology?