Doe this mean the new iPhone won't be released until October??
I believe that October/November has been the buzz and prediction for almost a year now.
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Sharp President Confirms Shipments of Displays for New iPhone this Month
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I believe that October/November has been the buzz and prediction for almost a year now.
Apple doesn't need more megapixels. "more" megapixels is smoke and mirrors - especially since no consumer is typically printing larger than 5x7 or at all. And image quality isn't about megapixels anymore anyway. It's about the lens and imaging sensor size.
No they won't. Business is business. Apple has a contract with Samsung and Samsung produces several key components which Apple enjoys a great price on. Samsung sells a lot to Apple. It's a win-win regardless of other litigation that is going on.
Who would you trust to keep a secret? If nothing else, it promotes survival of the fittest.
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Then go for it! Your 'vote' will be noted by Apple and help drive future development direction.
enough of the trolling
If you don't like me responding to a question. Too bad for you.
Get it out of your head. You're not getting anything better than the iPad's SoC in the new iPhone, no matter what it ends up being. They could just move the A5X to a smaller process to reduce its size, heat dissipation and power usage. That is the most you're getting.
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It promotes corporatism, where the smaller 3rd parties are left with little and the scrapes and the big boys get to keep their big boy status by being privilege by other big boys.
That you think this has anything to do with "fittest" is beyond me. Some of the best and most innovative stuff on iOS doesn't even come from the likes of the big players. EA has yet to give us anything meaningful beyond rehashed crap. Squaresoft keeps porting old software over or making plain bad games (which is surprising in their case), Epic is riding their "Infinity Blade" game which is nothing more than bathroom entertainment (that's where I play it most anyway). And they charge an arm and a leg for it compared to the smaller players.
No, Apple just wouldn't out a secret like that and it does hurt "on launch" titles. No one can be ready except who Apple wants to be ready and that's never the small fry innovative guy. It's big corporate toady.
Regardless of whether it's a new SoC or not, the iPhone is not getting the A5X in any variation. The 45nm A5X is dead after the 3rd gen iPad. The only way it will stick around is if that's the version they keep selling after they introduce the next iPad.
The 543MP4 is a brute force approach only necessitated by the iPad's retina screen. By the time they release the next iPad, they can do Rogue and do away with the 543. The new iPhone with its incremental resolution increase has no need for that much power, much less have any space physically, thermally or in the power budget.
I'd put the iPhone getting a new SoC at 50/50, but it won't be the A5X.
Yea "perfection"
and the imac g4 was perfection but then we had the g5 and the iphone 3g was "perfect" but that didn't stop apple to change the design,there is no such thing as absolute perfection,because this is what you are talking about,everything evolves sometimes the new is better sometimes not but this is innovation and you should better pray to never stop.
By that logic, the iPhone 4S didn't "need" the A5 at all, since the A4 could already pushed the Retina resolution on the iPhone 4. It still got it. Look, my 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics card could push out plenty of pixels back in 1998. Yet 3Dfx came out with the Voodoo 2 chipset, nVidia has been releasing chipsets ever since to compete, same with ATI.
Progress is made year after year. That's why I think they won't just put an A5 in the new iPhone, and they won't release a new SoC that trumps the new iPad either (they have never done so, the iPad has always been an indication of the iPhone's SoC for later that year).
Apple is about simple increments and small steps. That's how they keep component costs low, but assuring that they have large volume. They won't suddenly source 2 different SoCs. So either we're getting an A5, or the A5X is getting evolved somehow (and maybe even making its way into the rumored "updated" iPad/iPad mini. Just a SoC update to help battery/heat).
About 50 days b/w now and launch even at around 80-100k units a day that's only 4-5 million units. Wonder if that is enough for launch. They are also prob using the brazil facility this time.
True, but afaik, Samsung never leaked any of Apple's plans.
Yes, because Apple manages to have one of the best supply lines in the industry by letting emotions and their own paranoia decide business relationships.
Oh really?
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/00/07/19/apple_turns_cold_shoulder_towards_ati_at_macworld.html
Okay.
What made the Sharp president do this?
On another note, since everyone's talking about the iPhone....
I hope the upcoming iPhone gets an Apple A6. The A5X is going to be a bit outdated since it's only a GPU boost from the A5.
What made the Sharp president do this?
On another note, since everyone's talking about the iPhone....
I hope the upcoming iPhone gets an Apple A6. The A5X is going to be a bit outdated since it's only a GPU boost from the A5.
The A5X isn't a reasonable increase IMO. The iPad 3 battery had to grow 70% to get the same battery life as the iPad 2. That wasn't all the new screen. It's also way too large and hot. They'd have significantly reduced space for other components on the board.
So, apple won't source two different SoCs, yet they continue to produce A4, A5 (in both 45nm and 32nm) and A5X in addition to still sourcing the Samsung processor for the 3GS?
If they make a new SoC for the iphone, it's not as if that engineering won't apply to future iterations, especially if it uses A15 or Rogue cores.
You're not getting a Cortex A15 core in the new iPhone in September that is pretty much a given. The new iPhone won't have a more powerful SoC than the iPad 3.
If you really don't believe in a die-shrunk A5X, then we're getting another year with the A5.
Not sure what better words to use.
Tim Cook was quoted as something like "we will control leaks, seriously."
So if the CEO of a big supplier drops product spec hints and timing of supplies, then Tim Cook either is not being clear enough or posing a credible threat to prevent leaks through contracts or incentives.
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http://areacellphone.com/2012/06/apple-iphone-5-new-videos-tim-cook-deliberately-leaking-fake-parts-and-components/
Why is it a given? Samsung's Exynos 5250, which has the A15, is already in production given their roadmap. You can make the argument that iPads get the SoCs first, but there is no way the next iphone is getting the A5X given its size, power and heat. Thus it's probably getting an A5 or something new. Seeing as how every iPhone has got a new CPU since the 3GS, Apple has a history of updating the iPhone CPU too. There's no way to tell what we're getting, but A15 is possible.
It's either going to be another A5, or it'll be something along the lines of an A15. At the iPhone's res, the GPU would be rather CPU limited with an A5X.
It's not impossible for the iPhone to outspec the iPad. Afterall, the iPhone 4 had 512MB ram while the first iPad only had 256MB... even though the iPad arguably could have made better use out of the extra memory.
- 4" 16:9 Retina Display
- Thinner IZGO screen
- Entire phone same thickness as the metal band on iPhone 4 / 4S
- AirDrop via Bluetooth 4.0
- 10mp camera with improved lens for low-light conditions and better colour
- 1.3mp front facing FaceTime camera (hoping for 2mp....)
- 4G LTE compatible across the world (after the iPad 3 4G debacle)
- New 8 pin MagSafe connector
- Improved battery life, up to 12 hours call time
Honestly I think the most important features for a smartphone nowadays to sell well are battery life, camera and aesthetic design. The vast majority of people don't care about connectors, NFS, PassBook etc.
Instagram-ers everywhere would be happy.
What's the use of NSF anyway?
I think Passbook looks interesting as long as it's not really a gimmick and has offline support.
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Where are people getting MagSafe connectors from? Can it be used to transfer data?
Doubtful. & I'm not even sure this really counts as a leak. All he said is that a new phone is coming out & that Sharp is making the screen. All you have to do is look at a product schedule to know the first part.
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I'll presume you guys mean NFC or Near Field Communications. It's just a way to transfer data to another device in close proximity. That proximity requirement seemingly makes it more secure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
It's the connector attachment I think people are hoping for & rumormongering about, not really the cable.