Now that sounds nice! Referring to the link in your post. Seems that might be apart of Apples roadmap for future iPhones
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Apple Ordering Components and Flash RAM for New iPhone?
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Now that sounds nice! Referring to the link in your post. Seems that might be apart of Apples roadmap for future iPhones
Though June 8 is less than 2 months away, let us recall the Iphone law of time dilation. The closer one gets to the release of the next generation the slower times appears to move.
On a personal note, I am so excited at the prospect of Augmented reality I can hardley breath.
I can't wait to get my own Iphone in July 2010, (4th gen). I will definetely spring for the 64 Gig model.
I can't wait to see what kind of star trek magic Steve and Company come up with
My thoughts exactly!!
Any possibility that this flash memory is for the new Apple netbook/tablet device ?
Perhaps several chips per computer would mean no hard drive is necessary. It would not need as much memory as a full computer because it is only a netbook/tablet and would be advertised as such. Perhaps ten chips per device; meaning 80GB. Ten million initial devices could be sold. (hey, only ten million iPhones were sold in the first year)
Perhaps several chips per computer would mean no hard drive is necessary. It would not need as much memory as a full computer because it is only a netbook/tablet and would be advertised as such. Perhaps ten chips per device; meaning 80GB. Ten million initial devices could be sold. (hey, only ten million iPhones were sold in the first year)
I own a first generation iPhone. There was no contract, so I can upgrade to a 3G at any time for the subsidized cost. The iPhone 3G was always sold with a contract in the US. Why don't you call ATT right now. Tell them you lost your iPhone 3G and see if they will give you a new 3G for $199
I don't mean to single you out, but it is amazing the assumptions people are making in this thread. People who don't even understand the difference between "bit" and "byte".
Yeah, I'm loving the creativity. It's pure entertainment. I'm even more excited to see what the reality is, though. When I can hold it in my hands...
3.14 out of what?
Forgot to mention that the moniker probability scale, improbabilically enough, is between 1.61 and 4.08.
I've been thinking along similar lines: a bigger motherboard = more room.
However, the key question is going to be if they're cheap enough to be worth taking that approach, as xnu mentions:
So what's the answer to the question of the unit cost of this chip? I did one quick search and possibly found a $3 suggestion. Running with that (for lack of anything better):
The catch here is that they're 8Gb (bit), not 8GB chips, so for 80GB, you need 80 chips.
At $3 each, that would be $240. Given Toshiba's 1.8" hard drives retail for very very roughly $1 per GB, this price point is not cost-competitive...but that doesn't mean that it doesn't have other potential advantages which may offset (eg, reliability, final assembled cost, power consumption, etc).
Net bottom line is that the tablet netbook may have some potential here.
-hh
