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Chinese Forum Poster Claims Next Generation iPhone Details

Dwalls90 said:
Not thrilled that there is no change to the battery. The battery life is just decent at best, and will be depleted even faster with these increases in processing power. I would have liked to have seen a battery that lasted at least 1.5x as long as the G2 iPhone.

And why no 3G 2.0? (7.2mb.s, versus the current 3.6mb/s)

Obviously they're keeping the same OS/interface, I think that's good. Why change a good thing? iPhone 3.0 software should perfect it IMO.
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We already know there is going to be faster 3G on this one because AT&T is upgrading there network.
 
zpesk said:
What makes this obviously fake is that if this had a capacity of 32GB why would the total capacity be about 29 GB. The iPhone OS easily is less than a gigabyte, so this makes no sense.
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randomusername said:
That does not indicate a fake. Capacities are always lower than advertised. My 250GB MacBook is really 220GB. The 16GB iPhone is really <15GB. The 32GB iPod Touch is probably around 29GB.
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na1577 said:
The 16GB iPod touch only has 14.6 GB of available space.
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This explains why that is: http://www.techimo.com/forum/storag...sizes-why-you-dont-get-all-space-you-pay.html

Its because how the OS and the hardware manufacturer counts a GB is different.
 
ipedro said:
Perhaps we'll see Apple moving towards a consistent look with its unibody Macbooks.

A pressed aluminum case could be thinner than the current plastic yet tougher. Add an all black glass top and micro perforations for the speakers and status lights like the MB's and you've got yourself one sexy, plastic free iPhone. 😀
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Won't happen unless they figure out how to handle reception..

I always wondered why the chrome ring around the phone can't be the antenna itself? Why do we need a plastic back? Doesn't the signal penetrate the front glass?
 
zpesk said:
What makes this obviously fake is that if this had a capacity of 32GB why would the total capacity be about 29 GB. The iPhone OS easily is less than a gigabyte, so this makes no sense.
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haha no. he is some technical boring stuff, the manufacturers of hard drives measure GB using decimal counting instead of binary, such as using powers of 10 instead of 2, which means 1GB for them is 1000MB instead of 1024MB and 1000KB is a MB instead of 1024, etc... blah blah blah you actually start with less so around 29 would be correct.
 
HA-Ha

FM!!! Yeah - Right

Although, it could be used to play over the radio.... Useful for GPS stuff + General music. If it has an FM receiver/transmitter anyway, why not make use of it and make one more selling point?
 
a couple points...


1) the performance of a CPU is far more complicated than just "whats the speed". It's very likely the next iPhone will use a chip based around an ARM Cortex-A8 core instead of the older ARM11architecture. The Cortex-A8 (which can run at speeds up to 1.0Ghz) can be more than twice as fast as the ARM11 at the *same clock speed* (depending on the application.) So even a 600mhz Cortex-A8 (coincidentally exactly what the Palm Pre uses) would be far faster than the 400mhz ARM11 in the current iPhone 3G.

Also, the ARM core is only one part of the performance equation. Depending on the manufacturer and model, SoCs also can have additional floating point units, SIMD units, DSPs, and other components that affect performance.

2) No mention of the GPU. Similar to the ARM core, it is likely that the new iPhone will use the next-generation of graphics processors from Imagination. The current iPhone uses the PowerVR "MBX lite" and the next-generation is the PowerVR SGX. Unlike the MBX, the SGX comes in a half-dozen models that are progressively more powerful. Depending on the one that gets choosen for the new iPhone, its graphics chip should be 1.5x-3x faster than the current one.
 
Ron21 said:
I always wondered why the chrome ring around the phone can't be the antenna itself?
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The ring is one of the antennas!

"iPhone 3G delivers UMTS, HSDPA, GSM, Wi-Fi, EDGE, GPS, and Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR in one compact device — using only two antennas. Clever iPhone engineering integrates those antennas into a few unexpected places: the metal ring around the camera, the audio jack, the metal screen bezel, and the iPhone circuitry itself." - Apple.com
 
Dwalls90 said:
Not thrilled that there is no change to the battery. The battery life is just decent at best, and will be depleted even faster with these increases in processing power. I would have liked to have seen a battery that lasted at least 1.5x as long as the G2 iPhone.

And why no 3G 2.0? (7.2mb.s, versus the current 3.6mb/s)

Obviously they're keeping the same OS/interface, I think that's good. Why change a good thing? iPhone 3.0 software should perfect it IMO.
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FYI, the upgraded 3G network is NOT called 3G 2.0! It's called 3.5G, 3.5G is capable of going up to 20 Mb/s. AT&T is prepping the 3.5G to run at 7.2 Mb/s for the v3 iPhone launch. Furthermore AT&T plans to roll out 3.5G @ 20 Mb/s starting in December.

Most likely the 20 Mb/s will only be available for data cards, though there's a chance we'll see it in the new iPhone this summer. (don't hold your breath)
 
What makes this obviously fake is that if this had a capacity of 32GB why would the total capacity be about 29 GB. The iPhone OS easily is less than a gigabyte, so this makes no sense.
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na1577 said:
The 16GB iPod touch only has 14.6 GB of available space.
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ipso facto, the 16 GB iPod touch is obviously fake, too. 😀
 
daneoni said:
Sounds like a lame update. I guess no need to upgrade from the 3G then.

3.2MP for a media centric device...really?...in 2009?
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I believe 3.2MP is probably the sweet spot. Cramming too many pixels into a tiny sensor (the smaller the pixels the less light they can capture and the more amplification they require) means poorer low light performance and more noise. Sure there are phones out there that have more megapixels but the good ones have larger optics and larger sensors but are also thicker than the iPhone.
 
Goona said:
What 12 MP be better?
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Funny man 🙄

1984 said:
I believe 3.2MP is probably the sweet spot. Cramming too many pixels into a tiny sensor (the smaller the pixels the less light they can capture and the more amplification they require) means poorer low light performance and more noise. Sure there are phones out there that have more megapixels but the good ones have larger optics and larger sensors but are also thicker than the iPhone.
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I still think 5MP with good optics is not too much to ask
 
Lepton said:
The ring is one of the antennas!

"iPhone 3G delivers UMTS, HSDPA, GSM, Wi-Fi, EDGE, GPS, and Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR in one compact device — using only two antennas. Clever iPhone engineering integrates those antennas into a few unexpected places: the metal ring around the camera, the audio jack, the metal screen bezel, and the iPhone circuitry itself." - Apple.com
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Very clever indeed. 🙂

Although I'm not sure how comfortable I am with the idea that the antennae are pointed directly at my face 😱 At the frequency that I use my phone against my face, I'll grow a sibling out of my cheek in a few years.
 
Meh. If those specs are true, it's not even enough to get me to upgrade from my original (EDGE) iPhone. And I do want to upgrade. A faster CPU is nice, but some web pages can take over 10x as long to load as on a desktop machine, using WiFi even.

I'll wait for 3.5G/4G data, an 800 MHz CPU (or multicore), and a higher resolution screen (720x480 would be good). I'm much more excited about the 3.0 software and mythical "media tablet" than the new iPhone hardware described here.
 
HiRez said:
Meh. If those specs are true, it's not even enough to get me to upgrade from my original (EDGE) iPhone. And I do want to upgrade. A faster CPU is nice, but some web pages can take over 10x as long to load as on a desktop machine, using WiFi even.

I'll wait for 4G data, an 800 MHz CPU (or multicore), and a higher resolution screen (720x480 would be good). I'm much more excited about the 3.0 software and mythical "media tablet" than the new iPhone hardware described here.
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They can't change the screen resolution.

It would kill most of the apps in the Appstore.
 
Here's your camera:

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and here's your sexyness:

iphone4g-nextgen.png


Choose one 😛
 
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I call BS, I know how to use photoshop cs3/4 really well and creating something like this is way too easy.
 
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