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iPhone OS 3.0 Beta References Four Unknown Products

Lesser Evets said:
Well, there are two problems--you are too uptight over the name as if I am dictating the real name of the product, and you took me seriously. I named it such because I have a dirty mind.

MaxiPod isn't hurting anyone. Until they produce the name, I'll probably keep calling it that. It's memorable. It's assy. It's a name.
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sarcasm doesn't always translate well in text. Glad it was all in good fun and not a mean statement.... we're cool now.
 
64 Gig would be a ridiculous insult at this point considering the cost and size of memory available, combined with ALL those apps and the desire for a real video player. It should be no less than 128 at this point, ideally 256 for the top tier device. I don't see why the iPods need to lag a year behind the hardware technology while the Mac's are prettty current.
 
thanks for the info.,.everything looks good
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Black Belt said:
64 Gig would be a ridiculous insult at this point considering the cost and size of memory available, combined with ALL those apps and the desire for a real video player. It should be no less than 128 at this point, ideally 256 for the top tier device. I don't see why the iPods need to lag a year behind the hardware technology while the Mac's are prettty current.
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256GB wont fit in the iPhone or Touch with their current thickness. Besides 256GB SSD is like 400 dollars by itself. People have complained about the $700 unsub price, imagine a $1100 price.
 
New Iphone

Just been to the O2 store in Scotland.

I want to get an iphone even though I am still in contract with Vodafone I am going to take the hit and buy myself out to get a iphone.
Even although it a pain transferring my number etc


I wanted to see the call rates that they had and I asked about the new hardware.

The manager said that there will defiantly not be a new model this year as there is new software out in the summer.

I did not believe her and I will wait anyway as the longer I wait the cheeper to buy out of my vodafone contract.

So obviously the 02 staff have been told to keep quiet so they can keep selling for the next few months
 
diamond.g said:
256GB wont fit in the iPhone or Touch with their current thickness. Besides 256GB SSD is like 400 dollars by itself. People have complained about the $700 unsub price, imagine a $1100 price.
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Steve will MAKE it fit. :p

And if Apple bought into that level of SSD, at their quantities it would be a hell of a lot less than $400. And I wasn't referring to the iPhone, which I don't care about. They need to work on a decent antennae for that thing, the reception is not good. I am referring to that level for the Touch which would probably create a $600 iPod which they have done before. 256 would make it VERY useful and I'd be all over that. Then you'd have the room to develop a tether for downloading and viewing RAW from Digital SLRs - they'd have a whole new market.
 
Black Belt said:
Steve will MAKE it fit. :p

And if Apple bought into that level of SSD, at their quantities it would be a hell of a lot less than $400. And I wasn't referring to the iPhone, which I don't care about. They need to work on a decent antennae for that thing, the reception is not good. I am referring to that level for the Touch which would probably create a $600 iPod which they have done before. 256 would make it VERY useful and I'd be all over that. Then you'd have the room to develop a tether for downloading and viewing RAW from Digital SLRs - they'd have a whole new market.
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Does anyone know what the throughput of the memory chips in the current iPod Touch is? It seems like the unit would be pretty slow compared to SSDs. Don't SSDs usually have 16+ memory modules in them? How else are they written to so quickly when normal thumb drives and CF cards are pretty slow?
 
BTW said:
Sounds like Apple is busy making us a batch of goodies. Maybe we'll get two iPhone models this June, a Netbook with the iPhone OS (Kindle size), and a new iPod Touch model. Sweet! :cool:
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A Netbook to replace my Kindle 2 ? Sweet!
Get the keyboard to appear only when I need it.
Use the 3g or WiFi to get all my subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc.

That new iPhone/Netbook would certainly become a perfect mobile multimedia device as well. I could not only read books on the train, but also view HD movies on a much larger screen (10 in.) than on my iPhone.
Could also be used for most desktop chores while on the move if I have to.

How would you call it? the born again iBook ? :)
 
Nvidia iFPGA link?

Just a thought -

Nvidia has recently adopted Synopsys' IC Validator physical verification solution. It's been developed for advanced designs at 45nm and below, to offer in-design physical verification and signoff.

Gives accelerated time to tapeout, apparently.

Synopsys, Inc.
is the world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk.
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So was the FPGA a product, or a product checker? Apple has previously used Synopsys for their Behavioral Compiler - to help design cycle time.

So maybe it is a chip, for mass production - maybe it was for help in Apple/collaboration with Nvidia in working on chip design?.

Synopsys is #2 in EDA. Would make sense for Apple to have someone like them on board to help them. Why?

Well, things like buying up MIPS Technologies might not be interesting (a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing)

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070308_001806.html

but...

The ARM Angle

Further, they tied up with ARM and announced the industry’s first comprehensive low-power verification solution which enables customers to adopt best practices for low-power designs faster.
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http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/synopsys.html

Through the results of an on-going technical collaboration between ARM and Synopsys, ARM® synthesizable processor cores are becoming as easy to deploy as a compiled RAM cell. ARM and Synopsys Professional Services work closely to co-develop the ARM-Synopsys Galaxy™ Reference Methodology (RM), a proven methodology built from best practices for the implementation of ARM cores with Synopsys’ latest tools and flows. This ARM-Synopsys RM is a fully integrated, production proven implementation flow based around Synopsys’ Galaxy Design Platform and is portable across multiple silicon technologies.
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http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/synopsys.html
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199702802
http://seekingalpha.com/article/127756-eda-industry-update
 
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