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New Multi-Core iPhone with Firmware 3.0?

First the Palm Pre and now this rumor!!! If this is true then the iPhone is gonna be packing some serious power. I think the quad core thing may be a bit over the top but something with a good bit more grunt I can see as being a good possibility.
 
New GPU

Hopefully an improved GPU will bring OpenGL ES 2.0 support to the iPhone - this could be especially useful for the growing games market.
 
Sounds like the iPhone pro. Maybe that means the "nano" will be the current model, and this "future iPhone" will go back to the original pricing and be the apple netbook.
 
tuckerja said:
Sounds like the iPhone pro. Maybe that means the "nano" will be the current model, and this "future iPhone" will go back to the original pricing and be the apple netbook.
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Interesting idea that the current could become the iPhone Nano.
 
reallynotnick said:
As long as the screen and the usability is the same I don't see it as a huge problem, just like a computer programs run on a variety of different speeds of hardware.
As far as games go the version for the older machines would run with lower poly counts, textures and whatnot. Other productivity apps might just run a little slower.
The speed has been the same for almost 2 years now, they need to up the speed a little or they will fall behind the competition, we don't want just another RAZR.
As long as the apps run on both I don't see a problem, and then they can up the speed again in 2 years which then all the slower iPods/iPhones would become semi-obsolete depending on if developers wanted to support them. And it's not like those iPods would not function anymore they would just get less new apps.
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Maybe so but different models would make app-shopping more confusing, do i have a first, second or third gen iPhone and does the app still work on my Touch whatever generation. We would need nonconfusing model numbering and/or naming. We can't have a quadcore iPhone with the same look and feel as the current one.

The "iPhone V3.1 multi" written on the front?
 
Apps might be just required to run on the current hardware, with this extra power (and hopefully RAM) enabling many applications to run at once.

Phazer
 
gnasher729 said:
That's the reason why you want multiple cores. Power consumption grows with the square of clock speed. If you have four cores, running at a fourth of the clock speed, you get the same performance at a quarter of the power consumption. Four cores at half speed = twice the performance at the same power consumption as a single core.
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So they could keep the power the same, but use give it stupendous battery life?
 
armoguy94 said:
I hope this will be compatible with iPod Touch 1st Gen and they wont leave us screwed like what they usually do for products a few months old!
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They better! I would not be happy if I was stuck with OS 2.2 because it's not the fastest mobile OS. I would be happy though if Apple got an update out that would be very stable, fast, and less power cosuming. Then later they could out with new iPhones and iPods with the iPhone 3.0 update that would only compatible with multi-core processors.

I would also like to see an iPhone Nano and iPod nano running the same firmware. That could really boost their sales.
 
Bonte said:
Bad move to beef up the iPhone or Touch, they need to keep the performance at the same level for a long time to avoid AppStore costumer confusion. Only change it with radically new models or the tablet.
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ya 🙄 bad move to move technology forward so that old devices can still feel "new" and useful ...
 
If such a rumor is true and a mulit-core iPhone comes out then they likely would enable background processes. Maybe this is what is holding up Push notifications? It's unlikely, but with Apple anything is possible.
 
3.0 will probably also include the long anticipated background notification service when it comes out in late 2009.
Haha
 
gnasher729 said:
That's the reason why you want multiple cores. Power consumption grows with the square of clock speed. If you have four cores, running at a fourth of the clock speed, you get the same performance at a quarter of the power consumption. Four cores at half speed = twice the performance at the same power consumption as a single core.
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Uhm...no.

It all depends on how threaded any given code is. If it isn't highly parallel there is rarely anything to gain from going multi-core over a faster clock speed.

And power consumption is definitely not linear as you seem to suggest.
 
For Cores running at a quarter of the speed of the processor they use now does not mean same performance, there is not Multi-Core optimization that is 100% efficient.
But all in all thats right.
When do you expect them to launch this new iPhone(/Device)?
Where do the News come from? If so many people already know about it it's probably not to far away.
 
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