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New Multi-Core iPhone with Firmware 3.0?
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Nope, battery life would actually get better as long as you don't max out all cores. To do the same task, one core would work at full clock speed whereas 2 cores only need 50% of that clock speed.
Increaing clock speeds a little increases power cinsumption tremendously, that's one of the reasons multi-cores are standard now. You theoretically could make 6 GHz processors, but they'd just burn up. A dual 3 GHz is much more practical.
I would be happy with just DUAL core. All I want is my apps to open and close instantly. No waiting. I think a processor increase would do the trick (maybe ram too). As for battery life, the 17 inch mbp battery technology can certainly trickle down to the iphone as well. Push applications is a definite must anyways. Its been promised, deadlines have past and we're still waiting. So maybe apple is scrambling to make good on their promise by upping the processor speed and increasing battery life. You really don't need allot of motherboard space on the device its mostly taken up by the screen technology so the rest can become more battery.
I hope they call it the iP2
that would be hilarious.
I hope they call it the iP2
that would be hilarious.I find it very interesting that in all of Apple's patent filings for tech that involves "mobile devices" they give the examples of: cellular phones, media players, AND Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)!!!!!!!!!!
Why would they reference that if they did not have the MacTablet in their strategy. The cell phone is obviously the iPhone, the media player is the iPods, and the PDA can only be a future MacTablet!
Am I alone? Has anyone else ever noticed that???
A multi-core processor in the next iPhone could open up new possibilities and there should be other additions in version 3.0 not just multi-core support for a new model (so 3.0 could be used on 2.x devices).
But what would it do to the battery??? You'd have to charge twice a day now rather than daily??
..and maybe you can get rid of the OS/Browser string, tagged to everything you post.
I have a feeling this will happen. The iphone/touch are obviously competitors in the mobile gaming market now, and this will give them a huge boost.
Mini-tablet?
Single-core to quad-core (where each core in the quad may be more powerful than the single-core) just seems too big a jump in one generation to me. But for a mini-tablet, it's perfectly reasonable, especially if it will end up running mobile iLife.
Maybe:
Maybe quad-core will be for the possibly upcoming mini-tablet, not the regular iPhone (and iPod touch)?
Single-core to quad-core (where each core in the quad may be more powerful than the single-core) just seems too big a jump in one generation to me. But for a mini-tablet, it's perfectly reasonable, especially if it will end up running mobile iLife.
Maybe:
- 3.5", 480x320, 1-core
- 5.5", 720x480, 2-core
- 7.5", 960x640, 4-core
Amen, brother. 3g wasn't important enough to get me to upgrade, but "instant-on" responsiveness would.
No - we are NOT. It is not even CLOSE to a full-blown OS X install. It may share some components but it is not a full version or even close - of OS X.
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I run background all the time with a jail-broken iPhone and Flycast runs well as does Mail and other smaller applications. I run only one background app and one up front (usually Mail) with no known problems. I agree with your comment that it can and is being done with no real problems I can detect.
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does that always happen? I post things from my iphone and I never see that, even when I go back and look on another computer.
Maybe quad-core will be for the possibly upcoming mini-tablet, not the regular iPhone (and iPod touch)?
Single-core to quad-core (where each core in the quad may be more powerful than the single-core) just seems too big a jump in one generation to me. But for a mini-tablet, it's perfectly reasonable, especially if it will end up running mobile iLife.
Maybe:
- 3.5", 480x320, 1-core
- 5.5", 720x480, 2-core
- 7.5", 960x640, 4-core
Perfect. But not before mid 2010 (with the cortex A9 MPCore).
For those interested in the subject, ARM already has a multicore processor, the ARM11 MPCore. This "older" processor is at the heart of nvidia's TEGRA platform. It's probably a too big/power hungry platform for a 3.5" iPhone/iPod touch, but could probably be used in a bigger device (7" display, bigger battery).
Yes, but I doubt anybody would buy a tablet that could only run iPhone applications. It has to be full OSX or nothing.
Welcome back
Always good to read Marx55 and Zunx (same guy?) re the ultraportable full OS X tablet/projector...and the thousands he's going to buy for the U. Miss it when I don't see him for a week or so.
Always good to read Marx55 and Zunx (same guy?) re the ultraportable full OS X tablet/projector...and the thousands he's going to buy for the U. Miss it when I don't see him for a week or so.
Thank you for the sanity check
Yeah, lots of people up in arms about something they are not very well equipped to evaluate apparently. Hey, not dogging the guy just asking questions though as they are interested in learning.
I think quad cores would be interesting as Apple slips into more multi-processing and power efficiency. This quad-core sounds interesting on a tablet or heck, even a phone if the cores can be readily switched on and off. In the future (next year even) we might need that power. Why not have that power if your plant can manufacture them are roughly the same cost?
Saying "never" to quad core phones is like saying "never" to horseless carriages, or maybe a better analogy, "never" to 60mph horses.
The ignorance in this thread is astounding. What is a CPU? You must be joking.
I see a lot of people here confusing mobile ARM processors with desktop processors. They are quite different.
A quad core ARM processor is quite possible but your dual core laptop processor would still kick its arse any day in terms of raw processing power.
I look forward to this new iPhone revision. I should be eligible for an upgrade by the time it comes out.
Yeah, lots of people up in arms about something they are not very well equipped to evaluate apparently. Hey, not dogging the guy just asking questions though as they are interested in learning.
I think quad cores would be interesting as Apple slips into more multi-processing and power efficiency. This quad-core sounds interesting on a tablet or heck, even a phone if the cores can be readily switched on and off. In the future (next year even) we might need that power. Why not have that power if your plant can manufacture them are roughly the same cost?
Saying "never" to quad core phones is like saying "never" to horseless carriages, or maybe a better analogy, "never" to 60mph horses.
THIS is what i think theyre going to push when they release a new iphone this summer. I think it will basically have all the same specs as the 3G we have right now other than the processor and RAM. I think theyre going to push the whole mobile gaming thing and really focus on upping the specs of the phone. The phone is in desperate need of a RAM boost....
9to5 has a decent article talking about how multi core iphones in 2009 aren't probable:
http://9to5mac.com/arm-cortex-a9-multi-core-2010-2009
http://9to5mac.com/arm-cortex-a9-multi-core-2010-2009