Next iPhone: Double Resolution Display, Front Camera, Multi-Tasking?

[nfl46]

This is ONLY setting people up for a DISAPPOINTMENT! Now, ALL you iPhone users know (D) wellllllllllll, Apple isn't going to put ALL of that in ONE iPhone. Lets get real!!! This is Apple, not HTC! Apple main feature is going to be multitasking..LOL. I just may laugh if this is true.

 

[NorrisKillsKids]

This is ONLY setting people up for a DISAPPOINTMENT! Now, ALL you iPhone users know (D) wellllllllllll, Apple isn't going to put ALL of that in ONE iPhone. Lets get real!!! This is Apple, not HTC! Apple main feature is going to be multitasking..LOL. I just may laugh if this is true.

people need to stop acting like they fully understand everything apple does or will do, it's getting old lol.

 

[bobjob186]

eh...we shall wait and see. I can't wait for the iphone to be in everyones pockets!

 

[palmerc2]

I would like to see the following (in addition to the ones listed by Gruber)

-4G ready. Have a radio chip that will be able to utilize 4G when it's finally ready.

-different front looks. This design is getting old, need something new.

-no change to the screen size, I am already far beyond comfortable with the current (portrait) keyboard.

-HD video recording

-changes to the UI

 

[troop231]

eh...we shall wait and see. I can't wait for the iphone to be in everyones pockets!

I hope its not in everyones pockets.. it will be like the razr lol

 

[mrskitch]

So it's pretty much a mini iPad. Amiright?

They should call it: iThe iMini iPad iShuffle

 

[el3ktro]

just so everyone knows, i've been claiming the "double resolution display" for months now.

it makes sense to me... all other phones have way higher resolution, and this lets all current apps work as is. easy... on that small screen, you wouldn't even really notice that much.

so... if the double rez comes true... CALLED IT!

When you 'don't really notice that much', then why have a higher resolution?

 

[troop231]

So it's pretty much a mini iPad. Amiright?

They should call it: iThe iMini iPad iShuffle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwnsQpcNvpE

 

[alexhasfun28]

I rather have an iPhone on the Sprint network than on Verizon Wireless.
& front facing camera? Psh. Please. Maybe on wi-fi, not an a network though.

 

[Eddieowns]

To be honest, if it doesn't include these things, I'll be getting an HTC Evo, and switching to Sprint's 4G.

 

[beebler]

My guess is that the iPad folks won't be too pleased if the iPhone came out with a front-facing camera a few months after they get their iPad. It is about time though, Apple has to put it all in there if they want to keep their lead over the competition.

 

[SandynJosh]

That's like the fifth time you've posted the same question in this thread.

The iPhone won't be much larger (if at all) than the current form. There is a rumour of a slightly taller factor, but nothing drastic.

Why would you want a substantially larger iPhone? Will be heavier and bulkier to carry around..

He wants an iPad he can hold up along side his head like a ghetto blaster from the '80s.

 

[slu]

you have to read between the lines. Gruber likes to publish information like this.

arn

Which is probably the main reason I find him annoying.

 

[Xavier]

What does this have to do with Verizon?

They have this list of cool features that could happen and then tag on, oh and it might come out on Verizon..

 

[lowbatteries]

What the frack is a "double-resolution" display? Its either 960x640 or it isn't.

The A4 chip promises to make it snappy.

I assume they mean double the resolution of the current iPhone (which is 480x320).

Edit: of course, that would be double in both dimensions, which would be quadruple the actual pixels.

 

[Grimace]

Maybe the WiFi-only front-facing camera for video chatting will be available ONLY on the Verizon iPhone in September!! That would cause some serious havoc!

 

[Digital Skunk]

I rather have an iPhone on the Sprint network than on Verizon Wireless.
& front facing camera? Psh. Please. Maybe on wi-fi, not an a network though.

Same here, but I am going to put my money on Apple wanting to make BUCKETS of cash, so the largest CDMA network is going to win out.

Personally, either works, I am sure that we'll be able to hack it onto Sprint's network now that the CDMA hardware is there. The real question is whether or not Sprint users will want a 3G phone with a 4G one that actually competes with the iPhone coming out soon.

If multitasking on the iPhone is as good or better than the Palm Pre, then maybe I'd forgo a faster network and WiFi and 8MP camera and such things.

 

[pmz]

The front camera and multitasking have both been suggested before.

Yeah, since iPhone OS 1.0. Nothing to see here.

 

[The General]

What the frack is a "double-resolution" display? Its either 960x640 or it isn't.

The A4 chip promises to make it snappy.

doubling the resolution of the iphone's existing screen

960x640 is double 480x320 -- the current iPhone resolution. 4x as many pixels.

what kind of math are you using? 960x640 is quadruple 480x320.

then you go on to say it's "4x as many pixels" ... since when was double the same thing as four times?

 

[Kesuke]

The 4th generation iPhone will not possess a 960x640 pixel display. Clearly this is a joke taken out of context by the dreamers. A 960 x 640 pixel display would be ridiculously resolute, even on a larger ~4 inch screen. The nexus one has an 854 x 480 AMOLED display which is about as good as you can get for mass manufacture right now.

My (educated) guess is that apple have had a big dilemma about the screen, and it could turn out to be one of the biggest surprises on the 4th gen device.

The problem is the apps are very much focused on the original 480x320 standard, and apps are the iphones strength in an increasingly competitive market. So they have 3 options;

• 1: Stick with the current resolution (although may still improve it in other ways, e.g. going to AMOLED).
  
• 2: Increase the resolution but allow old apps to run at their intended 480 x 320 - making them potentially very small.
  
• 3: Or they could possibly include a GPU based ‘scale-up’ feature for old apps like the iPad does. HOWEVER – this is quite easy for the ipad since it is an easy 1:4 ratio. But the iPhone just won’t be able to support a 960 x 640 pixel display, so any scale up is going to have to be some wierd ratio, which is going to be very difficult to achieve on the hardware, without glitches.

 

[pmz]

The 4th generation iPhone will not possess a 960x640 pixel display. Clearly this is a joke taken out of context by the dreamers. A 960 x 640 pixel display would be ridiculously resolute, even on a larger ~4 inch screen. The nexus one has an 854 x 480 AMOLED display which is about as good as you can get for mass manufacture right now.

My (educated) guess is that apple have had a big dilemma about the screen, and it could turn out to be one of the biggest surprises on the 4th gen device.

The problem is the apps are very much focused on the original 480x320 standard, and apps are the iphones strength in an increasingly competitive market. So they have 3 options;

• 1: Stick with the current resolution (although may still improve it in other ways, e.g. going to AMOLED).
  
• 2: Increase the resolution but allow old apps to run at their intended 480 x 320 - making them potentially very small.
  
• 3: Or they could possibly include a GPU based ‘scale-up’ feature for old apps like the iPad does. HOWEVER – this is quite easy for the ipad since it is an easy 1:4 ratio. But the iPhone just won’t be able to support a 960 x 640 pixel display, so any scale up is going to have to be some wierd ratio, which is going to be very difficult to achieve on the hardware, with glitches.

as it is they scale up iPhone apps on the iPad at more than twice the size. You really think bumping a few pixels in another transition period would be a big deal? Devs will update, things will
continue. No big deal. The iPhones res can change, it's not locked into anything.

 

[iansilv]

Also will come with a pet chimpanzee with filed down teeth.

The filed down teeth won't matter- the problem with chimpanzees is that they are incredibly strong and still dangerous, even without the filed down teeth.



Oh... It was a joke...

 

[The General]

The 4th generation iPhone will not possess a 960x640 pixel display. Clearly this is a joke taken out of context by the dreamers. A 960 x 640 pixel display would be ridiculously resolute, even on a larger ~4 inch screen. The nexus one has an 854 x 480 AMOLED display which is about as good as you can get for mass manufacture right now.

the nexus one has an 800x480 amoled. the droid has a 854x480 lcd.

My (educated) guess is that apple have had a big dilemma about the screen, and it could turn out to be one of the biggest surprises on the 4th gen device.

it will likely turn out to be the biggest disappointment.

The problem is the apps are very much focused on the original 480x320 standard, and apps are the iphones strength in an increasingly competitive market. So they have 3 options;

• 1: Stick with the current resolution (although may still improve it in other ways, e.g. going to AMOLED).
  
• 2: Increase the resolution but allow old apps to run at their intended 480 x 320 - making them potentially very small.
  
• 3: Or they could possibly include a GPU based ‘scale-up’ feature for old apps like the iPad does. HOWEVER – this is quite easy for the ipad since it is an easy 1:4 ratio. But the iPhone just won’t be able to support a 960 x 640 pixel display, so any scale up is going to have to be some wierd ratio, which is going to be very difficult to achieve on the hardware, with glitches.

960x640 is the same aspect ratio as 480x320. to scale it up would be completely trivial. each pixel of the app would be displayed by 4 pixels of the display.

no glitches or aspect ratio problems at all.

as it is they scale up iPhone apps on the iPad at more than twice the size. You really think bumping a few pixels in another transition period would be a big deal? Devs will update, things will
continue. No big deal. The iPhones res can change, it's not locked into anything.

exactly. if android apps can deal with multiple devices with different resolutions, surely iphone apps can as well.

 

[jonhas]

Last time I checked double means 2x not 4x. You and the article poster must mean that the resolution would be quadrupled.

Last time you checked you were wrong.

Double the height and double with width equals four times as many pixels on screen.

Welcome to the second dimension.

 

[coleridge78]

doubling the resolution of the iphone's existing screen



i should hope he watches battlestar galactica. caprica kinda sucks.



what kind of math are you using? 960x640 is quadruple 480x320.

then you go on to say it's "4x as many pixels" ... since when was double the same thing as four times?

This is covered repeatedly on this forum. Raw number of pixels is not "resolution". Resolution is a measure per linear inch/cm/etc. Number of pixels is just number of pixels, resolution puts those pixels in a physical size context to tell you how "detailed" the output theoretically can be. Twice the resolution = 4x the number of pixels, because--again--resolution is a LINEAR measure.