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- khabba, on 01/09/2009, -10/+159"Meanwhile, Imagination Technologies is announcing a multi-core GPU that could be suitable for iPhone use"
This will propel the iPhones 3D capability's well beyond that of that of the PSP. Maybe play iCrysis in the near future? Who knows..maybe we'll even get 'Copy & Paste' functionality. - BlindingDawn, on 01/09/2009, -20/+131Steve Jobs: Waddaya got there?
Imagination Technologies: This is your car.
Steve Jobs: My car? I said a 10 second car, not a 10 minute car.
Woz: You could push this across the finish line, or...tow it?
Imagination Technologies: No faith.
Steve Jobs: Oh, I have faith in you, but this isn't a junkyard, this is a garage.
Imagination Technologies: Pop the hood.
Steve Jobs: Pop the hood?
Imagination Technologies: Pop the hood.
Woz: Quad Core GPU, no *****.
Imagination Technologies: What did I tell you?
Steve Jobs: I retract my previous statement.
Woz: This will decimate all AFTER you put about fifteen grand in it or more, and if we have to, overnight parts from Japan.
Steve Jobs: Put it on my tab at Harry's. - SneakyNinja, on 01/09/2009, -5/+80Nice Fast and the Furious reference. (For those that couldn't remember what movie this was from) ;)
- FireSlash, on 01/09/2009, -2/+68"maybe we'll even get 'Copy & Paste' functionality."
You need at least 8 cores for that, this firmware only supports 4. - RMoore08, on 01/09/2009, -1/+51No, no you don't.
- Sherman901, on 01/09/2009, -5/+54It's an easy to forget movie.
- cloudcity, on 01/09/2009, -1/+46I want a car stereo head unit that has a recessed front, which the iPhone would snap into horizontally.
From here, the iPHone would go into "car mode", and you would have access to a different menu, with larger buttons...
GPS, incoming calls, and of course music would all be handled by the iPhone.
When you arrived at your destination, pop your iphone out, all charged up, with no theft risk.
Why the crap has nobody built this yet!?!??! - Bega, on 01/09/2009, -12/+51And I ***** just bought one. I hate tech sometimes.
- Modestexcuse, on 01/09/2009, -4/+42Nothing plays Crysis.
- Harrison88, on 01/09/2009, -9/+46It still only has one button. That means PSP > iPhone for playing games.
- michaelphw, on 01/09/2009, -12/+45What?
- insty, on 01/09/2009, -5/+31Mac "Insider"
The same guys to bring us iPhone Nano, a new Mac Mini, Apple TV, and a new Mac Pro @ Macworld 09.
Multicore for perhaps a tablet? Of course you just read this confidential information here, so it has to be true. - ElAmo, on 01/09/2009, -6/+30Why are they implementing multi-core firmware now? Surely Apple will ride their iPhone 3G success for at least a year.
- Chirp08, on 01/09/2009, -3/+26You forgot this part though:
*Bill Gates walks up*
Steve Jobs: Roads' closed PC Boy. - zjbird, on 01/09/2009, -1/+21Yes, but you will never be able to copy and paste.
- jthei, on 01/09/2009, -1/+19newbzilla
- utnow, on 01/09/2009, -2/+19Crysis plays you!
- serif69, on 01/09/2009, -1/+18I need NOS
- KibibyteBrain, on 01/09/2009, -1/+17You are thinking in the Intel processor world way of thought about performance per watt. But other architectures like ARM have better power management features. So you could have a quad-core ARM chip that normally had 3 of the cores almost completely off, drawing no power. But then, in a demanding situation like a game, it could fire up more cores. This is actually a very common sort of feature for ARM based embedded processors these days.
- xsecretfiles, on 01/09/2009, -1/+163 years??? wtf did you get?
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -2/+15He bought the Apple *****.
- Coded1, on 01/09/2009, -1/+13Must be a Canadian :( Over here you can't even get one of the cheapo phones for free unless its 3 years
Thanks Rogers! - jeremyczu, on 01/09/2009, -13/+25I call BS on this story. Multi-core chips make no sense for mobile. Going from one core to two lowers the performance per watt, and the difference from two to 4 is even bigger. This is low quality Macrumors.com crap. If desktops can't use multi-core chips efficiently, what makes anyone think that mobile chips will? There's a reason that you will never see a quad core atom, and it has nothing to do with the cost.
- alexvalentine, on 01/09/2009, -3/+14I'm sure the timing of this rumor has nothing to do with the impressive demo of the Palm Pre. ;)
- TVarmy, on 01/09/2009, -4/+15Apple basically wants the iPhone to become a mobile computer, with them as the exclusive software market. To keep that up, the iPhone needs to stay powerful or else other devices will take over with cheaper or free apps with a legit system to install apps without the manufacturer's consent.
Plus, the current gen of smart phones have a lot of iPhone imitations, and while the real iPhone may have a better multitouch interface and UI in general (due to a mix of patents and research), that sort of thing usually doesn't bother consumers until they've bought the device. In terms of getting a cheap phone to renew your two year contract, the imitators are king, and, at first glance, are the same as the iPhone.
Plus, Apple's been hinting at wanting this to be their way into the handheld games market. Four cores offers a lot of power and should give them a big lead. Since it carries out the function of a phone, iPod, and PDA in one device, it'd be a smaller and effectively cheaper alternative since most people want or need the other functions. And this looks to be as powerful or more powerful than existing devices. The iPhone is already considered to be as powerful as a Dreamcast, and that's with one core. The PSP is like a slightly smarter PS2, and a Dreamcast is slightly dumber than a PS2, so if these four cores are around the same clock speed as the existing processor, things should get pretty interesting.
Also, I think it should make the UI faster and more responsive, and I think the AGPS features should work faster, too, thanks to more processing to crunch the data faster. ArsTechnica has an article expaining how resource intensive GPS and AGPS can be. It's an interesting read, and explains the reasons smartphones are likely to become better at GPS and GPS navigation than dedicated GPS devices. - drknockrz, on 01/09/2009, -1/+11not true. at all. In fact, an outright fabrication. Buried.
- palmer, on 01/10/2009, -0/+10Why? You're asking this of an industry that DELETED auxiliary inputs from car radios after offering them throughout the early '90s, and didn't re-add them until FIVE YEARS after the iPod became a huge hit. And that was a 10-cent jack.
- mikusd, on 01/09/2009, -0/+10It's a rumor, yes. But not because it is on digg...
Because it is on macRUMORS.com - chkdg8, on 01/09/2009, -6/+15Damn, the OS would run so incredibly responsive while having the ability to run multiple apps in the background. With the new chip, the next gen iPhone would pretty much wipe out any competition for a good while although I don't think that Nintendo and Sony are threatened as much as ZDNet suggests. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=2745
- geedots, on 01/09/2009, -0/+9sounds way more likely that this would go into a tablet or bigger-sized iPod touch than an iPhone. why would they skip dual-cores and go straight for quad-core? with multi-GPU support added too, this doesn't sound like anything that should go into a phone.
- bondfreak05, on 01/09/2009, -0/+9You're lucky that Quad Core GPU didn't blow the welds on your intake
- d3dm, on 01/09/2009, -1/+10Get yer stinkin' phone the hell offa my lawn!
- Clinojim, on 01/09/2009, -0/+9Yep, tech in general is a ***** or get off the pot kind of deal. No matter what there's always something cooler out on the horizon. At some point you just have to dive in.
- Zippo, on 01/09/2009, -0/+9Yeah, I'm Canadian... Rogers has three-year contracts... *****, I know.
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+8Thus reducing the battery life to one hour tops
- mescad, on 01/09/2009, -0/+8The problem with waiting for the next version is that soon the 3.0 iPhone will come out, and you will finally get what you've been waiting for. Or maybe you'll have to wait for the 4.0 model. Meanwhile, others will have been enjoying their iPhone/iPhone 3G for two years, and still will get to buy the new one. What kind of phone will you have been using all that time?
When the 3G models came out, I realized that I could either get the "good enough" model, or I could use my old crappy cell for another two years while I waited for Apple to (maybe) meet my expectations. Even if this new phone comes out in six months, I'll be satisfied with the usage I've gotten out of my 3G. - mohsenxp, on 01/09/2009, -1/+8PROFITS!
- Algan, on 01/09/2009, -2/+9"Desktops can use multi cores just fine especially servers."
Gotta love this sentence... - inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+7First iPhone came out in June, second iPhone came out the next July. I have no doubt the next model will be released in the same fashion; about a year after it's predecessor.
You'll have a good 3 months of untainted use, followed by 2 months of speculation and rumors, and finished off with a month left to pawn that piece of ***** off before the new hotness is here.
Then again Apple may feel some pressure from Palm and fast-track it's release. - TehDoctor, on 01/09/2009, -3/+9Then why does ARM have a multicore processor that is more efficient that Atom?
- cwestpha, on 01/09/2009, -3/+9Truth is the iPhone is starting to get long in the tooth. With advances in flash memory doubling capacity every year at the same price, plus the explosion of new content (applications), Apple has to refresh the iPhone once a year if it wants to keep the competition behind it hardware wise.
Meanwhile Apple will continue with each refresh to keep features up to date and battery life higher with every release. Battery life alone will make Apple want to implement these new chips to extend standby time and media time alone. The increases in performance will simply be nice bonuses. - inactive, on 01/09/2009, -1/+7Yeah, I just love how i lose half my screen because my thumbs are in the way.
- dcmjzero, on 01/09/2009, -1/+7June 2007- iPhone released
July 2008- iPhone 3g released
June/July 2009- ?? - antistupid, on 01/09/2009, -1/+7quad core just kicked in yo!
- TVarmy, on 01/09/2009, -1/+7Thanks, I knew I heard it somewhere.
- immatellyouwhat, on 01/09/2009, -2/+8My iPhone 3G does great with battery life now, I text all day, browse the web maybe 1 hour a day more on the weekends, play games, check email and twitter and still have about 25% battery life at the end of the day, I am pretty sure the battery life will increase along with the GPU
- slaverynin, on 01/09/2009, -1/+7i wouldn't look for a hardware upgrade for about another year. Although since i still use the 1st Gen i'd love to see it sooner.
- iChopPryde, on 01/09/2009, -2/+8umm you are definitely getting confused with vista.
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