Alleged next iPhone component shot reveals Apple A5 chip
0. phoneArena posted on 19 Sep 2011, 03:11
We've been sent a link to a snapshot posted on Weibo, the Chinese take on Twitter, that shows an A5 marking on a chipset that allegedly belongs either to the next iPhone, or the rumored affordable iPhone 4S version...
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24. tech010101x (unregistered) posted on 19 Sep 2011, 18:44 0 0
Grand Central Dispatch as well as NSOperation are both available for iOS. These are the primary idioms given to developers for multiprocessing in Cocoa for both iOS and Mac OS X. There are many tutorials about this for programmers, but the gist is that the technology is intended to help programmers write parallel processing applications, including where one does not know how many processors to leverage beforehand. The operating system can help make that determination at runtime. Which means that current iOS applications can be written to take advantage of multi-processing if/when such hardware ships.
Of course, in both Android and iOS, it is possible to write multithreaded applications at a lower level, but these APIs are intended to make it a matter of course that iOS applications can leverage multi-processing when available.
BTW, it is a mistake to think that just because the user interface is presenting primarily one task at a time that the operating system is single threaded. Apple made a design choice for size of screen, processing power, and battery consumption to limit 3rd party applications. Apple's applications are of course not restricted, but they have their own controls and metrics.
13. Droid_X_Doug posted on 19 Sep 2011, 09:34 0 0
My guess is that the photo is part of the internals for the iPhone 5. The 4+/S/whatever will have the internals from the current iPhone 4 with probably less storage (8Gb) and maybe a lower capacity battery to help in the cost-cutting area. You may also see a plastic screen with the glass screen going to the iPhone 5.
18. greytux (unregistered) posted on 19 Sep 2011, 11:13 0 0
After changing the contrast it is quite obvious that the "5" was photoshopped in...
http://imgur.com/tinFU
22. Wing (unregistered) posted on 19 Sep 2011, 16:28 0 0
the guy said he did not own the picture, it was downloaded fromhttp://www.pandaxtech.com/news
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23. Sebbelcher (unregistered) posted on 19 Sep 2011, 18:17 0 0
If this is the iPhone 5 then there are some other notable things we can see:
1. It is White.
2. The blue surface on the left of the picture I would assume is the back of the display and it appears to be almost edge to edge.
27. moneymakerjnr (unregistered) posted on 21 Sep 2011, 08:26 0 0
U think Steve Jobs is that foolish to launch an iPhone 4S - 512MB of ram, 3.5" screen and all - but will only have the A5 chip and an 8MP camera on Oct 4th as rumors say? He raised the company wen everyone thought it was dead and now he's just gonna let it go into thin air? He knows what is best for the company.
28. Beerski (unregistered) posted on 21 Sep 2011, 09:52 0 0
These arguments against apple have always been the same over the years, not just for the iphone but for its computers too:
"this imac has outdated hardware" " your paying twice as much for something slower, with hardware a generation behind" blah blah. Really, why does everyone just look at processor speed and ram and absolutely nothing else? it's a PHONE people, not a super computer. who cares if it's not the fastest PHONE on the market? all the other companies just copycat apple's designs anyway, they always have. do you think smartphones were this popular before the first iphone came out? the answer is NO. just because it's the most popular device doesn't make it automatically evil.
29. jdawg (unregistered) posted on 21 Sep 2011, 18:51 0 0
Honest who gives a steaming pile of sh*t what's in the next iPhone? I don't....
30. Skybox (unregistered) posted on 23 Sep 2011, 10:14 0 0
I've had all previous iPhone models and currently the iPhone 4. However. The new Samsung Galaxy S2 is Sooooooo calling my name on Oct 2. It has more eveything than my current iPhone.
