New PowerVR Chip Means iPhone HD Getting Closer?
We’ve made no bones about it, TiPb wants us some iPhone HD this June! Looks like the stars are aligning closer and closer to give it to us as well, what with faster 802.11n mobile WiFi chips, and rumors of quad-core cpu’s for iPhone 3.0. Now that OpenCL supporting PowerVR graphics core boost might be on the way as well. Says Apple Insider:
Imagination Technologies has quietly slipped out word this week of a new mobile chip known as the PowerVR SGX543. [...] In practice, the technology is powerful enough to push 35 million polygons per second and 1 billion pixels per second and can thus easily drive HD resolution video output, including when 3D is involved.
HD aside, any gamers looking forward to that kind of quad-core, super graphical powered fun?
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January 10th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
HA! Do that blackberry/palm/android
January 10th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Hi Rene,
Looks like we both agree on this one. We ran a similiar story today.
Regards,
-Bill http://www.MyiPhonePlace.com
January 10th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
See you in june for the next model ! But not sure for quad core…
January 10th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
come on………do you reallllllllly need HD on a screen that fits in your hand?
January 10th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
quad core by June:o I’d have to see to believe it..
January 10th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
You’ll have to look through a magnifying glass to see a significant difference with HD on such a small screen. The naked eye has it’s limits.
Not saying they won’t do it… but it’s pointless.
January 10th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
I hope this is just a rumor. I think iPhone users would like cut and paste and some other essentials before having the need to drop $400 on a new phone.
January 10th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Do you think AT&T will allow people tknipgrade to the new phone like they did when the 3g one came out
January 10th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
This is Apple’s strategy to take back the desktop market. They will do it by putting the PC into your pocket.
They need a few things first:
Just imagine not having a desktop PC. I just sit down in my chair and the display, keyboard, mouse all communicate with the phone. And I can play HD movies, games, etc. with performance better than today’s PCs.
Apple is making two business plays here. (read the book The Innovator’s Dilemma)
Don’t hit an existing market head on… create a new market that absorbs the existing market. The existing market is desktop PCs and the new market is “handheld wireless device + fast computer”.
The new device starts at the bottom technologically… the device is “good enough” for most applications. But in the future it grows and eats away at the PC market.
So I say put more PC features into the handhelds!
January 10th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
@Charles Malby:
Yeah… The entire population will just test games and review movies for a living. That makes sense.
January 10th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
@steve: LOL
@charles: i think i’ll keep my desktop / laptop for now
January 11th, 2009 at 3:24 am
I Want!
January 11th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I just got my iPhone 3G and now there may be a newer one?
Hopefully it’s just a rumor and isn’t true.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
@Raul G: its technologys its always getting better which means new products have to come out especially with apple they are always updating there products just like the original ipohne they came oit with the 3 g a year later so expect a new ipohne to come out every year
January 12th, 2009 at 3:35 am
I also don’t see the point of HD (but man, this website pushes it!). However, the advantages for gaming are obvious.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:22 am
Idthink apple will throw out a new iPhone ANY time soon. Probably in ‘10 of something but definately not right now.