It's been a few days since there's been an iPhone rumor, so here goes folks. DigiTimes has posted a component list, complete with suppliers, for Apple's inevitable next-gen iPhone. 
Source: DigiTimes.
The sources are all from the industry supplying the components to Apple, and they state that the new "iPhone 3.0" will be launched mid-2009, and shipments will kick off in May, with the first being in the amount of 5 million units. DigiTimes states, "TSMC have landed foundry orders for GSM EDGE power amplifiers, Bluetooth ICs and 3.2-megapixel OmniVision CMOS image sensor (CIS) used in the upcoming iPhone model, indicated the sources. Xintec will handle the packaging and testing service for the CIS whereas VisEra will manufacture on-chip color filters for the CIS."
This is just another rumor in the pot, which again seems to indicate a new iPhone will be released this year. It's pretty obvious now, but it's always nice to see more (rumored) proof that it's happening.
What do you mean "still"? The previous models all had 2.0MP cameras.
Exactly - most people don't understand this however and are like "OMG 10mp!" little do they realise for printing their 6x4's they only need about 2 if the camera take decent quality pictures. Of course having more gives benefits such as cropping means it doesn't become pixelated if you want just a fraction of the photo, or on the off chance you print out bigger. My camera is only 6mp though and I print out at A3 occasionally with good photo quality fine.
I'm sick of people complaining about not having some crazy high quality camera in your phone. It's meant for spur of the moment pictures not to take stock photography. 3.2 is fine.
I'm sick of people complaining about not having some crazy high quality camera in your phone. It's meant for spur of the moment pictures not to take stock photography. 3.2 is fine.
The 3.2megapixel is fine for the average Joe but Iphone is a premium-price product.
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What do you mean by A-GPS only?
What kind of other systems do you want? Glonass? Galileo?
If you knew anything about GPS you'd know the A in A-GPS means Assisted. Meaning it can use normal GPS satalites but the system by itself will prolly take 1-2mins to obtain a lock. With A-GPS the phone downloads information about satalites location so it locks in 10-15 seconds.
Don't confuse assisted with triangulation which uses cell towers to kinda guess where you are.
A-GPS = regular GPS
See SHoTTa35's comment.
See SHoTTa35's comment.
Yes but the iPhones GPS fails miserably if it can't connect to cell towers.
It is sadly reliant on triangulation initially, if it can't do that it breaks.
No GPS for you (as a fully paid contract 3G user so I can speak from experience.)
Normal GPS does sound a lot better.
Normal GPS does sound a lot better.
No idea honestly but the iPhone GPS is utterly reliant on a cellphone connection, stick it Airplane mode (Wifi still works) and GPS is gone ( for no reason)
Normal GPS does sound a lot better.
In theory the iPhone GPS should work without assistance from the cellular network. Windows Mobile phone also have A-GPS but they work with or without assistance from triangulation. On most WM6.1 ROMs triangulation is disabled by default. Instead, there's a program called "QuickGPS" that downloads satelite location data to the phone and stores it for a week.
It is sadly reliant on triangulation initially, if it can't do that it breaks.
No GPS for you (as a fully paid contract 3G user so I can speak from experience.)
Well bear in mind the maps aren't stored on the phone, they're downloaded as you go, so having no signal at all might have something to do with it not working.
Normal GPS does sound a lot better.
But A-GPS is better than GPS no matter how you look at it. That's like comparing two identical cars, one coming with a free massage, and saying "I've heard that if you don't get the massage the car runs faster"
Edit: 3.2MP... well judging by the 2MP on the current iPhone, i'm sure this 3.2MP will be more like a 5MP because the 2MP is actually pretty good.
This is 2009 apple come on , GPS has been common in PDA Phones since 2002 with the early Acer models .
This is 2009 apple come on , GPS has been common in PDA Phones since 2002 with the early Acer models .
A-GPS is the same as GPS but it uses tower triangulation instead of the usual warm up that most GPS systems need. Get your facts straight, it's just as accurate as a regular gps.
I'm anxious - only as so far as being anxious about a shorter device life. OLED is still immature technology, I would sooner wait for it to get the bugs worked out before spending money on an expensive device with said technology.
Bugs?
From looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_light...e#Disadvantages it looks like "5 years at 8 hours a day" is a possible limit. I don't think anyone uses a mobile or PDA's display even close to that much.
I am planning on updating my Zune 30 and 2 80gb ones to the new one it looks sweet
3.2 is larger than alot of people's desktop resolutions! autofocus > megapixels EVERY time.
Finally, someone who's not blinded by this caracteristic...
But obviously yeah there's a myth with that.. and it has to do with the average ignorance
But obviously yeah there's a myth with that.. and it has to do with the average ignorance
Point is, megapixels in phones are simple interpolated, so you probably only get 2MP in your 5MP phone, it just gets blown up by the image processor to be 5MP, losing quality along the way... Hence having a 3.2MP sensor is better than having a 2MP one and marketing it as 5MP... At least that's my understanding...
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Actually this list came out last week, so before Zune HD leak.
Besides the Zune isn't even a competitor against the iPhone. Now if Apple announced some new iPod touch with similar features as the Zune HD, sure that would be as those aren't due for a refresh until the fall.
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