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iPhone 3G S Specs Surface Online
Techtree News Staff, Jun 11, 2009 1305 hrs ISTT-Mobile Netherlands accidentally shows up iPhone 3G S specifications
Apple unveiled the new iPhone 3G S (where S stands for Speed) on Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 at San Francisco. Even though claims about new iPhone being up to two times faster than its previous models have been made, Apple prefers to be secretive about the hardware specifications as usual. However, T-Mobile Netherlands accidentally showed the hardware information about the new iPhone 3G S.
So far, none of the Apple product teardown specialists have been able grab an iPhone 3G S and open it up to check the internal hardware. The T-Mobile Netherland site shows that iPhone 3G S has 600MHz CPU and packs 256MB memory. As we noted earlier, the CPU in iPhone 3G is clocked at 412MHz, lower than that of 2nd Gen iPod Touch.
The iPhone 3G had Samsung S5L8900 chip processor with PowerVR MBX graphics processor coming from Imagination Technologies, acquired by Apple last December. Anandlal Shimpi of AnandTech believes that the new iPhone 3G S has 65nm process System-on-Chip ARM Cortex A8 CPU which is power efficient and gives high performance. In short, the processor can handle more tasks at the same time.
For better graphics, Apple is believed to add new PowerVR SGX graphics processor that supports OpenGL ES 2.0 for running more complete 2D/3D games. Same GPU is said to be added in Palm Pre. Also, iPhone 3G S has 256MB RAM which is double to 128MB RAM found in iPhone 3G.
All three the new CPU, new GPU and more RAM will significantly contribute in higher processing performance but will also draw more power. Hereby, it's quite interesting to point out that Apple promised longer battery life (despite the new hardware).
All purported reports about the internal iPhone 3G S hardware would only be verified when Apple starts shipping them on June 19.
So far, none of the Apple product teardown specialists have been able grab an iPhone 3G S and open it up to check the internal hardware. The T-Mobile Netherland site shows that iPhone 3G S has 600MHz CPU and packs 256MB memory. As we noted earlier, the CPU in iPhone 3G is clocked at 412MHz, lower than that of 2nd Gen iPod Touch.
The iPhone 3G had Samsung S5L8900 chip processor with PowerVR MBX graphics processor coming from Imagination Technologies, acquired by Apple last December. Anandlal Shimpi of AnandTech believes that the new iPhone 3G S has 65nm process System-on-Chip ARM Cortex A8 CPU which is power efficient and gives high performance. In short, the processor can handle more tasks at the same time.
For better graphics, Apple is believed to add new PowerVR SGX graphics processor that supports OpenGL ES 2.0 for running more complete 2D/3D games. Same GPU is said to be added in Palm Pre. Also, iPhone 3G S has 256MB RAM which is double to 128MB RAM found in iPhone 3G.
All three the new CPU, new GPU and more RAM will significantly contribute in higher processing performance but will also draw more power. Hereby, it's quite interesting to point out that Apple promised longer battery life (despite the new hardware).
All purported reports about the internal iPhone 3G S hardware would only be verified when Apple starts shipping them on June 19.
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