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Quote: Originally Posted by bavlondon2 Can any techies here comment on how this platform compares with the OMAP TI3*** chipsets? I would suspect it is very similar in spec. What I find very interesting from an EE perspective is the...

Quote: Originally Posted by coasterswim If the materials were available on Tuesday and were 6 weeks early, that means OS 3.0 won't launch until after July 7, right? I think the 6 weeks means from last years launch of the Iphone 3G,...

Quote: Originally Posted by GTL215 OLED is expensive and unproven. While Apple leads in ways such as dropping SCSI and floopy drives before anyone else, they also tend to shy away from "bags of hurt" as we all know. I don't...

Quote: Originally Posted by GTL215 great point. The folks who created HD radio used that same gimmick. The HD in HD Radio doesn't stand for High Definition, it's actually just two pretty little letters used to fool people. What they're...

The LG contract was upfront money to guarantee future supply of unspecified displays. Could be for any product. Apple did a similar contract strategy for Flash memory.

Quote: Originally Posted by m2002brian I'm starting to think with all the clamoring about what the iPhone (software) can and can not do. That maybe it's been a big blinder to the HW side of things. The thing about it is, it could just...

Quote: Originally Posted by m2002brian I'm starting to think with all the clamoring about what the iPhone (software) can and can not do. That maybe it's been a big blinder to the HW side of things. The thing about it is, it could just...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Anyone have any ideas what Apple wanted with PA Semi? Surely, the most common answer is using their staff’s ARM knowledge to create better chips with ARM CPUs, but what specifically could they do...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism 1) I was going to ask you if it was used in any product yet, which usually needs to happen before Apple with their excessive needs pre model type, but I decided to look it up first. The Palm Pre and...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I think the earliest we may see ARMv7 is with the Touch. After all, Apple is pitting it a super gaming console. We know it has a faster clocked CPU and they have pushed the games pretty hard. I...