Posts by Shrike

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX  The time between updates for iOS 6 seem very long.   It's typically been about 3 months. So it would be a normal time frame if 6.1 comes out this month.   In the...

Quote: In Munster's models, the $6.5 billion in revenue a hypothetical inexpensive iPhone would add to Apple's bottom line would be about 3 percent of the company's total revenue. ... He believes that...

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69  It will be real interesting to see how the GPU is coupled up. One avenue they have for the iPad is to use the dual cores but implement a much faster GPU. I know iPad 4 is a long ways...

Quote:Originally Posted by huyao20123   Meybe its quad core ARM Cortex-A15... No. Geekbench says dual core around 1 or 1.1 GHz. Everyone's (Linley Gwinnep and Anand Shimpi) agreed that it's a custom design core by Apple. Ie, a...

Looks like the A6 in the iPhone is a 1 GHz custom dual-core ARM CPU. GPU is still unknown (Anandtech thinks the likeliest thing is PowerVR SGX543MP3). ARM microarchitecture is unknown. 1 GB of RAM in the POP.   From...

I'm keeping my NeXTSTEP 3 boxes forever. It's too bad Apple has been pragmatic about the OS X UI. It could use some freshening up but with user drag such as it is, it'll never happen.

Man, the prediction business is hard! Something is afoot.

Quote: Originally Posted by ziadjk Anybody notice from the photo that the mute switch is on the same side as the camera? Never on an iPhone has that been the case. Thoughts? The story on this is that a big screen, super thin Apple...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Not bad. This with an aluminum back would be fine. I like the 2007 iPhone with rounded sides better than the iPad corners though. A passthrough for radio signals still is an ugly problem to deal...

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Think about it, if you went out to hire a carpenter and you had a choice between one guy with scratch free, unmarked tools and one that had an assortment of well used tools who would you hire? ...