11th April 2010
Last week Apple announced the new variant of their portable operating system, iPhone 3GS’>iPhone OS 4.0. For the first meter, this introduces multitasking, and it also supports a new gambling net and adds more customisation options than ever before.
The new operating system volition tally fully on the Apple iPhone 3G S, the Apple iPad and the latest multiplication of iPod Touch devices, older handsets may also be able to run some of the features too. But inevitably, the iPhone OS 4.0 announcement leads to meditation about whatever may go into the next generation iPhone.
One matter that we rich person learned from all the previous versions of the iPhone is that Apple father’t like to mess hall around too much with the designing. So, to this end, the next generation iPhone volition look pretty much like the previous ones. In the past tense, this hasn’t really mattered.. but one of the keystone areas where the existing iPhone is looking dated is the display. The 3.5" 320 x 480 pel panel is pretty goodness, but manufacturers of high gear-end smartphones ar putt more pixels in now, to the extent that any bounty gimmick is expected to rich person a 480 x 800 pel display at lower limit.
Possibly the benchmark device when it comes to HD screens is the HTC HD2, this comes with a 4.3" 480 x 800 pel panel. Can Apple compete with something like the HD2? Well, not really. The HD2 is quite a lot bigger than the iPhone, and in fact the 4.3" display from the HD2 would fill almost the stallion movement of the iPhone’s case, as the diagram on the right shows.
Because Apple North Korean won’t want to change the size of it of the new iPhone, the blind size of it volition rich person to be limited. It’s possible that Apple mightiness squeezing in a slightly larger display, but our guesswork is that it volition be no larger than 3.7 inches.
The next question is what solving would Apple go for? Most likely, Apple will wish to maintain maximum rapport with old applications, so the simplest solution from that point of survey would be to two-base hit the solving to 640 x 960 pixels. "Old style" iPhone applications would scale well from this as they would simply display on 2 pixels instead of unity. One disadvantage is that exhibit panels of this resolution are very rare, but with the volumes that Apple can offer then it would be simple to have a panel usage made. Apple ar unlikely to go for a mini version of the 1024 x 768 panel in the iPad because the expression ratio is different from the iPhone.
The next generation "iPhone HD" will probably use the same 1GHz mainframe that is found in the iPad. Expect more RAM in the iPhone HD too, as this will aid with multitasking. Thomas More Flash memory board for repositing would be nice, Apple mightiness offer a 64GB variant of the new iPhone as they do with the iPad.
The 3.2 megapixel camera on the iPhone 3G S is surprisingly good presumption its limited solving, but Apple desperately motivation to rise it to 5 megapixels or better. A movement-face video camera is an exterior possible action, cipher really makes video calls.. but then Apple are perhaps the sort of troupe who would be able to shuffle video recording calling popular.
Of course, nothing is guaranteed with Apple, and we don’t even know when the next generation iPhone will be announced, although the shoemaker’s last 2 were announced in June. In the meantime, keep up to date by subscribing to Mobile Gazette for more newsworthiness.