Iphone Hardware - Good News?

[rodrigosales]

http://www.iphonefreak.com/2007/07/iphone-hardware.html


and I have an Iphone ... :)

[mysticusa]

Good news for you :)

Bad news, apple probably wont enable them until they are 100% sure 3g was battery drainer factor that s what they said b4, probably radio or gps things is also another software factors they want to sell :) with new accessories introduced... more money more money.... :D

good news if with jtag f/w is reversed, than there might be a way to enable these features, however apple probably has other plans for these features to be used :)

h/w or s/w companies to be licenced (=more money in) to use them

[petemag]

That is pretty f***ing cool! Excuse my language...

I just got a lot more happy looking at my shiny soon to be, implemented into my car, GPS iPhone! Let's hope that firmware's due to release soon!

Could anyone confirm the fact that it's already built in?

[mysticusa]

Nope it is just based on a french analyst report that is in assumption of the chip (spesific model) they used is known to have those capabilities, therefore iphone should have these capabilities as well...

So it may or may not be implemented for the iphone's infeneon chip...

[petemag]

Nope it is just based on a french analyst report that is in assumption of the chip (spesific model) they used is known to have those capabilities, therefore iphone should have these capabilities as well...

So it may or may not be implemented for the iphone's infeneon chip...

Damn.... got really excited there... oh well, switch back to your unlocking heads, ladies...

[Lardnapkin]

I just want it to spit out a Martini when I press the youtube icon..I am sure they thought of that too

[abcslayer]

Sorry, but you've forgot about the tranceivers, without transceiver implemented the DSPs inside BB = 0

[kurro]

oh boy! maybe they'll also unlock some of the capabilities illustrated in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xXNoB3t8vM

[997TT]

http://www.iphonefreak.com/2007/07/iphone-hardware.html


and I have an Iphone ... :)

Can't say much about the Java and MMS part but 3G is not firmware upgradeable because one necessary hardware part is missing, we discussed this already in another thread.

So just relax guys, you have a great piece of technology but no 3G capability, sorry.

[tendo]

thats awesome news, who needs 3g though. Im happy with WIFI, and 2.5G edge.

[JaS]

I hope that Apple will enable these features for iPhone 1.0 owners, and not just for the next version of the iPhone.

[997TT]

thats awesome news, who needs 3g though. Im happy with WIFI, and 2.5G edge.

Yeah, everybody is happy with EDGE until they see how HSDPA "flies". :D

Btw: one feature I really expected from Apple on the iPhone was the possibility to buy iTunes stuff directly from the iPhone, incl. downloading it to the iPhone.
Now I realize why Apple didn't offer this feature: you can't offer such a feature without mobile broadband and very high download speeds. It is a pitty.
Also disappointing: the pathetic 2 MP camera without video capture capability and the missing A2DP bluetooth profile, a MUST for an iPod-like gadget.

[parkertseng]

wondering if the wiki dev team can release those hidden features without apple?

[JohnBond]

What hidden features, wasn't the 2nd reply to this thread telling you guys this wasn't fact just an analysts thoughts and hopes...

[Kheldour]

Yeah, everybody is happy with EDGE until they see how HSDPA "flies". :D

That's true. 1.8Mbit is like DSL in your pocket. And T-Mobile GER plans to upgrade their network up to 7.0Mbit 'til 2009. Who need's DSL :D

But, that doesn't mean, that Apple will introduce a HSDPA-capable iPhone. If we are lucky, then there will be a 3G-iPhone for 2008. But again, what about battery life?

I'm a power user and I'm pretty happy that my phones have a soft-switch to disable 3G for the sake of battery life.

Khel

[dogzilla]

Frankly, the speeds don't bother me much. Sure it'd be nice to have huge bandwidth in my pocket, but I firmly believe that a) This isn't a technological limitation, it's a business/political one, and b) US carriers are such absolute assclowns that any serious speed like you describe would only be available to 0.005% of the population due to the ridiculous monthly charges that AT&T or whomever would impose on us. Might work great in Europe or the Far East, but here in the states we'd get a technologically advanced, beautiful phone that we'd all hide in our sock drawers so we wouldn't get charged $500/month.

I can work around everything else, but I *would* dearly love to have a GPS in there, and one available to software. Is it confirmed that the iPhone does/does not include GPS capability? That's pretty much the only thing that would cause me buyer's regret if a GPS-enabled iPhone came out in 3 months.