“We have it from a reliable source that a version of the 3G iPhone’s firmware has been released — possibly for carrier partners currently field-testing the device — and has since been dissected,” Ryan Block reports for Engadget.
Hardware details include:
• Infineon PMB6952 / S-GOLD3 six-band UMTS / HSDPA transceiver
• Murata LMRX3JCA-479 tri-band amplifier (we’re assuming for the 3G)
• Sony SP9T antenna switch for GSM / UMTS dual mode
• ARM 1176JZF-S – Main CPU (same as in 1st gen iPhone)
• Skyworks 77427 chip – UMTS / HSDPA tx 1900MHz, rx 2100MHz
• Skyworks 77414 chip – UMTS / HSDPA 1900MHz
• Skyworks 77413 chip – UMTS / HSDPA 850MHz
• UMTS Power Saving option – on or off
• Hooks for Global Locate Library (GLL), software that handles A-GPS related commands for the host processor
More info here.
Sure, but without Windows Mobile or the Blackberry OS?
Suck on that, Mac dorks. <crescendo>
Pish tosh. I’m waiting for Mr. Jobs’ keynote for the real scoop.
@Ampar
That’s a pretty good Zune Tang imitation !
Make that “MAC” dorks, and I’m right behind you.
Oops. MAC dorks!
BTW, has anyone collected from Ray’s 2¢ on every post?
It does add up.
*sigh*
I was really hoping for it to for some random reason support 1700/2100 so I could unlock it and use it with T-Mobile’s new 3G, especially since at the end of the year, I’m moving to Vegas, which is one of the markets that is (supposedly) getting 3G this year.
Hmmm. Maybe I’ll just have to buy an EDGE iPhone on the cheap once the new one’s out.
Or maybe this firmware leak’s crap/incomplete?
I’m hoping for that one. Especially since (correct me if I’m wrong), I believe Japan’s 3G runs on 1700/2100. And Softbank is selling the iPhone in Japan. So here’s to hopin.
I don’t need GPs; I know where I am.
GPS
iPhone 2 is bound to be an improvement on the first.
I’ll just be happy to consolidate from 2 crappy devices, cell phone and Palm TX (with charge/sync cables … yeah, I still use a Palm) down to one unit.
I’ll still stick with my 80GB iPod though. There’s no way the iPhone will have similar capcity.
I just wish Apple would offer the thing through different providers.
Thanks, Ampar! I just might take the rest of the day off.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Zune Tang, you poor shmock, you must have no friends at all to be hanging around people you hate. If you had some friends, you would be hanging with them on some Microsoft News site celebrating Windows Vista.
Has anyone seen ZT and Ampar in the same room?
awesome, I for one would love a gps/google maps tie in, one less device to worry about.
@Scott in Japan and Zune Tang
Actually, Ampar is poking fun at that dork Krakow.
The only things I’m looking for are software improvements. Universal landscape keyboard and copy & paste mainly. You can’t tell me I’m asking for much. Shit, what I want shouldn’t have even taken a year.
“Has anyone seen ZT and Ampar in the same room?”
@Roberto
But you don’t know where you are going.
Go ahead Zune Tang. Take the rest of the day off.
You always crack me up!!!
I don’t understand why everyone is so desperate for 3G; what about 802.11n? Yes, it would be nice to have more speed when out and about, but what about at home and the office? I suppose I don’t lead as an exciting life as everyone else, but those are the two places I am the most.
Oh yes he does… he’s going to cross the border, and everyone in Nogales knows where that is.
“I just might take the rest of the day off.”
NOOOO ! ! ! There might be a fourteen year old that needs you to squirt “Ridin’ The Storm Out” to his Zune ! !
Call me old fashion but anyone heard of maps? Those paper things? Yes I am dating myself here and admitting to being a bit behind the times. GPS is a nice touch but when was the last time you were lost really. Ok out hiking or camping maybe but I’d bet ZT’s right hand no one has ever gotten lost looking for a latte. I do admit GPS is a nice touch but if you can find anyplace with it wouldn’t “someone” be able to find you with it. Yes that fragrance is a brief whiff of paranoia.
“Yes I am dating myself here . . .”
So, who pays for the dinner?
(j/k)
Smartphones have GPS; therefore, the iPhone, being the Creme de la Creme of Smartphones, must have GPS.
Anyway, if Apple included paper maps, the packaging would be huge.