ZDNet Germany is reporting that Intel head Hannes Schwaderer said that an upcoming iPhone will have an Atom processor and a larger screen. I’m calling bullshit.
I don’t care if you’re the head of the Yakuza — you don’t talk about iPhone unless Steve is sitting on your shoulders and controlling your mouth with wires.
The new screen is rumored to be 720 x 480 pixels which is a bit more widescreen than the current 480×320. My biggest problem, however, is that this was said by an Intel head in Germany at some Intel event. This isn’t exactly the burning bush on Mount Olympus. It could happen, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
UPDATE – Just noticed my pixel error but I think this shows you that given a constant pixel density the new iPhone probably won’t be four times as big as the old one.
I call bullshit that the iPhone is 640×480 right now. Some Windows Mobile phones are 800×480, but the iPhone is 320×480:
http://developer.apple.com/webapps/designingcontent.php
Just getting up to 640×480 would be cool, but I’m not holding my breath.
absolutely right, Steven. Just rechecked. I was looking at the wrong stat. Thanks for the catch.
John,
In the German article you quote it says “Hannes Schwaderer heute bestätigt” with “bestätigt” meaning “confirmed”.
To clear up some statements here: http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/05/14/will-iphone-2-get-intels-atom-ja/
Hannes Schwaderer is Intel Germany’s boss and he made that statement in Munich on May 14th German time: According to him, there WILL be a new iPhone with Intel Atom in it.
He himself doesn’t go into details though. He just seems to have stated the iPhone will be bigger but not because of the Intel product but because of its bigger display. The article goes on speculating after that.
Now ZD Germany posted a new article:
http://www.zdnet.de/news/hardware/0,39023109,39190870,00.htm?h
Intel now talks of a misunderstanding. Their PR guy Mike Cato says to ZD that Schwaderer was talking about mobile Internet devices in general and mentioned the iPhone2 as an example. Cato is quoted as saying “Intel does not know anything about products from other companies and therefore is not able to make any statements about them.”
Hey, no prob. And, by the way, Apple could change the pixel density. It makes a lot of sense when you are staring at Chinese characters, for example. And it is hardly novel:
http://www.pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdalist&list=vga_plus
And plain VGA:
http://www.pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdalist&list=vga
While not novel, it is also not common. Perhaps the HTC Touch Diamond will be the first phone with VGA screen or better to sell in millions. I saw the G900 last year with 800×480pixels and fingerprint reader, but it was expensive (and kinda buggy from what I heard). It did have some cool things like locking the device when your bluetooth headset disappears.
Or perhaps (and I hope) the 3G iPhone will be the first to have a hi-res display to sell in the millions…
the jesus phone isn’t a jesus phone until i dnt have to jailbreak it to make it one.
John,
In the German article you quote it says “Hannes Schwaderer heute bestätigt” with “bestätigt” meaning “confirmed”.
To clear up some statements here: http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/05/14/will-iphone-2-get-intels-atom-ja/
Hannes Schwaderer is Intel Germany’s boss and he made that statement in Munich on May 14th German time: According to him, there WILL be a new iPhone with Intel Atom in it.
He himself doesn’t go into details though. He just seems to have stated the iPhone will be bigger but not because of the Intel product but because of its bigger display. The article goes on speculating after that.
Now ZD Germany posted a new article:
http://www.zdnet.de/news/hardware/0,39023109,39190870,00.htm?h
Intel now talks of a misunderstanding. Their PR guy Mike Cato says to ZD that Schwaderer was talking about mobile Internet devices in general and mentioned the iPhone2 as an example. Cato is quoted as saying “Intel does not know anything about products from other companies and therefore is not able to make any statements about them.”