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New Apple iPhone In the Works, Latest Firmware Suggests
X-bit labs —
Apple is indeed working on a new hardware revision of its popular iPhone smartphone, according to the information in the latest firmware for iPhones. The new model may not necessarily be an affordable version of the device, but a redesigned version of the fully-fledged iPhone. MacRumours web-site has discovered that the latest Apple iPhone 2.x firmware contains mention of the iPhone2,1 device, which is not yet available as the original iPhone was internally called iPhone1,1, whereas the iPhone 3G was designated as iPhone1,2. The web-site claims that these numbers do not change ...
Third Generation iPhone Discovered In Firmware
Overclockers Club news Feed —
... While poking around inside the iPhone 2.x firmware, MacRumors discovered and entry for "iPhone2,1" which could represent a 3rd generation iPhone. The original iPhone or iPhone Edge was listed as "iPhone1,1" while the 2nd generation iPhone or iPhone 3G is listed as "iPhone1,2". These numbers are not changed for storage increases, which would indicate that the next iPhone may have some major hardware upgrades. ...
iPhone2,1 Find points to major iPhone Upgrade
I4U News —
... News iPhone2,1 Find points to major iPhone Upgrade MacRumors put their nose into Apple's iPhone 2.x Firmware and found a new evidence of a next generation iPhone with model number iPhone2,1. The current iPhone 3G is labeled internally as iPhone1,2, while the original iPhone started with iPhone1,1. The change in the first digit would lead to the assumption that the new iPhone would have different hardware features. The rumors can run again freely on what the next iPhone will be offering to yet again put the pain on BlackBerry, WinMo, Android and the upcoming Palm ...
Firmware Strings Hint at New iPhone
Tech-Ex —
... According to Macrumors, the string "iPhone 2,1" can be found in the firmware. Apple uses these models numbers to distinguish between different hardware models, and ...
Rumored iPhone "2,1" hardware in the wild
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... The first hints came in October of last year, according to Pinch Media -- devices reporting themselves as "iPhone 2,1" began showing up in the company's logs, as they ran applications which include the free ...
iPhone 2.1 shows up in latest firmware
TweakTown's News RSS Feed —
... it is certainly fun to speculate. Read more here Meanwhile, at least one developer has noticed actual "iPhone2,1" models in use based on PinchMedia ad serving reports. Rumors of the next generation iPhone point to the support of Multi-Core CPUs and possibly Multi-Core GPUs from Imagination Technologies. Apple has been building a team of chip engineers over the past year to participate in their own ARM processor designs that will presumably be used in future iPhones. Schiller previously outlined Apple's natural product timelines and acknowledged that June is the usual ...
