Is this the iPhone 3G chip?

S-GOLD3H, also known as "PMB8878," supports 7.2Mbps HSDPA and has built-in acceleration and media playback features (which, incidentally, the iPhone already has and does well). This chip also includes a higher resolution camera, 5 mega-pixels instead of a 2. Engadget notes that the processor speed stays the same.
[via Engadget]


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Jesus Franco said 7:24AM on 4-09-2008
I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say, I hope it actually utilizes the 5MP cap.
That would be nice.
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DJCarbon43 said 3:25PM on 4-09-2008
I disagree. 5mb from a camera phone lense is not going to be very good, and will gobble up precious memory very quickly.
beercake said 7:26AM on 4-09-2008
Is there any information available, what the differences in power-consumption between SGOLD2 and SGOLD3 are? Would be interesting to know!
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Jesus Franco said 7:31AM on 4-09-2008
With some digging around the web, I located the actual manufacture page for the board.
It seems that it's not just a chip, but an entire 3G Cell Board. Very interesting.
http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/channel.html?channel=db3a304312c463390112d73da3460010
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Damien Guard said 7:38AM on 4-09-2008
The datasheet states "3 MPixel camera interface" not 5.
[)amien
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beercake said 7:44AM on 4-09-2008
The fact-sheet of the 8878 is actually:
http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/findProductTypeByName.html?query=8878
After thinking of it - it's propably not enough to find the power-consumption of the chip alone. I guess there is additional power-consumption by the antenna-amplifiers as well....
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dagamer34 said 7:49AM on 4-09-2008
By the way, a question I have to ask is that are there any chipsets that support T-Mobile's upcoming flavor of 3G using the 1700Mhz frequency? If not, then I'm probably going to have to jump ship to AT&T, even though TMo is WAY cheaper for what I need.
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Syd said 8:30AM on 4-09-2008
Looking at the manufactureres website, the SGOLD3 is only EDGE, where as the SGOLD3H is 3G. And it clearly states in ZiPhone's discovery that it is the SGOLD3 and not SGOLD3H
Failed discovery.
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FrankTheCrank said 10:04AM on 4-09-2008
Would you guys shut up about a 3G iPhone!!
I'm trying to dump my old iPhone on eBay...lol.
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iPhoneinator said 5:44PM on 4-09-2008
so what would the difference be between this one and the other one everybody thought they were using... broadcam is it?
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iPhoneinator said 7:27PM on 4-10-2008
i wonder if the 3g iphone will be a new look to. i mean surely they wouldnt just send out a new version of the fone without changing the look. i wonder if itll be that dual sided trackpad thing that apple got a patened (spelled rite?) for? hmmm..
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shmaff said 4:13AM on 4-12-2008
I am desperately hoping that this is all a hoax.
A 4G processor is on the way!!....... imagine that!
I suppose hot spots will do the trick, instead...
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D said 12:50AM on 4-15-2008
"This chip also includes a higher resolution camera, 5 mega-pixels instead of a 2"
Knee-jerk comment: um, you must mean "camera processor"
Refined edit: How much of the "camera" isn't on this chip...just lens+CMOS sensor?
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