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Is this the iPhone 3G chip?


Engadget posted about some information they received from the ZiPhone folks. According to ZiPhone, they have spotted some code in the new iPhone 2.0 beta software that suggests Apple will use the Infineon 3G chipset. The code mentions "SGOLD3," which is a series of chips that Infineon produces. iPhone currently uses the S-GOLD2 EDGE chipset.

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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Engadget posted about some information they received from the ZiPhone folks. According to ZiPhone, they have spotted some code in the new...
 

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"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?

April 15 2008 at 12:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shmaff

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...

April 12 2008 at 4:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iPhoneinator

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..

April 10 2008 at 7:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iPhoneinator

so what would the difference be between this one and the other one everybody thought they were using... broadcam is it?

April 09 2008 at 5:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
FrankTheCrank

Would you guys shut up about a 3G iPhone!!

I'm trying to dump my old iPhone on eBay...lol.

April 09 2008 at 10:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Syd

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.

April 09 2008 at 8:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dagamer34

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.

April 09 2008 at 7:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
beercake

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....


April 09 2008 at 7:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Damien Guard

The datasheet states "3 MPixel camera interface" not 5.

[)amien

April 09 2008 at 7:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jesus Franco

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

April 09 2008 at 7:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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