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T Mobile shares iPhone processor, RAM specs

by Dave Caolo Jun 10th 2009 at 12:15PM

As Jason Snell points out at Macworld, Apple doesn't want people thinking of the iPhone as a computer. At least, not the way geeks like you and I do. As iPhone product marketing manager Bob Borchers told Jason, "...it's just faster, better, quicker, snappier, and a great experience."

Apple doesn't want us worrying about the "how," but many of us do, which is why we're interested in a blurb at T Mobile's Netherlands site which lists the iPhone 3G S as having 256MB RAM and a 600 MHz processor. Of course, we can't verify these specs yet but some have suspected, including myself, that the new model would hold 256MB RAM.

I understand the logic behind Apple's move. John Q. Customer is uninterested in the iPhone's innards and cares only that it works. For many, terms like processor, RAM and MHz only make the thing sound complicated and foreign.

Geeks like us, however, can't resist.

[Via MacDailyNews]

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Mike Teevan

They should be focusing hugely on the specs.
They have given the iPhone a tweak, in the same way that the Mac range is tweaked constantly, and whenever a Mac is tweaked the specs are shouted from the high heavens. Note the MacBook Air with it's SATA hard drive. Oooooh, doesn't my 2 1/2 year old MacBook not have a SATA hard drive too?

Apple are selling the iPhone like a phone but upgrading like a computer.
They need to settle on what they think it is and if they think it's a phone then it should have had a re-design this time around

June 10 2009 at 5:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
The Palm Pre

Uh-Oh. Well, I was unique for, what, 3 days?

June 10 2009 at 4:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jim

Did anyone read the attached T-Mobile iPhone (abonnement) Plans?

Odd little thing halfway down - Videotelephone

T-Mobile Videotelefonie.

Videotelefonie Je betaalt
Je betaalt binnen Nederland per minuut € 0,50
(Call within the Netherlands, per minute)

Je betaalt naar servicenummers per minuut Tarief servicenummer + € 0,50
(Service numbers, 900, etc, per minute)

Voor bellen met Videotelefonie betaal je per seconde plus een starttarief van €0,06 per gesprek.
(For Videotelephony calls you pay per-second with a starting cost of € .06 per call)

Videotelefonie is geen standaard iPhone functionaliteit.
(videotelephony is not standard iPhone functionality)

But I'd say someone has a plan...

June 10 2009 at 4:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MacDragon

Of note, the new CPU is speculated to not just be a 600mhz version of the same cpu in older iphone, but a newer more efficient architecture version of ARM ( cortex a8 ), that should give 1.5-2x the performance for same clock speed, add those two things together, and you've got your 2x speed, this would tie in with the better GPU also

June 10 2009 at 3:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dan rather

Read all about the new specs here: http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3579

June 10 2009 at 1:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Yuusharo

The double in system RAM is going to be a HUGE difference. Applications live so tight in the existing 128 MB handsets that it literally runs out of ram when trying to load the iPod, Safari, and one other application.


Having the huge increase in RAM is going to mean one big difference -- stability. Crashes from a lack or RAM are going to finally go away, which I would bet accounts for a majority of them on the phone. (Although bugs may still crash an app, at least it won't be due to a lack of resources)

June 10 2009 at 1:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Nathan Sweeney

This. Most of my crashes are in Safari and I'm fairly sure it's due to the RAM constraints.

Hopefully the extra RAM will also allow me to switch between tabs in mobile Safari without having to reload the previous tab each time I switch back. EG when I tap an article in google reader it opens in a new tab. When I close that tab and switch back to the tab with google reader, it has to reload the page each time.

June 10 2009 at 2:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Yuusharo

Apple could have fixed that simply by sending those tabs to virtual memory, like what Windows does when it runs low on system RAM. That way, you could store the other tabs on the flash memory, and when you went back to it the cache would load as opposed to reloading the whole page. Perhaps 3.0 fixed this.

Of course, the iPhone acting like Windows may leave a bad taste in Steve Job's mouth xD

June 10 2009 at 3:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
WhAt Up CuZ

im new to this whole iphone thing and this question might be obvious or easy to some but if i were to buy the $99 iphone, will i be able to get the 3.0 or is that on the new models only?

June 10 2009 at 1:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Yuusharo

Yes, iPhone 3.0 is available to ALL the iPhones, including the $99 one. However, I would recommend getting at least the $199 version. The cheaper one still doesn't have video nor the faster specs (its last year's model repackaged), and you won't get the voice control or compass.

June 10 2009 at 2:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
YoJIMbo

Yes, even the original iPhone can use 3.0.

June 10 2009 at 2:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shunnabunich

I think it's a little surreal that in just a few years we'll be chortling at the "olden days" when telephones had processor speeds under 1 GHz. TELEPHONES.

June 10 2009 at 1:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ross

What I have been hoping to find out was if the 3GS still only supports 802.11g WiFi or if that has been upgraded to 802.11n.

June 10 2009 at 1:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Adam

For comparison:

iPhone/iPhone 3G/iPod Touch 1st Gen: 400 mHz, 128 MB RAM
iPod Touch 2nd Gen: 533 mHz, 128 MB RAM

June 10 2009 at 1:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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