What we expect to see inside the iPhone 5

What we expect to see inside the iPhone 5

We are only a handful of months since the launch of Apple's usual summer for the current iPhone hardware. With Apple busy keeping up with demand for both GSM and CDMA versions of the recently released iPhone 4, we think it might be worth considering what we might see within the next generation iPhone at WWDC presented this summer.

As for the form factor is concerned, do not expect to see radical (if any) changes to the exterior of a fifth-generation iPhone. Apple just changed the design of the original iPhone to 3G, and not all the 3G. IPhone 4 despite complaints with the design of the antenna and the front and back covers of glass has been generally quite sturdy and well received. And the company is now getting around to find how reliable than a white.

In addition, the iPhone 4 Display 3.5 "Retina is still one of the sharpest screen resolutions and the highest available on any mobile phone and the iPhone 4 5MP camera rear-lighting system is the best on any smart phone we have evaluated . We expect these to remain unchanged.

Instead, we believe Apple will focus on internal improvements for the iPhone 5, as it did with 3G. Three major improvements have been suggested in the last couple of months include a next-generation mobile processor, a move to dual-mode GSM / CDMA base band processors from Qualcomm, and the addition of near field communication hardware.
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The updated processor, now known as A5, which will probably feature two ARM Cortex A9 cores running at 1 GHz or higher. The chip is also expected to have a more recent kernel iteration Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX graphics, which has a base line performance improvement by 40 percent in the Power VR SGX higher processor used in Apple's A4. Depending on power requirements and size of the process, Apple may even include two graphics cores to an even greater boost in graphics power. Both processor cores and graphics OpenCL compatible, allowing developers to more easily tap different cores to improve performance.

Apple is also likely to include dual-mode chips Qualcomm baseband, as MDM6600 used in current CDMA iPhone supports 4 on Verizon. This replaced the former Infineon chip GSM only, allowing Apple to take advantage of higher volumes on all iPhones.

We hope that Apple uses the dual-mode chip to create a single model of iPhone that is compatible with both types of networks. Doing so is likely to require some further adjustment of the antenna and the addition of a SIM card slot for the basic design of Apple iPhone uses CDMA 4. Apple also could move to an integrated, programmable SIM module inside the phone, eliminating the need for a SIM card slot accessible from the outside, though the companies have not been very receptive to the idea.

However, iSuppli analyst Wayne Lam suggested that instead of Apple could use the same Qualcomm chip with slightly different board designs logic and continue to sell different models for GSM and CDMA as it does now. This option gives you the freedom to adjust the antennas Apple separately for the different networks, as needed, instead of trying to design to work across both network types.

Apple is also rumored that even the near-field communications (NFC) radio hardware through its mobile product line. NFC enable a next-generation iPhone to act as a credit card or pass the transit system, and be able to extract data from RFID tag posters and advertisements. It could also facilitate communication enable peer-to-peer between iDevices and other smart phones equipped with NFC, or would it be easier to connect an iPhone to "smart" NFC accessories.

Other components that could see improvements are the vibrator module and battery. The new iPhone CDMA 4 contains a "soft" vibrating motor and a battery a little lighter, which will probably be used in the update scheduled for this summer.

Some technology circles have questioned why consumers pounce on a Verizon iPhone 4 (or even a white iPhone 4) When an updated model is probably only months away, but we do not buy the 4s in the next iPhone weeks will feel like you should have waited. It is likely that some time before the expected internal updates are used by developers so that the iPhone 4 is seen as a spectacle to the detriment, perhaps in time for a more radical "iPhone 6" review in 2012.