iPhone 5 The most awaited device! Ayush Bhuyan (The author is a Final year student of Aeronautical Engineering at IIT, Kanpur)
So, after last year’s disappointing release of the iPhone 4S instead of the iPhone 5, everyone is really pumped up for the ever so awaited fifth instalment in the iPhone series. The new iPhone 5 is expected to be released this September. The two years’ time since the last iPhone release has given the tech-critics and the general public ample time to let their imaginations go wild and come up with several expected iPhone 5 features and specifications. So, let’s go over some of the interesting iPhone 5 concept specifications before the real deal: Bigger Screen: Rumours are the iPhone this time might finally have a 4+ inch display. After the release of the Samsung Galaxies over the last few years Apple may now break the barrier of the 3.5 inch screen display.
Processor : The coming iPhone is expected to sport the latest and the fastest processor chip, the A5. This will enable even faster browsing, smoother multitasking, better gaming performance and rise of some new “memory –intense “apps in the apple app store. IPhone 5 will house the A5 as the main processor, which technically is the same chip that currently powers the iPod 2. The A5 contains a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU with NEON SIMD accelerator and a dual core Power SGX543MP2 GPU, which means that the iPhone5 can do twice the work at once. The processor speed will be somewhere between 1.2 to 1.5 GHz, with probably a 1GB RAM. The A5 chip might effectively increase the power use. It is said that the chip has “a dynamic power management”, which can lower the [speed] depending on the workload, and thus efficiently make use of the power.
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