iPhone 3GS Hardware Specs Leaking Out

[Poseidon79]

LOL... thanks? The one thing I always hated about my 3G was the lack of RAM. OH!! And now all the video themes... animated widgets... changing backgrounds... all of them will work as they SHOULD on the 3GS

[cpjr]

Cant wait to wipe the new phone

[lilskaterpunk]

Specs look okay. The reason why I am interested in the new iPhone is the 32GB, I always wanted bigger! The extra ram and proc are nice too, now its a decision to sell my iPhone 3G and purchase the iPhone 3GS or just stay with iPhone 3G. Hmmmmmmm.....

[equlizer]

Im still getting one even if its $600 Im sure i can sell my 3g 8gig for $300

[Happy Noodle Boy]

Still an awful, awful ripoff...

That's a whole lot of Kyon in that picture.

[12jmartinez]

kind of off subject but will the 3.0 update for my 3g have video recording cuz ive been lookin everywhere and i cant find it =[

[CZroe]

if you were smart you'd know its not a fail because 50% means half...so saying the iphone 3gs is 50% faster than the 3g means its actually slower

WOW!!!!! I don't think your good at maths at all.

Indeed, he sucks, but I don't think you're good at English.

50% faster means its 50% faster

50% slower(which you are thinking of) means its 50% slower

lol

Actually, he's ignoring the "faster" part entirely and assuming "of" there instead. It just so happens that 50% "of" something's speed is the same as 50% slower, but 75% "of" something would not be 75% slower (it would be 25% slower). Sorry, I've gotta use this to segue into a PSA...

This is the reason why idiots who insist that their regional way of telling time makes sense in English are retards... "5 of 10" does not mean "5 untill/before 10" in the English language except in very specific regions which use it to refer to "minutes til the hour" and NOWHERE ELSE. Even within the same country, the vast majority of the USA has never heard it and would not know what is meant by it. As seen above, they could only assume the opposite (minutes past the hour).

On the other hand, "10 o'clock" makes PERFECT sense because ten "of" the hours "of" the clock have PASSED. If the rest of the country and the English-speaking world requires a dictionary's special-case definition to know what you are talking about, be a professional and DON'T USE IT. There's a reason you have never seen it in books, movies, songs, and other media. Excusing it with the dictionary is circular reasoning (it's only in there because it's been used by pockets of idiots for a very long time).

He means that the current 3G screen protectors will fit the 3GS fine, but you will not get the benefits of the new 3GS oleographic screens. Basically the oil-proof properties of the new screen won't be there as the screen protector that you're putting on will still attract oil as it is not oleographic itself.

Thank you for re-phrasing it in proper english for me

There's a button for that. It's right underneath his post.

[Amadomon]

uhm wouldnt 50% faster mean half its speed?

Um, no. That would be "50% as fast."

[TheOrioles33]

Im still getting one even if its $600 Im sure i can sell my 3g 8gig for $300

Me too!! You will easily get $300 for yours.

[Happy Noodle Boy]

kind of off subject but will the 3.0 update for my 3g have video recording cuz ive been lookin everywhere and i cant find it =[

No, the camera on the 3G sucks for video.

[dale1v]

Indeed, he sucks, but I don't think you're good at English.

lol.

[jaipee]

hey would any one be able to tell me if the 3gs will be able to be jailbroken?.. im pretty sure know one knows yet, but u guys in the u.s and europe get it on the 19th.. im from australia and we get it on the 26th (fuken stupid}.. so if some one gets it let us all know if u can, msg me

coz if you cant i aint gettin it lol

[Poseidon79]

You are asking about jailbreaking a device that's not even on the market yet. As you said... no one knows yet.

[robbyrob]

It's a two part statement. It's
1- 50% (400x0.5 = 200)
2- faster (value is ADDED to current specs)

Are you people really this dumb?

I'm going to have to say yes!!! People it's a new phone how can it be slower??

[confucious]

ARM7 isn't possible, it has to be ARM11 or ARM Cortex A8. ARM7 is a microcontroller-type CPU.

The ARM CortexTM-A8 processor is the first applications processor based on the ARMv7

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

if you were smart you'd know its not a fail because 50% means half...so saying the iphone 3gs is 50% faster than the 3g means its actually slower

Wow - you shouldn't even be allowed to own an iPhone.

[confucious]

50% - that's nearly a third!

[macr88]

Is the 256mb part of the 16 or 32gb?
If it is will the 3G also get that upgrade when we update to 3.0? I'm probably hoping for the impossible.


EDIT
The answer is no.
It's seperate from storage memory.

[andy33711]

I thought the 3G processor was 620MHz? Or was it that speed and simply underclocked to 400MHz?

AnandTech: The iPhone 3GS Hardware Exposed & Analyzed

"The CPU is based on the ARM11 core, in specific it is the ARM1176JZF-S. The CPU runs at 412MHz to save power, although the core is capable of running at 667MHz."



I wonder if GEOHOT can come up with a hardware hack to free its speed...( or a software hack) Hmmmmmm