Although the mysterious appearance of Apple's next generation iPhone has been unveiled, the phone's core hardware configuration has been unknown for a long time. However, the recent announcement from 9to5Mac and related resources disclosed the mystery for us. According to the relevant statements, the next generation iPhone will be equipped with 1GB RAM capacity, and low-voltage dual-core processor with 32-nanometer process.
The next-generation iPhone core hardware information is disclosed by 9to5Mac, which is known through the deep study of beta iOS6 code, coupled with reliable sources of internal message. For example: Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: XXX May XX XX:XX:XX PDT 2012; root:xnu-21XX.X.XXX/DEVELOPMENT_ARM_S5L8950X” the information displayed by this code is that the next generation iPhone will run iOS 6 operating system, which will be based on the 13.0.0 version Darwin kernel. At the same time its built-in processor is ARM S5L8950X and OEM by Samsung. iPhone 4S and the new iPad processor models were ARM S5L8940X and the ARM S5L8945X , so it is not difficult to find that the next generation of the iPhone 's processor is more advanced on the leaked model.
However, for the S5L8950X processor’s core, speed, and manufacturing processes, there is no more believable information. According to the 9to5mac’s speculation, the processor is the low-voltage dual-core processor which may be the same as the new batch of iPad 2’s 32-nanometer processor.
As Apple pays particular attention to the GPU performance of previous iPhones, the GPU specifications used by the next generation iPhone naturally seem concerned. From the exposed information, the GPU chip of the next generation iPhone also has some changes, using the model " SGX543RC *" chip, but we are still unable to find any information about the GPU. Apart from this, as rumored in the past, it has been confirmed that the RAM capacity of the next generation iPhone has been upgraded to 1GB, which will no doubt bring better fluency to manipulation experience.
What is worthy of mentioning is that Apple has designated the RF chip supplier of next generation iPhone according to the latest report. Media learned from one of the suppliers selected that the next generation iPhone will use advanced RF filtering techniques, and the advantage is that it has reduced the size of accessories and improved the power, what is the latest concern of phone manufacturers.
Therefore, we can see from summing up many rumors of the next generation iPhone that the phone will use the metal back cover, and due to the use of in - cell touch panel, it will make mobile phones become slimmer. In addition to rise the size of the touch screen to about 4.0 inches, the proportion of the next generation iPhone touch screen will be 16:9, and supports the high resolution of 640 × 1136 pixels. On the core hardware, the RAM capacity of the phone will be upgraded to 1GB, and use low-voltage 32-nanometer dual-core processor, while the use of the new GPU is likely to bring substantial leap in graphics performance.
According to the news from sources , Apple is testing iPhone5 1 and iPhone5 two prototypes, and their internal code are N41AP ( 5,1) and N42AP ( 5,2 ) , while the leaked core hardware information is from N41AP (5,1). So this means the processors and GPU information may not be used on next generation phone. Maybe Apple's more advanced configuration is being used on another testing machine N42AP ( 5,2 ). However, according to Apple’s past efforts to upgrade the phones, it is expected that the quad-core processor should not be included in the next generation iPhone.
