Ever since the Apple launched its first iPhone in 2007, the company has been releasing a newer version every year by the month of June, and 2011 is rumored to be no exception. There are rumors round the corners that iPhone 5 is due for production from June and would start shipping from September.
So what makes iPhone 5 so special ? Well here are some features that are rumored to be a part of iPhone5.
Multiple SGX graphics cores
Apple packed its iPad 2 with its A5 processor, which gave its best-selling gaming tablet the power to render alleged 2048-by-1536 resolution Retina Display. Appleinsider.com quotes that Apple will not only be upgrading its video core, but also going to multiple cores. So for its upcoming iPhone which is rumored to be a gaming phone, Apple decided to pack not just one SGX543 core within its A5 design. The company is pursuing a multi-core GPU—specifically, the aforementioned SGX543MP2, which smashes two SGX543 cores together into a single processing unit.
Sony is rumored to be using the same multiple core SGX543 architecture in its forthcoming PlayStation Portable 2.
8-megapixel camera
iPhone 5 is rumored to pack 8.0 megapixel Camera with it.There are also rumors of flash being relocated, but that’s unlikely to happen.
Complete redesign.
The home button area will expand to act as a gesture area to support gesturing features.The display could go up to 3.7 inches. there are also rumors of iPhone to use Qualcomm’s dual GSM/CDMA Gobi chipset.