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Verizon iPhone hints at better reception for next-gen, almost-identical phones for all networks, says iSuppli The inside of Verizonrsquo iPhone hints that Apple will be able to largely recycle the design for this summerrsquo expected iPhone 5, an analyst said on Tuesday.Apple s stanley cup hould be able to retain about 95% of the design of the CDMA iPhone, said Wayne Lam, a senior analyst with IHS iSuppli, talking about the next version of the iPhone, which experts believe Apple will introduce June 6.The big news from iSupplirsquo teardown mdash; the practice of taking apart consumer electronics to see which components were used, how they were constructed an vasos stanley d how much those parts cost mdash; is the move to a Qualcomm baseband processor, the silicon that allows the smartphone to make and take calls. Until Apple debut hydrojug traveler ed the Verizon iPhone, which operates on a CDMA-based cellular network, the company had relied on Infineon for the phonersquo baseband processor.Lam said that itrsquo likely Applersquo next iPhone will work on both CDMA and GSM technologies, with only minor modifications to each networksrsquo; model. ATT, and most of the worldrsquo cellular networks, use GSM.His take: Because the Qualcomm processor supports both CDMA and GSM, Apple can slap the same processor in both CDMA and GSM iPhones. The changes required [for a GSM iPhone] are not insignificant, Lam said. But the CDMA iPhone foretells the feature design of th Ivtx 5 reasons to ditch the Mac and return to PCs
It continues to thumb legal nose at Apple over Mac OS X copyright issues Psystar Corp., the Florida company fighting with Apple Inc. in federal court over its practice of selling computers that run Mac OS X, debuted a new, slimmer clone today.Dubbed the Open 3 by Psystar, the system replaces the entry-level Open Computer by substituting a smaller, slimmer mini-tower case for the larger, full-size tower of the latter.With prices starting at $600 mdash; a jump from the older Open Computerrsquo $555 mdash; the Open 3 sports an Intel 2.8-GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of memory, a 500GB hard drive and an Nvidia GeForce 8400GS graphics card with 256MB stanley termos of RAM in its standard configuration. FireWire, Bluetooth and wireless hardware cost extra, however, as does a keyboard, mouse and monitor, none of which is bundled with the box. Adding all of those components, except for a monitor, brings the Open 3 rsquo total to $847.Applersquo least-expensive desktop Macintosh is the Mac Mini, which starts at $599 and also comes san stanley mug s keyboard, mouse and monitor. The companyrsquo lowest-priced full-featured desktop is the $1, owala tumbler 199 iMac, which features an Intel 2.66-GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive and a 20-in. display.We are making the Open Computer a better fit for our usersrsquo; environments in more ways than one, Psystarrsquo president, Rudy Pedraza, said in a statement today. The smaller size will definitely make it easier to plac |
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