what planet are you on? For a phone 600 MHz is really fast. The HTCs are still only around 500 Mhz. I'm no Apple fan but this looks like extremely good specs to me.
HTC kinda dropped the ball, too. Dell came out with an Axim X50 back in 2004, which had 624MHz and some video acceleration back in 2004. HTC dropped "standard" back to 512Mhz. Newest PDAs are coming out with 1Ghz. iPhone CPU is only as fast as what was available 5 years ago, and will be "slow" in a few month...
Using that logic, a new Core i7 is exactly the same speed as a Pentium 4. For years, a lot of people have realized that, especially in mobile devices, where battery life is the real key, extra speed isn't necessarily a good thing. Doing more with the clocks you have is. So yes, the new iPhone probably runs at a frequency the original iPhone could -- but does so sucking less juice than the original iPhone would at 600MHz, and probably gets much better clock-for-clock performance.
Keep in mind that with the iPhone (and all portable electronics) the power load/heat/battery life issues are of utmost importance. And, all truly compact devices rely on tiny fans or passive cooling, and must do without most desktop PC cooling techniques like huge, noisy fans, massive heat sinks, lots of heat-diffusing open space above microchips, etc. If you build a laptop PC with nothing but the latest hot-rod, mega-clocked components, you will end up with a hot-to-the-touch monster with about 40 minutes of battery life on a good day. Why do you think so many laptops come with 4200 rpm hard drives? Most manufacturers of higher-end laptops would love to move up to 5400, 7200, 10,000 rpm disk drives, but they tend to guzzle battery juice like there's no tomorrow.
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Only 600Mhz??? WTH Apple? Yay for using circa 2004 Dell PDA processors :(
what planet are you on? For a phone 600 MHz is really fast. The HTCs are still only around 500 Mhz. I'm no Apple fan but this looks like extremely good specs to me.
HTC kinda dropped the ball, too. Dell came out with an Axim X50 back in 2004, which had 624MHz and some video acceleration back in 2004. HTC dropped "standard" back to 512Mhz. Newest PDAs are coming out with 1Ghz. iPhone CPU is only as fast as what was available 5 years ago, and will be "slow" in a few month...
Using that logic, a new Core i7 is exactly the same speed as a Pentium 4. For years, a lot of people have realized that, especially in mobile devices, where battery life is the real key, extra speed isn't necessarily a good thing. Doing more with the clocks you have is. So yes, the new iPhone probably runs at a frequency the original iPhone could -- but does so sucking less juice than the original iPhone would at 600MHz, and probably gets much better clock-for-clock performance.
Keep in mind that with the iPhone (and all portable electronics) the power load/heat/battery life issues are of utmost importance. And, all truly compact devices rely on tiny fans or passive cooling, and must do without most desktop PC cooling techniques like huge, noisy fans, massive heat sinks, lots of heat-diffusing open space above microchips, etc. If you build a laptop PC with nothing but the latest hot-rod, mega-clocked components, you will end up with a hot-to-the-touch monster with about 40 minutes of battery life on a good day.
Why do you think so many laptops come with 4200 rpm hard drives? Most manufacturers of higher-end laptops would love to move up to 5400, 7200, 10,000 rpm disk drives, but they tend to guzzle battery juice like there's no tomorrow.