Hasta La Gadget!

As the initial wave of iPhone 5 reviews hit, it looked as if Apple’s dual-core A6 processor was sporting a clock speed of around 1GHz. We saw reports (and confirmed with our own handset) ranging between 1.00 and 1.02GHz, but a new Geekbench build (v2.3.6) has today revealed a horse of a different color. According to Primate Labs’ own John Poole, the latest version of the app — which landed on the App Store today — “features a dramatically improved processor frequency detection algorithm, which consistently reports the A6’s frequency as 1.3GHz.” In speaking with us, he affirmed that “earlier versions of Geekbench had trouble determining the A6’s frequency, which lead to people claiming the A6’s frequency as 1.0GHz as it was the most common value Geekbench reported.”

When we asked if he felt that the A6 was capable of dynamically overclocking itself for more demanding tasks, he added: “I don’t believe the A6 has any form of processor boost. In our testing, we found the 1.3GHz was constant regardless of whether one core or both cores were busy.” Our own in-house iPhone 5 is regularly displaying 1.29GHz, while a tipster’s screenshot (hosted after the break) clearly display 1.30GHz. Oh, and if anyone wants to dip their iPhone 5 in a vat of liquid nitrogen while trying to push things well over the 2GHz level, we certainly wouldn’t try to dissuade your efforts.

[Thanks, Bruno]

Continue reading Apple’s A6 CPU actually clocked at around 1.3GHz, per new Geekbench report

Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile

Apple’s A6 CPU actually clocked at around 1.3GHz, per new Geekbench report originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Primate Labs, Geekbench (App Store)  | Email this | Comments

It appears that Apple has gotten the China Compulsory Certificate for the iPhone 5 in a couple iterations, both of them quite possibly headed for China Telecom. The first of these will likely be the global GSM model – here in the approval found by Sina marked as WCDMA phone model A1429. The second is a CDMA2000 version model number A1442 of the device – this will likely be a brand new model of the iPhone as the current CDMA iPhone 5 (A1429) does not currently have China Telecom in its listing of networks. Of course there’s always the future.

The iPhone 5 will likely be available across much of China by the end of 2012. With China Unicom also already noting that they’ll have the device by the end of the year, we’ll see more than one major carrier working with the device. Apple has not been shy in the past year about making their move into and across China a priority as it is at the moment for them a relatively untapped market. China is already a place where users are able to purchase the iPhone 5 on the “grey market”, so to speak, but they aren’t currently able to purchase a device at retail.

This device is sweeping across the United States and the UK and bits of Europe rather soon, and the whole world will be in the iPhone 5 love bubble sooner than later. We’ve got an iPhone 5 full review for your perusal if you like, and there’s always the iPhone 5 tag portal for your enjoyment as well. This device has already sold more than 5 million units over its opening weekend and is on track to set each other iPhone sales record in the dust.

For those of you interested in picking up an iPhone 5 in the near future and are interested in what you’ll need to know about its operating system, you can check the iOS 6 changelog as well as our iPhone 5 software rundown – which was a pre-event post, but remains true today. The iPhone 5 will be running iOS 6 out of the box, but if you already own an iPhone 4S, iPad 3, or something similar, you can update your system wirelessly today for free – just hit the settings!

[via TNW]

iPhone 5 seeks approval for China is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

If you own a private jet, have a limousine waiting for you outside an airport when you land and often have to spend your time in palaces, you may not want to stick with the regular iPhone 5. It may looks too mundane for the rest of your lifestyle and too common too, given the 5 million sales off the very first weekend.

Rather, you can opt for the gold-plated iPhone 5, thanks to Gold & Co. of London. The sparkling iPhone 5 comes studded with a 24-karat gold and you choose between the regular gold tint or a rose gold shade. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: iPhone 5 prank tells it as it is, DIY nano SIM card for unlocked iPhone 5,

It seems that there is no end in sight to the woes of Apple’s iPhone 5. But then, it may also seem so because Apple is known for shipping out the highest-quality products. We have earlier witnessed the Scuffgate as well as the light leaks in iPhone 5, apart from the reports of intermittent WiFi connectivity on Apple support forums.

And now, yet another issues is being reported by iPhone 5 users. According to the forums at Anandtech, a number of users have reported to have seen purple halo in photos taken with iPhone 5′s camera. The halo is seen when you take photos with the camera directed towards a bright source, such as some direct light source or the Sun. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: iPhone 5 prank tells it as it is, DIY nano SIM card for unlocked iPhone 5,

A bit of investigation done on Apple’s iPhone 5 and the Lightning cord and docking port this week has turned up an oddity: the pins on both sides are not the same as one another. It would appear, according to Double Helix Cables’ own pro Peter that the 8-pin lineup is not in the same order on both sides of the cord’s head. Because of his discovery that one pin does the same as the pin that’s directly behind it, Peter has proven that Apple must be using some sort of process to dynamically identify which pin order the cord is currently using – depending on which side is up and which is down, that is.

The Apple Lighting cord you’ll be getting – or have already gotten – with your future Apple mobile products is indeed reversible. You can plug it in without looking and you’ll always be putting it in the right way up. With the new cord working one way or the other like this, one would expect the order of the pins to be 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 no matter which side is up – but what Peter has discovered is that the same signals are coming from pin 2 on one side and pin 7 on the other. In other words, if you could see straight through from one side to the other, each pin would be the same straight through.

Only that’s not exactly it – it’s not that simple. The pins instead appear to line up 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 to 1 7 6 8 5 3 2 4. His sketches here make it a bit more clear, if you’d like. Also above you’re seeing the chip inside the cord that does the dirty work.

Peter also discovered this Authentication Chip in the Lighting cord – this means that anyone hoping to create 3rd party cords will be having one whole heck of a lot more trouble doing so than they did with past generations. Each cord has a chip, each chip more than likely lets the device it’s plugging into what it’ll be delivering through which pin. The complexity of each element in the Apple mobile universe continues to expand – let us know what you think of it!

[via Apple Insider]

Apple Lighting port not identical on both sides is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.