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According to Gizmodo the phone was lost March 18. On March 29 Gruber publishes a short comment that casually includes some of the specs (A4-family CPU, 960x640

by Hagelin 17y ago

According to Gizmodo the phone was lost March 18. On March 29 Gruber publishes a short comment that casually includes some of the specs (A4-family CPU, 960x640 display, front-facing camera). Kinda makes me wonder if there was an authorized leak of the hardware specs in order to steal some thunder from any upcoming stories. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/29/wsj http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/29/wsj

jrockway 17y ago
Or the specs were just obvious. Apple already released a next-gen device running iPhoneOS with the A4 processor. And their competitors are all hyping massive-res screens and front-facing cameras. Apple would be insane not to do exactly what Gruber predicted.
- necubi 17y ago
  Gruber gave the exact screen resolution, which was far from obvious (as, to my knowledge, no other phone has been released with that resolution).
  - jonknee 17y ago
    He gave the exact rumored screen resolution, Gizmodo was never able to verify it other than it appeared higher res.
  - ajg1977 17y ago
    Given that it was a fairly safe bet the new phone would have a higher-res, 960x640 was a fairly obvious candidate for the resolution. Anything else would have made resulted in a noticeable drop in quality when running existing apps. Because 960x640 is exactly 2x the existing iPhone resolution in each dimension existing apps and their artwork can be doubled. Since the screen is approx the same size (unlike the iPad) this results in an image that's entirely indistinguishable from previous models, and may even be better if things like font and path rendering are "aware" of the higher res. If they had chosen any other resolution then existing apps would need filtering when rendered fullscreen which in many cases would almost certainly resulted in a worse, or at least oddly different, look than the original. I'm sure Apple would have preferred not to go with 960x640 for cost reasons, but they couldn't very well release a phone where 160,000 apps look worse than when running on the previous model.
    - orangecat 17y ago
      960x640 was a fairly obvious candidate for the resolution A candidate perhaps, but not at all obvious. It's a higher pixel density than any device Wikipedia knows about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_density http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_densi.... Other alternatives that would have been at least as plausible would be to keep it the same ("only geeks care about meaningless specs like that") or go to 720x480, where 1.5x scaling wouldn't be that bad.
- Hagelin 17y ago
  I have no doubt the information was leaked to him, he usually marks speculative predictions as such. What I'm wondering is if the leak was sanctioned or not.

by Hagelin 17y ago

jrockway 17y ago

Or the specs were just obvious. Apple already released a next-gen device running iPhoneOS with the A4 processor. And their competitors are all hyping massive-res screens and front-facing cameras. Apple would be insane not to do exactly what Gruber predicted.

necubi 17y ago
Gruber gave the exact screen resolution, which was far from obvious (as, to my knowledge, no other phone has been released with that resolution).
- jonknee 17y ago
  He gave the exact rumored screen resolution, Gizmodo was never able to verify it other than it appeared higher res.
- ajg1977 17y ago
  Given that it was a fairly safe bet the new phone would have a higher-res, 960x640 was a fairly obvious candidate for the resolution. Anything else would have made resulted in a noticeable drop in quality when running existing apps. Because 960x640 is exactly 2x the existing iPhone resolution in each dimension existing apps and their artwork can be doubled. Since the screen is approx the same size (unlike the iPad) this results in an image that's entirely indistinguishable from previous models, and may even be better if things like font and path rendering are "aware" of the higher res. If they had chosen any other resolution then existing apps would need filtering when rendered fullscreen which in many cases would almost certainly resulted in a worse, or at least oddly different, look than the original. I'm sure Apple would have preferred not to go with 960x640 for cost reasons, but they couldn't very well release a phone where 160,000 apps look worse than when running on the previous model.
  - orangecat 17y ago
    960x640 was a fairly obvious candidate for the resolution A candidate perhaps, but not at all obvious. It's a higher pixel density than any device Wikipedia knows about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_density http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_densi.... Other alternatives that would have been at least as plausible would be to keep it the same ("only geeks care about meaningless specs like that") or go to 720x480, where 1.5x scaling wouldn't be that bad.
Hagelin 17y ago
I have no doubt the information was leaked to him, he usually marks speculative predictions as such. What I'm wondering is if the leak was sanctioned or not.