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I think it will be dual A5, like the iPad: they have to keep up with (and actually, they surpass) the competition - HTC and LG have already announced dual core.

by 6ren 16y ago

I think it will be dual A5, like the iPad: they have to keep up with (and actually, they surpass) the competition - HTC and LG have already announced dual core. Perhaps they'll also try to bump up the resolution to 720p, and add HDMI out. A reason not to is so they don't cannibalize iPad sales - but that's short-sighted, and historically not Apple's style. We may also see the rumored cut-down, retail-for-$200 iPhone - my addition is that it will have a similar form-factor as the current nano.

ZeroGravitas 16y ago
I think A5 (and the Cortex-A9 it implements) implies dual core. Saying they'll surpass the competition with the A5 is debatable, I'm assuming based on them having a better GPU (and NEON) than Tegra2 phones, but HTC/Qualcomm are coming even later to the dual-core party with a rumoured 1.2GHz and an Adreno 220 GPU. Also, Apple added HDMI out to the current iPhone 4 via a dongle they announced as part of the iPad 2 launch.