3rd Generation iPhone – Low Power Wireless 802.11n?

We recently reported about the new iPhone 3.0 software that Apple are planning to launch later in the year for existing iPhone/iPod Touch owners and also for a rumoured new 3rd generation iPhone, which from looking into the development specification of the iPhone 3.0 beta software, people are perhaps getting a sneak peek at what can be expected from the next iPhone product.

Wireless radio component specifications contained with the iPhone 3.0 beta software would indicate support for a new Wireless/Bluetooth chip model – the newer and faster Broadcom BCM4329 chip instead of the older BCM4325 found in the iPhone 3G. This would add support for the 802.11n standard and would mean there’d be several benefits to the 3rd generation iPhone.

The current iPhone 3G is only fast enough to be capable of using the 2.4GHz 802.11b/g networks which means that they operate on a frequency which a lot of other devices use, so the chances of interference and therefore even slower speeds are greater.

By operating on the 802.11n network, a 3rd generation iPhone would benefit from less interference on the 5GHz network frequency (which in itself would help data transfer speeds), but it would perhaps more importantly make for:

• Increased network speed
• Increased reception range
• Increased power efficiency

Should these reserved resource files in the iPhone 3.0 beta software end up being used in the final product for this new chip model, then this would be another area in which Apple are improving the technical and functional specifications of the 3rd generation iPhone, it should be interesting to see what if anything comes out of this speculation.

Via – iPhoneBuzz & AppleInsider

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