Orange Wireless started selling iPhone 3G S in France just after midnight (local time). That's how the Rapid Repair managed to be one of the first sites to publish a photo gallery and carry out an extensive analysis of the disassembly of the device. The identification of all components and their manufacturers, as well as the cost of manufacture, will still take some time, but they have already managed to gather several pieces of information that will make iPhone owners both happy and upset.
The most important novelty discovered so far is the Samsung chipset used by Apple in the manufacture of its smartphone, model SoC S5PC100. According to specifications (PDF, 9MB) found on the company's website, the processor is an ARM Cortex A8 operating at 600MHz (which, in theory, can operate at up to 833MHz). This processor still allows the iPhone 3G S to capture high definition (HD) video with 720p for some reason, Ma limited it to only one VGA quality (640 × 480 pixels).
With a multi format codec, the smartphone will be able to encode and display videos at 30fps, in addition to supporting three types of connection with TV sets, NTSC, PAL and HDMI. Technically, this chipset is also capable of making video calls in real time.
The iPhone 3G S still has a PowerVR SGX graphics chip with 256MB of RAM, Toshiba NAND flash memory, baseband from Infineon and a 1.219mAh battery. See a comparison between the three iPhone models and the Palm Pre:
In addition to Rapid Repair, the guys from iFixit they also already put their hands on one of the iPhones 3G S. In addition to the several photos showing all the stages of the "dismantling", they also published some videos on YouTube. Check out one of them below:
(youtube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azJ4-oz2rsA (/ youtube)
