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Some iPhone Devs get Suped Up Models with A5 Chip

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> If this report is true, it also lends credence to reports that the iPhone 5 won’t be available until the fall. If it were to launch in June as usual, Apple would likely have more complete prototypes available for developers.

I don't see how it means that, surely even if advance prototypes were available then given the debacle last time they'll be kept even more under-wraps this time. Putting the new cpu into an "old" phone seems the perfect compromise for Apple - no matter what stage of dev the iPhone 5 is at.

I wonder how much RAM the iPhone 5 will have.

The weird situation of the iPhone having double the RAM of its iPad counterpart could be repeated.

Not entirely weird considering the next iPhone will be released a few month later than the iPad and it is also more expensive.

Maybe, but how much does 1GB of RAM really cost?

In volumes of tens of millions of units.

For a company that sells as many units as Apple does, this is no argument for keeping 512mb on iPad 2 but increasing memory on iPhone 5. The price increase would be small compared to the cost of the device.

Perhaps there is something they know that makes this differentiation worthwhile. But maybe the specs will be the same after all. Who knows yet?

"souped up"

I am currently in the no mans land where I need to upgrade my 3G but am hanging on till the next iPhone. If Apple don't announce something soon I shall have no choice but to jump ship to Android.

Why would you not buy an iPhone 4 right now? Honest question because besides the usual hardware update I can't seem to think of many other things which would make me wait for a newer version (but I do know that Apple will prove me wrong though).

Now if that's because of iOS then I guess I understand what you are feeling... (but I don't see Apple not letting you update iPhone 4 to iOS 5).

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