Infineon 3G Chipset Reference Found In New iPhone SDK Release

April 9th, 2008

Hawk-eyed iPhone developer Zibri (the developer of the unlocking tool ZiPhone), has discovered some refernces inside the newly release SDK Beta 3 software that strongly suggest Apple will use the Infineon 3G Chipset.

The code in question mentions “SGOLD3,” which is a reference to the series of chips that Infineon produces. The iPhone device currently uses the S-GOLD2 EDGE chipset.

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This new chip features a higher resolution camera (5 megapixels instead of 2), along with built-in accelation and media playback and support for 7.2Mbps HSPA.

[via ZiPhone.org]

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