According to Engadget, they’ve got reliable sources telling that the next generation iPhone and iPad, which are the iPhone 5 and iPad 2 respectively, will use Qualcoom chipsets instead of the Infineon chipsets used in the GSM version of iPhone 4.
The recently announced Verizon iPhone 4 (CDMA) also uses the Qualcomm chipset. The move to using Qualcomm chipsets allows the iPhone 5 and iPad 2 to be able to ride on both CDMA and GSM networks, which means they’ll be carried by both Verizon and AT&T.
iPad 2 – The currently known information about the iPad 2 is it’ll be a thinner and sleeker tablet which will come equipped with the iPhone 4′s Retina Display with super high resolution (currently unknown) and the screen size will remain as 10 inches. The iPad 2 will also come equipped with an SD card slot that’s missing and been complained a lot in the first-gen of iPad. Unfortunately, there will still be no USB slot for the iPad 2. And the iPad 2 will adopt the dual CDMA/GSM Qualcomm chipset which will probably let AT&T and Verizon offer the iPad 2 at the same time. The iPad 2 is said to likely be out sometime in April 2011, which matches the 12-month product cycle of Apple.
iPhone 5 – The iPhone 5 will be a completely redesigned handset which currently has very little info. It’s said to be a total redesign and running atop the Apple’s new A5 CPU (a Cortex A9-based, multi-core chip). And similar to the iPad 2, it’ll use the Qualcom chipset that offers triple duty as the CDMA / GSM / UMTS baseband processor. At the moment, there is no indication whether it’ll have LTE support. The iPhone 5 is also said to be on track for a summer launch this year.
Other than the new generations of iPhone and iPad, Apple is also said to be working on the next generation of Apple TV, which involves a redesign and the use of the new A5 processor, which is super fast and capable of handling full HD 1080p video.
via engadget
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