New chip aims HD video at iPhone

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Anonymous Coward

One for the netbooks or ... #

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 01:20 GMT

maybe even an Apple Mac netbook (McNetbook?)

HD means what? #

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 01:20 GMT

Doesn't HD mean 1080p or 720p? If so what good is HD on an iPhone with it's less than 720 pixel vertical resolution?

Rik Myslewski

@E #

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 02:20 GMT

HD means what?

How 'bout an external? And, while we're dreaming, how about a roll-up, flexible OLED?

vincent himpe

not unless #

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 06:07 GMT

the iphone gets a 1920x1080 pixel 32 bit color display and a whopping magnifying glass....

John

A Mac Tablet using the iPhone OS maybe #

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 09:47 GMT

Personally I would love one of these as I use my iPhone for casual web surfing and email but things like books and reading documents is a bit fiddly.

With a larger screen (screens that could be driven by this) it would really be a sweet little device. Maybe nothing more than a niche but very cool.

That said I suspect this will be mostly for games on the "next" iPhone.

btw - check out the Palm Pre, finally it looks like the iPhone has competition.

jubtastic1

Re: not unless #

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 09:56 GMT

Or a new Dock with a Display port and magsafe power port so you can hook it up to one of those new 24" Cinema Displays, enable a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and you have a Desktop computer for home / office tasks that's a phone when you're out and about.

Don't think this will happen until the competition catches up though.

Farai

Well... #

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 11:19 GMT

they'll probably do that iPhone-into-the-side-of-a-cinema_display trick and you'll carry your iPhone around as your low-powered mobile compute device...

The OpenCL would ensure that it responds pretty well and handle most low-power tasks thrown at it. Combine that with MobileMe and iWork.com, and you're fully connected and mobile.

deadbeef