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Comments on: New chip aims HD video at iPhone

One for the netbooks or ... 

Posted Monday 12th January 2009 23:28 GMT

Happy

maybe even an Apple Mac netbook (McNetbook?)

HD means what? 

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 00:17 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?

@E 

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 02:15 GMT

Happy

HD means what?

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

not unless 

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 04:17 GMT

Stop

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

A Mac Tablet using the iPhone OS maybe 

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 09:44 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.

Re: not unless 

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 09:47 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.

Well... 

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 11:07 GMT

Go

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.

Apples answer to Nvidia Tegra chip? 

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 13:03 GMT

I suspect that this is something to compete with Nvidia's Tegra chip with HDMI to a HD display.

http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=1324

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