When Apple announced iPhone 3G S at the WWDC 2009 Keynote address, they mentioned that it was the fastest iPhone they had ever created.
But they didn’t provide us any details of the processor speed or increase in RAM I thought we might have to await until June 19 when iPhone 3G S will be officially available.
We might not have to wait that long as T-Mobile.nl has posted some technical specs about iPhone 3G S revealing that the third generation iPhone comes with a faster 600 MHz processor and 256MB of RAM.
We had heard rumors and speculations that Apple’s new iPhone will come with 600 MHz and double the RAM as compared to existing iPhone models.
It looks like they were right based on the specs of iPhone 3G S posted by T-Mobile.nl, the exclusive carrier of iPhone in Netherlands.
At 600 MHz, iPhone 3G S's processor is almost 1.5 times faster than the processor in existing iPhone models, which runs at 412 Mhz. In fact, the 2nd generation iPod Touch was the fastest device until now, runs at 532 MHz.
iPhone 3G S also has double the RAM i.e. 256MB up from 128MB in current iPhone models.
The new iPhone is also believed to also use the new PowerVR SGX graphics processing unit, which provides support for OpenGL ES 2.0 that will again improve performance, especially while playing iPhone games.
So it’s not surprising that iPhone 3G S will be 2.1x faster to launch Messages app, 2.4x to load SimCity, 3.6x faster to load an Excel attachment and 2.9x faster to load a large website.
I think that processor speed and RAM are the most underrated features on a mobile phone. But I believe it’s a big deal as a faster processor and more RAM in iPhone 3G S will help in further improving the user experience on the iPhone, which is already one of the best in the smartphone market.
There were rumors that Apple would name their third generation iPhone as “iPhone video”, but in my opinion iPhone 3G S where ‘S’ for speed though is a little odd, is more apt.
What do you think? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comment section below.
[via T-Mobile.nl]
Thanks iPhoneHacks for the great news. I may upgrade to the new iPhone 3G S after all, even thou I am not happy that I have to pay approximately £385 for cancelling rest of my contract and paying initial price fee to get another two years contract, but now I know with specs like that I will dream to afford buying an unlocked device as it is going to be twice expensive, so I can't complain anymore.
By the way, I guess you should do like most people and other blogs who are naming the new iPhone as 3GS, not 3G S, because if you search on google for iPhone 3G S you will get results related with 3G iPhone only, the space between 3G & S is making the first part of the search words as iPhone 3G while if you join then together as 3GS you will get unique results for the new iPhone.
still doesnt make me want an iPhone 3G S….
On eBay they are calling it iPhone 3G(S). It is going to be also unique as long as there is no space between.
Hey ZedSefi,
Excellent tip, we will evaluate it further.
Thanks, appreciate it.
i wonder how thats gonna effect battery life….
Apple had mentioned during the WWDC Keynote address that new iPhone's
battery life is better than existing iPhone models which would be
considering the faster processor and features like video recording etc.
You can checkout the table which compares battery life of iPhone 3G S with
iPhone 3G:
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2009/06/iphone-3g-s-announced-faster-3mp-camera-video-and-improved-battery.html
i was hopping to have fm radio on the new iphone 3g S
Is the new iPhone actually using a physically new processor? I have heard rumours that it is the same processor as the 3G, its just that the 3G's processor was 'underclocked' and 3GS' one is not underclocked.
Is this true?
i just upgraded the 8gb 3g last week, and when i heard about the price drop and new model i called immediately. apple said i can take the phone back and either get a credit or get the new phone on reserve or something like that. i wonder how long until it is jailbroken.
i want to be able to overclock my iphone 3g, i hear its been downclocked as a factory standard, the ipod touch has the same cpu but standard clocked
That speed improvement should be enough for Macromedia Flash, shouldn't it?
This is nice features and also speed is very best and improve the all features.
Definitely stands for the 3GS(uper)
Or maybe that may be stretching it.
only apple could get away with bringing out a new model with (in my opinion) such insignificant upgrades (besides os3.0) and still sell a bajillion units… =P
Steve Jobs is a god-like genius, unless he creates some sorta jailbreak blocker
apple is the phone who wake up other company to do something now nokia making struggling and other company too where they were before now the introducing 1ghz processor and 600mhz processor phones….