New iPhone Model Number spotted in unencrypted iPhone firmware

By Aaron Besson at 29 January, 2009, 12:14 am

It seems that the guys over at MacRumors have found that Apple’s iPhone firmware 2.0+ has evidence of the next generation iPhone which has been designated model “iPhone2,1″. Apple uses these models numbers to distinguish between different hardware models. Is this the rumored Four Core iPhone?

The original iPhone (aluminum 2G) is referred to as “iPhone 1,1″ while the 3G iPhone is referred to as “iPhone 1,2″. The model numbers only change when there is a new model and now for simple things like storage capacity upgrades. The iPod Touch (first gen) is model number “iPod 1,1″ where the new 2G iPod Touch is model number “iPod2,1″. This new iPhone2,1 model number can be found in the USBDeviceConfiguration.plist in an unencrypted firmware.

Accordig to MacRumors:

Rumors of the next generation iPhone point to the support of Multi-Core CPUs and possibly Multi-Core GPUs from Imagination Technologies. Apple has been building a team of chip engineers over the past year to participate in their own ARM processor designs that will presumably be used in future iPhones. Schiller previously outlined Apple’s natural product timelines and acknowledged that June is the usual timeframe for major iPhone revisions, although storage increases could happen at any time.

So looks like we may or may not see a new model iPhone later this year, what so you think/wish for? Me I would really like a higher resolution camera with a flash and video support (editing and chat), haptic feed back and gestures for shortcuts. All of my wishes woudl be possible with the Multi Core CPU’s or GPU’s.

What would you like to see?

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AaronBesson January 29, 2009

Just a little follow up via http://www.pinchmedia.com/iphone-21/“target=”_blank”>http://http://www.pinchmedia.com/iphone-21/

* the first time an application using Pinch Analytics was run by a ‘iPhone 2,1′ device occurred back in early October 2008;
* applications using Pinch Analytics were run by ‘iPhone 2,1′ devices very sporadically until mid-December 2008, when the pace picked up slightly;
* to date, a few dozen distinct ‘iPhone 2,1′ devices have run almost two dozen different applications using Pinch Analytics;
* when ‘iPhone 2,1′ devices run applications using Pinch Analytics’ optional geolocation tracking, they’re almost exclusively located in the south San Francisco Bay Area;
* while most of the sessions have been made from wifi connections, there’s been a few connections over AT&T’s network, so presumably this device handles both;
* the applications that have been run by Pinch Analytics don’t share much in common, except for their size — they’re among the larger applications to use our stuff, with hundreds of thousands to millions of unique users.