Atom-based iPhone confirmed
May 15th 2008
Quoting Intel Germany's managing director, Hannes Schwaderer, ZDNet Germany (Google Translation) has confirmed that a future version of the iPhone will be based on Intel's Atom processor.
It's said this bigger and badder iPhone will sport a 720 x 480 pixel display, and will be announced during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.
Further, ZDNet Germany states that this new device, call it the iPhone Bold, will be announced alongside the long-anticipated 3G iPhone.
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Source: ZDNet
The device shown above was shown at the Intel Developer Forum 2007 and is an example of the company's Mobile Internet Device platform (ie it's just a guess at what an Atom-based iPhone with a 720 x 480 display might look like).
Oh, to be one of the lucky few (all 5,000 of them) that have reservations for this year's sold out WWDC. And, there will be fewer still that get to see Steve say, "And, there's one more thing..."
