Next iPhone's A5 CPU: Enough reason to upgrade?

Hardware may exceed iOS capabilities for the first time, argues expert

Computerworld - Apple's next iPhone will pack the company's newest A5 processor, but the additional horsepower won't be a major upgrade motivator unless Apple pulls some high-powered apps from its own pocket, an iPhone expert said.

  

The new iPhone, which most analysts have said will ship in September, will be powered by the A5, the same processor that runs the iPad 2, said Aaron Vronko, CEO of Rapid Repair, a repair shop and do-it-yourself parts supplier for the iPhone, iPod and iPad.

Vronko based his bet that the A5 will make its way into the next iPhone on Apple's history of keeping its smartphone and tablet lines in sync. Last year, Apple stuck the A4 -- the first of its own designs -- into the original iPad, then several months later dropped it into the iPhone 4.
Apple used the A5 in the iPad 2 that launched last March.

Like the A4, the A5 is based on an ARM Cortex design; the latter, however is a dual-core processor built on the Cortex A9 that runs at 1Ghz, said Vronko.     Read More