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| Posted: 09 Jun 2011 11:18 PM PDT
Taiwan’s OmniVision and Avago Technologies have landed contracts with Apple to supply CMOS image sensors and power amplifiers respectively for the iPhone 5, according to a report by the Taiwanese IT industry watcher journal Digitimes. Reportedly, OmniVision will receive about 90% of total CMOS image sensor orders for the fifth-generation iPhone’s 8-megapixel camera, market sources have claimed, with the remainder going to Sony. Avago was a supplier of power amplifiers for the CDMA version of older-generation iPhones, but Digitimes’s Ingrid Lee and Jessie Shen say the Avago will manufacture three of the five PAs used in iPhone 5. This is more indication that an iPhone 5 production ramp-up has commenced, but as for when we might see the product, speculation continues. BeatWeek has helpfully posted and outline of five different release timetable scenarios for the next-generation phone, noting that the question they get asked most often is: "When is the iPhone 5 release date?". The answer: they don't know, and neither does anyone else outside the Steve Jobs inner circle, if indeed a precise date has been set at all. Beatweek’s five speculative scenarios are “Very Soon,” “August,” “September,” “Just Before The Holidays,” and “Doomsday 2012,” and their handicapping analysis leans toward September as being the most likely of the five, with which I concur deductively, but I’m definitely not digging my heels in on that point. However, I do also agree with BeatWeek’s conclusion that “Very Soon,” and “Doomsday 2012″ are the least likely of the five, calling the former “not bloody likely,” and the latter nonsensical, and an epic fail if it happened. Revisiting the topic of iOS 5 compatibility with the iPhone 3GS, ReadWriteWeb’s |
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