There has been a report from Macerkopf.de that according to an Apple software engineer Apple currently has fourteen different GPU drivers under testing. The GPU drivers are probably for the new iPhone hardware which supposedly will be the iPhone 5. Several of these drivers are capable of running display of higher resolution that is 1280 x 720 and even 1440 x 800. The iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S (latest hardware by Apple) currently support a 960 x 640 resolution. So I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the iPhone that should be released next year will come with a larger screen size.
The report further goes on to say that Apple has two sets of seven drivers that target either dual-core or the quad-chips. iPhone 4s uses a dual-core chip. To be even more specific, amongst each set four drivers target the 960 x 640 display while two target the 1280 x 720 display and one is targeting 1440 x 800 display.
The report further goes on to mention that these drivers are only under test and so far there is no news on whether these drivers will become a part of the actual production. Another thing is that the increased resolutions are not just the multiples of the current resolution. This means that the developers are going to have to develop their applications again in order to fit the standards of the new resolution. When Apple shifted to the retina displays they doubled the vertical and the horizontal resolutions meaning that any low-resolution applications could easily be scaled up by using simple pixel doubling techniques. But such will not be the case this time.
Mackerkopf is not a very frequent source of rumors. One of his rumors was that iOS 5.0.2 was to be released in November and we all know that didn’t work out all that well. Another thing he said was that the update to the iOS 5 will bring considerable changes to the Siri Voice Recognition, but that too hasn’t been noticed so far with the update rolled out.
For this reason we can’t put our foot down on this one either but that doesn’t matter. Rumors are rumors and I’m sure that Apple fans are familiar with those.
