May 1 holiday, took some time off and gave free rein to their imagination: Jon Ive two one-day published their concept of Liquidmetal iPhone. The first, the iPhone +, was designed by Antonio de Rosa and has an iPhone 4.3 "edge to edge whose body unibody is Liquidmetal, regardless of the impact on the final invoice.
This envelope, surrounded by a chrome rim, would contain a processor quad-core Apple A6, a 10 MP camera, and a pico-projector. The designer has incorporated into his concept of the hottest rumors in recent months, as a capacitive home button and dock connector reviewed and considerably reduced.
The concept of Antoine Brieux is not so different, except that the Liquidmetal is here used to form the internal chassis, and that design is closer to the current model - and particularly classy. Only difference with the previous model: here we find no pico projector, but instead an integrated SIM card.
The designer imagines that Apple can make the same choice as Google and remove the home button in favor of a virtual button displayed on demand: applications would not necessarily need to be rewritten, since part of screen of 4.5 "would be occupied by this button. But video playback for example, it would disappear, giving way to a movie in full screen 16:9.
Although the "system-on-chip" with the ARM-architecture now associated mostly with smartphones and tablets, manufacturers of such decisions tend to expand their scope. For example, Qualcomm and NVIDIA really expect to use their SoC in the "big" mobile computers running the operating system, Windows 8 , currently under development in the bowels of Microsoft. In this context, particular interest is the reference site PC World plans to release quad-core Qualcomm's proprietary version of the processor Snapdragon S4, designed specifically for this type of PC.
According to senior vice president of Qualcomm Rob Chandhok (Rob Chandhok), which refers to the source of the line quad-core Snapdragon S4 will enable manufacturers to build mobile computers that will be noticeably lighter and thinner than the famous MacBook Air from Apple and the same ultrabuki, and can compete with Intel and AMD. In addition, the use of these chips in laptops running Windows 8 will bring them additional functionality, such as support for cellular networks of the fourth generation, and these are expected by the end of SoC this year.
