The iPhone 3G S is in the wild at last and thankfully some other eejits have decided to take the plunge and rip their new iPhones to pieces to save the rest of us the trouble. Inside they have found some surprisingly high-spec kit that can potentially do a lot more than Apple is letting on.
The iPhone 3G S can record video and VGA resolution. This is good – after all, phones have been doing video at that resolution for some time. When the phone repair gurus at Rapid Repair cracked an iPhone 3G S open, however, the discovered a far more capable camera than they expected.
The video hardware insiode the 3G S can apparently record in HD at up to 720p resolution. The camera – and the graphics chip, which RR have confirmed is a PowerVR SGX with 256 MB of RAM – is also more than capable of real-time video conferencing.
Doubtless there would be some kind of performance hit for enabling these facilities which Apple must feel would detract from the iPhone experience – otherwise surely they would have been active from the start. Having these capabilitie sinnce the hardware does hold out a tantalising possibility, though. Could a jailbroken or otherwise unlocked iPhone 3G S be persuaded to take advantage of such hidden hardware?
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