Apple brings a new adapter plug with iPhone 5 on micro-USB

Apple had to release an adapter to plug in Lighting iPhone 5 to the familiar format of micro-USB. The fact is that last year, the European Union passed a law by which each phone must support this standard.

The new adapter  is already available in online stores in Britain and France. It costs money to hardball very tiny adapter - $ 24.99. Most likely due to Chinese manufacturers and dealers, accessory appear in other countries.

The new 8-pin Lighting replaces your bulky 30-pin predecessor, appeared during the first iPod. Apple states that the speed is the new type of connector rise. True technology will still be based on USB 2.0, not 3.0. Apple did not supports port a more modern interface, as this would require major changes to the hardware on the iPhone 5 and the associated costs.

Lighting has high durability and reliability. According to Apple, Cable Lighting will tear and fray much less than that of its predecessor. The new interface pursues more aesthetic rather than technical objectives: it will save space inside the iPhone and iPod, and will better into the design of these devices.

In addition to Lighting does not matter which party is inserted in the connector. This is certainly convenient for most users. In Apple believe that the strategic advantages of using this connector justify temporary difficulties, which will go to him.

Apple also announced that the new plug Lightning will be available now and the usual accessories for iPhone - adapters for HDMI and VGA. And the old adapter to use with this kind of iPhone 5 will not work - Lightning converter with a 30-pin video streaming is not supported.

Based on ARM-architecture of the new generation A6 processor in the iPhone 5

Presenting the iPhone 5 on Wednesday, the company Apple, without going into technical details, stated that the new smartphone is built on a processor A6, which is twice as fast than A5 in the iPhone 4S, as well as for general and graphics performance. Crystal size with steel for 22% less. Moreover A6, despite an increase of up to 4 inches of screen and module LTE, and provides prolonged autonomy. As Apple do it?

 

As it became known to increase the performance of the chip is partly achieved by switching from 45 - to 32-nanometer production technology. Furthermore A6 processor that has two processing cores, made on the architecture of a new generation of ARM Cortex-A15.

Thanks to the "finer" process technology and application architecture Cortex-A15 company managed to provide long battery life phones: Up to 8 hours of voice data on 3G, up to 225 hours on call waiting and up to 40 hours of music playback.

Cortex-A15 architecture involves the ability to create chips with 1, 2, 4, 8, and possibly 16 cores. Clock frequency can be varied from 1.0 to 2.5 GHz. Unfortunately, data on the frequency used in the iPhone 5 processor yet, but it is clear that they are not too high to avoid high power consumption.

So incredibly optimistic disposition raises power and strength of the iPhone 5, which is to negotiate until the fall of 2013, Apple was the first one who released the finished product is a microprocessor architecture Cortex-A15. The rate is already done for the last four Nvidia Tegra, TI OMAP5 and Samsung Exynos 5, but these systems are not yet appeared. Qualcomm offers 28-nanometer chips for Snapdragon S4 Krait-micro-architecture similar Cortex-A15.

The amount of RAM iPhone 5 has traditionally not disclosed fashion by excess technical details, which is common among computers, should not be repeated in the world of smartphones. It is believed that this volume has doubled to 1 GB.