Cingular cell phone service - Apple slowly bumping up the speed on iPhones?

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Apple slowly bumping up the speed on iPhones?

tmoran@acm.org

2007-12-30, 3:33 pm

> make various functions more efficient they can ramp up the processor
> without adversely affecting battery life.
No. Battery life depends on CPU speed but not on code efficiency.
So they can keep the old CPU speed and battery life and use better
code to speed things up, or they can slow down the CPU and increase
battery life use better code to retain the same functional speed.

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