iPhone WiFi may speed up to 802.11n
By Michael W. Jones
There has already been a great deal of speculation that the new iPhone will have faster 3G speeds. Now there is reason to believe that the Wi-Fi speeds will increase as well.
We covered the 3G speed increases in this space two weeks ago. Now we are hearing fairly authoritative rumors that 3G is not the only speed limit increase that will come with the new iPhone. AppleInsider has reported that certain resource files describing a third-generation iPod Touch have surfaced and hint of faster Wi-Fi, according to a HotHardWare story. These files, which are included in the beta iPhone 3.0 firmware package, show that a new Broadcom chip (part number BCM4329 instead of the current BCM4325) will be a part of the new Touch devices. That new part number supports low-power 802.11n and Bluetooth.
It must be said that the information that was seen in the iPod resource files is no guarantee that a new Wi-Fi standard is coming to the new iPhone, which is coming out in June. It would make a great deal of sense, though, to add 802.11n support to both the iPhone and iPod Touch. The current models of both support the older, slower 5.0Ghz 802.11a and 2.4Ghz 802.11g standards. Quite recently, however, Apple introduced a new Airport Extreme wireless router that provides simultaneous support for dual-band 802.11n, with both 2.4Ghz and 5.0Ghz bands supported, though it is also backward compatible to the older standards.
Users always want more speed. Since the iPhone and iPod Touch mobile platforms are all about connectivity, speed increases on both the 3G and WiFi fronts would help to keep the user base happy with the product lines. The third major kind of speed, that revolving around the phone’s CPU, have not appeared much in the rumor mill, but one has to wonder, especially with a new operating system coming in June, if Apple engineers have perhaps tweaked the processor speed a little as well.
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