A new and improved version of the iPhone, with dual-core processor and improved graphics, will soon be available in Korea. The fresh iPhone is even said to have an OLED display and video-chat capabilities via a frontal camera.

"We don't see any bigger hurdle to introduce 4G iPhones here, as legal issues were completely cleared. It’s possible to launch the devices within the first half," a high-ranking KT executive told The Korea Times, asking not to be identified. KT is a Korean Apple partner, which has sold 220,000 units of 3G iPhones. By the end of this year, it is planning to sell 500,000 iPhones including 4G ones.

KT officials have also started rumours about an OLED display on the 4G iPhone, frontal camera and even a removable battery. This would honestly be too much. If there is one thing we have learned about Apple is that it does not go for removable batteries.

Shortly after, an Apple South Korea representative told this to The Korea Times, "With KT, we've been in talks with other telecom carriers to gauge the launching timing of 4G iPhones in South Korea. More tech-oriented features will be added to the models."

What we know for sure is that the new PowerVR SGX Series5 graphics processors are out for grabs, as they were launched at CES. It is also a known fact that the iPhone and iPod touch have had only PowerVR chipsets since the beginning. Imagination, the company that produces these types of processors, said that it had already started making a test chip for a lead “unnamed partner.”

If the next generation iPhones have these processors installed, they will be capable of rendering Open GL 3.2 and DirectX 10 applications, which are the main features of the SGX545 chipsets. If these GPUs are used together with a multi-core CPU, the speed boost increases considerably. So, it only seems normal that the devices using SGX545 have a dual-core CPU.

Maybe Google's Nexus One has started to scare Apple a little, although the lack of multitouch doesn't really make it a worthy contender. It does have that attractive Android 2.1, though. This could be the only cause of such a move on Apple's side. Otherwise, it just doesn't seem like the usual Apple strategy.


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