Rumors regarding the launch of a low-cost iPhone have intensified in recent months, the launch of the device being expected for the second part of this year. For now, nothing is known about it, apart from the fact that it would have a plastic casing, but today we also learn that it could use an SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon. Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), would be interested in using Qualcomm's SoC, which is produced using a 28nm manufacturing process, but only a cheap iPhone, the other iPhones will have chips from the A series implemented.
As a story of an information source knowing a lot about the market, Taiwanese TSMC accepts an order of processor production for Snapdragon based cheap edition iPhone made in Qualcomm, and Commercial Times reports when I seem to start production by the second-quarter in 2013.
To be honest, it seems to me that this is one of the least inspired rumors related to the cheap iPhone that Apple would use, and I think that it only has the role of increasing the value of Qualcomm's shares a little more. Since Apple has several models of A chips, what logical reason would the company have to choose a chip made by another manufacturer? Apple can implement an A5, A6, or A6x chip in the cheap iPhone and most likely will do so, because it is the cheapest and best solution.
Apple develops iOS to work as well as possible with a certain type of hardware, and rethinking the operating system to work with other processors is not what Apple will be willing to do.
