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Raspberry Pi 3 to sport Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE – first photos emerge
A Raspberry Pi 3 with onboard Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) support has emerged today. The Model B Raspberry Pi 3 will be the first in the family of tiny cheap-and-cheerful ARM-powered computers to feature builtin wireless networking. For previous models, owners have had to make do with wired Ethernet, USB Wi- …
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Sunday 28th February 2016 00:15 GMT penguin42
CPC listing it
CPC's March 'computer world' edition landed today (not on their website yet) but it lists the Pi3B as '1.2GHz 64 bit quadcore ARM 7' (which seems inconsistent).
The detail says quad core 1.2GHz Broadcom BCM2837 CPU, 1GB RAM, BCM 43143 wifi&bluetooth le, 4xUSB2.....
All yours for £26.38+VAT; order code SC1401241
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Sunday 28th February 2016 06:55 GMT Conundrum1885
Re: CPC listing it
Might indeed be 1.2 GHz, the feature size is smaller and as such it will be lots faster.
If they are consistent the chip's max speed will be a bit faster but they clock it down to increase reliability under adverse conditions.
I also found that at least with my two Zeros they are learning to use better capacitors.
The early Pi's had issues with the electrolytics so they have been replaced with ceramics
that are the same capacity but lower ESR so they smooth out spikes better.
Still advisable to use a good well made power supply as the cheaper units are known to go flaky
at near their rated current or in some cases as low as 200mA (cough phone chargers /cough)
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Sunday 28th February 2016 09:37 GMT Anonymous Coward
Changes from Pi 2
Comparing the JPGs in the article to a Pi 2 in front of me, I notice a few interesting things that might help predict the spec/features.
The ACT / PWR LEDs have moved from near top left to near bottom left. Instead at top left there is a slim white header/connector/?
There is an extra unpopulated 2 pin jumper just below the right hand side of the GPIO connector. Probably a RUN header, as fitted to the Pi Zero, but you never know.
On the underside there is a very curious white connector/header with 8(?) tracks going to it. It's below the HDMI connector when looking sideways on. So could that be some kind of SATA or other serial interface?
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Sunday 28th February 2016 13:31 GMT Jason Bloomberg
Re: Changes from Pi 2
On the underside there is a very curious white connector/header with 8(?) tracks going to it. It's below the HDMI connector when looking sideways on. So could that be some kind of SATA or other serial interface?
It seems the Wi-Fi connects to the SoC using an SDIO bus, which I would guess is why it's still four USB 2.0 ports + 10/100 LAN same as on earlier versions. I would expect the Bluetooth controller also attaches to the same SDIO bus and my guess would be this is a connector for additional, external SDIO devices.
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Monday 29th February 2016 03:19 GMT Henry Wertz 1
SATA/NAS Pi?
Re: putting SATA, dual ethernet, or the like on the Pi. Doable, and it's not some big problem with power budget; it's cost. SATA's not an expensive port, but when you're selling a device for $30 total it is. There're ARM boards with SATA (Allwinner A20-based boards for instance do have on-board SATA as opposed to a USB to SATA bridge that some devices have), more ethernet ports, and so on, but they just cost an extra $10 or $20.
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Monday 29th February 2016 12:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
For my uses these Pi 3 boards are just not worth having simply because of the unwelcome bundled wifi/bluetooth, which are just extra power wasted and a potential security risk. Pity, as I'd have had a use for the beefier CPU cores otherwise.
As things stand it's no deal and I'm looking at other non-RPi options to do the job instead.
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Monday 29th February 2016 13:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
This maybe be a new Pi but more customer are noticing the in click bullying on Pi forums. People get baited, goaded, posts filled with unicorn comments or recipe posts and posts get deleted while other posters brag about getting posts delete. Is that acceptable in today’s world, a lower cast system? I’m sure fan boys will justify it!
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Tuesday 1st March 2016 15:19 GMT x 7
Re: £25
£26.38 + VAT from CPC
£27.86 + VAT from Farnells Element 14
which considering they're both the same company is just a bit daft
RS Components have them at £26.75 + VAT, which actually makes that more expensive than at least one of their distributors, as "The PiHut" has them at £30 including VAT
Delivery charges may make the difference though.............
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Monday 29th February 2016 16:44 GMT fissuria
Really?
If I was really wondering about getting my hands on a nasty little device like the Pi3, I would put my money on the new odroid C2:
http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G145457216438
a few reasons:
2GHz
2GB RAM
HDMI 2.0 with 4K support
Gigabit Ethernet (dedicated Gigabite PHY, not USB)
$40 USD
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