"Seems large now," the source said, "but at the time it was really impressive seeing basically a version of OS X running on it."
He continued: "From the looks of the logic board photos, Apple had a decent idea in 2005 of where the iPhone would end up, even if the final product became much more integrated.
The ARM chip looks like a variant of the Samsung S3C2410, according to which Ars Technica writer Andrew Cunningham, who said it is "a distant relative of the chip the first iPhone ended up using, just older and slower."
He added: "This chip is also an ARM9 chip, while the original iPhone eventually ended up using an ARM11 chip, but obviously Apple intended to use Samsung-manufactured ARM chips even this far back.".
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