“Once again iPhone rumors are floating in China… Why is China the place where these rumors start? Simple. Thousands of people are involved in building iPhone components and, those that have the means, know how to get inside information. Once it starts, the information spreads. These rumors are used by accessory manufacturers and agents in China to decide what they will produce, when they will start to manufacture it and when they should unload their old stock,” iDealsChina reports.
“No more speculating. The new iPhone is a Nano Phone! We just got these images of a silicone case design by XSKN for the new Nano iPhone. This case is in production. We are not sure when they will release it on their site. The XSKN designs will give you an idea of the shape and size of the new Nano iPhone. We understand that a number of companies are producing cases as of last week,” iDealsChina reports. “If you remember, before iPhone 3G was released, a number of companies including Griffin had advanced information of the size and shape of iPhone 3G. We understand that once one company starts making a mold their information is passed onto other mold companies or accessory companies through a China underground network.”
iDealsChina reports, “It is the same height as the just released Nano but wider and thicker and with the same iPhone 3G contours. It has 3 sensors, camera, mirror screen but no 3G. Production will start on the 20th with 60,000 to 80,000/day pieces coming off the assembly line. Steve Jobs will be announcing it during the January MacWorld Show and you will find it in the stores shortly afterwards
More info and images in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Markim” for the heads up.]
Um… No.
No way. How will apps work on a smaller display? Devs would have been told about this a while ago. Unless you won’t be able to install 3rd party apps on it?
looks schnappy!
Why isn’t this simply amazing information? Where is the surprise product?
No 3G? Wonder what carrier will be handling this phone. Perhaps this phone isn’t hard-wired to ATT and will appear across the board.
No 3G would be unacceptable. Even the cheapest midrange phones have 3G these days.
Please don’t let it be true.
Is the screen Matte or Glossy?
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well, if the screen is proportionally smaller… it could work – but I doubt that Apple would do such a thing. IMO, if they do a nano iPhone (big if), then chances are the display will be far smaller, and not touch sensitive. But really, who needs a nano iPhone??? the original and 3G are small enough, and the price is correct. Perhaps a nano iPod Touch??? Nah.
I say highly unlikely…
Without redesigning the interface and thus having two versions, the only way this works is if everything is just smaller, albeit with the same number of pixels just at a higher resolution. If that’s the case using the thing will be a pain.
# BacMook – “Is the screen Matte or Glossy?”
…Who cares? As long as it´s glossy!!!
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No way. That’s the reverse: they will announce the Mac Touch
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Talking shit again!
If anything, that’d be more like an iPod touch nano
Does it have firewire?
This time Chinese are ahead of Apple, they have the copies out before the new iPhones are even announced. We walked through electronics market in Shanghai today and spotted these. Luckily my buddy snapped couple of pics and put them up.
http://gallery.me.com/seppolehto#100588
iPhone Air eh?
This is as bogus as paid analyst Wu’s iPhone nano claim that spiraled into the black hole of nothingness. I don’t think the iPhone will get smaller ever, and unlikely that it will get bigger, even though I desire a 10″ Macbook. I do think the processor/graphics, etc. is going to get pumped. Videoconferencing is on the horizon, but not until it is perfect. Landscape keyboard, cut and paste systemwide is ready now…yawn.
Id/Carmack type standards on apps and games that demand resources are going to be addressed before any major physical changes. It aint broke and don’t need fixing, just some under the hood tweaks and no stutters in interface and games.
1) That phone says Cingular instead of AT&T;on it.
2) Chinese knock-offs are possible source of rumor.
3) Home button is too small to be real.
4) As was stated earlier, this would change the dimensions of the UI screwing up a lot of apps.
5) More likely this is just an iPod nano redesign that just plays music/videos with no apps or wireless.
MW = probably.
I saw those iPhone minis too, didn’t try out. The smaller iPhone makes sense in Asia, just need to find a smaller screen with the same pixel count. For people with baby fingers the mini would be perfect, and that’s is most Asian girls.
A pink iPhone Air, wow, I’ve seen only aluminum and black.
as long as it has a new headphone jack configuration that is completely incompatible with the two existing configs…..count me in.
will it have a replaceable battery and harddirve or will steve continue to be a planetary rapist? Ipod and iphone have inbuilt obsolescence which is a crime against the limited resources on this planet. wake up psycho steve and smell the limited coffee we all have left…
Hey, just a thought.
Maybe its the iPhone Nano rip off of the iPhone china rip off of the….. you get it. Someone steals bits and pieces of technology, sells it to a China company and they make look-a-likes.
Sounds about right to me.
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This rumor is nothing more than stock manipulation.
When asked about introducing new models to the iPhone lineup at the most recent conference call, Steve Jobs replied:
“Babe Ruth only had one home run, he just kept hitting it over and over.”
give me a break…..ill believe it when i see it…
iPhone batteries are replaceable and recycled by Apple.
Coffee grows on bushes. No shortage there.
You are an idiot.
The above three facts are true. Just google them.
A physically smaller screen does NOT necessarily mean fewer pixels, just SMALLER pixels (higher pixel density). DUH, people.
Maybe it’s an iPod touch nano?
Then again, maybe it’s all bullshit.
Stay tuned…
There will be an iPhone Nano. It will be cheaper, with fewer features and cost less (maybe nothing with a contract). To try to sell them to school kids, it will not have GPS, 3G, data (wifi only). Kids don’t need that extra stuff. It will be a smaller iPod Touch with a phone and text messaging. $40 a month.
Plus, the iPhone price will drop to $99. And there will be a tablet so Apple will be going bigger and smaller and cheaper.