“The idea that Apple might eventually introduce a family of iPhones of different sizes that sell at different prices is hardly new. A rumor that an iPhone nano would be launched before Christmas 2007 was making the rounds just over a year ago,” Phillip Elmer-Dewitt blogs for Fortune.
“But the timing was wrong last summer and, according to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, this summer’s rumor is also a bit off,” Elmer-Dewitt reports. “‘Just as the company slowly diversified the iPod lineup and entered lower price points with every new version,’ wrote Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster in May, ‘we expect Apple to launch new models of the iPhone at lower price points in calendar year 2009.'”
“The Daily Mailitem suggests that the phone will be available in British shops by Christmas for 150 pounds (just under $300). It doesn’t offer any supporting evidence beyond an unnamed ‘industry source’ …The London tabloid, which is better known for celebrity gossip than technology reporting, also cites an ‘expert’ who suggests the nano phone would have a touch wheel on the back and a display on the front so that numbers would be dialed from behind. Apple filed a patent last year for a device that resembles this, but nothing came of it.”
Full article here.
This rumour is clearly off base. Why would Apple put controls on both faces. If you’ve got a touch interface that changes with the use then such an arrangement would be pointless.
This leak stinks of a FUD piece desperate for any way to slow the iPhone tsunami. If imitation be the most sincere form of flattery, FUD is is the bellwether of incredible fear.
This is a bit off-topic, or maybe not: What happened to the FCC approval and going public 6 weeks before release with regard to the 3G iphone?
Anybody know??
It is also highly unlikely that Apple will stem the demand for the current phone at this time, and certainly not before one holiday season has gone by.
FUD, I agree!
iPhone nano? Whatever… smells like FUD to me. But then I can get myself a brand new iPhone real, real cheap – from China. Right here
I used to read the Daily Mailitem.
Anyway, iPhone will, sooner or later, come with PrePay… That day, i’ll buy one. No matter the size…
I wont buy an iPhone until it has Pay as You Go hot and cold running water and a soapdish.
Any news of the iPhone Giganto?
Rumoured to be over 12 feet high and weighing 4 tons, suitable as a vacation home for a family of four when fully extended….
Ah yes, the Big Ass iPhone – I cant wait.
@Tom
@ cptnkirk (loved your show by the way)
@ HueyLong (you don’t have a show do you?)
How is this FUD? How is this a sign of Fear Uncertainty and Doubt? It’s more like plain ignorance.
phones are not ‘where the puck is going to be’. I really doubt apple will do this. They tacked a cellphone onto the iPod touch just to get people to buy it now. They’ve achieved that. Phones are boring, why bother when you can do interesting stuff?
@Lady’s Man:
A show? Whaat?
Getting everyone to put off an iPhone purchase and wait for a cheaper, smaller one coming out before Christmas is a clear form of FUD designed to slow the iPhone momentum.
If Apple made the iPhone screen any smaller, it would not be suitible for viewing webpages.
Apple should have diversified into three iPhone versions long ago.
The cell phone market is not like the mp3 player market, it’s well seasoned and reacts quickly to market conditions.
Apple needs to move faster and better to shut them DOWN!
CHECK
http://WWW.IPHONENANO.COM !!!!!
What do u think?!
When Apple finally comes out with a phone that is not tied to any company that had to be granted immunity from lawsuits related to eavesdropping, then and only then will it become worth it! Until then there are enough people that don’t want all the data packages, bells and whistles that can be distracting. The “see look what I have” iPhone is not enticing enough when you factor in the compromise it takes to own one.