“Stephane Richard knows a thing or two about the iPhone,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD.
“In addition to carrying one of Apple’s iconic smartphones, Richard is also the CEO of France Telecom, whose networks carry traffic from more iPhones than any other carrier except AT&T. France Telecom, with its Orange brands, sells the iPhone in 15 countries,” Fried reports. “‘They just created smartphones with the iPhone,’ Richard said during an hourlong chat over breakfast at the W Hotel in San Francisco last week. ‘Everybody should be grateful to them to have put such a product in our market.'”
Fried reports, “On working with Apple on smaller SIM cards [Richard said]: ‘We are going to work with them in order to standardize a new format of SIM which takes into account our needs with security and authentication and also is compatible with their wishes in terms of size. I understood that the next iPhone would be smaller and thinner and they are definitely seeking some space.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Apple’s going to make a device thinner and lighter? Nah, it’ll never happen!!! 😉
Ho, Ho, Ho!
What the CEO did not understand was that he’s not to say a word about next iPhone or whatever information is conveyed to him.
When!??
AHA! I knew it! The iPhone Shuffle is on its way.
Just 1 finger tap to listen to music
2 finger tap to iCal
3 finger tap to make a call
Tap slide Tap to find songs on iTMS
tap tap slide tapitty-tap to buy
See! Eeeeassy!
And on a third finger poke it plays “Je ne regrette rien” if it detects you’re in Paris.
I guess the other phone company in France will get the next iPhone first. 8-P
He didn’t even say anything, they probably just mentioned, “Future iPhones are getting smaller and thinner, and we need all the space we can get, so lets use these new sims”.. It’s not exactly earth shattering… Tech gets smaller, lighter, better, faster
Wooow, this guy MUST have inside info. “Smaller and thinner… maybe” What an oracle. Who would ever have thought of that.
Apple wants the SIM card as small as possible, to make as much space as possible available for more important things. That does not necessarily mean making the NEXT iPhone (the one that should already be mostly finalized at this point) is “smaller and thinner.” This guy obviously does not have any special inside information regarding the next iPhone.
Did he have improper behavior with the hotel’s maid after the hourlong chat?? Just like his fellow country man… 🙂
Not until she cleaned his house.
I wouldn’t have said ‘smaller and thinner’ if I was him.
That is news to me.
Haven’t read anywhere about next iPhone being ‘smaller’ until here now. After all, competitors were all having bigger form factors, u know.
I am sure he is regretting having spoken…
Wow, truly earthshatterring news.
In other news, the sky is blue and fire is hot.
thinner and lighter is just a diversion.
they are working on a big-ass rolling table phone.