XSKN appears to be Apple's designated iPhone Nano PR agency at this point, releasing Photos of the, until now only rumored, device (we still don't buy it btw - imagine trying to type on that sucker). Perhaps Apple's lawyers are too busy body-slamming Psystar.
More shots below...
Gizmodo got another shot:
Macrumors posted a mockup last night:
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The one from mac rumors looks
The one from mac rumors looks photoshopped to me, look at the back it only says "iPhone" not "iPhone Nano".
no really! thats why it says
no really! thats why it says the last pic is a mock up right above the picture! READ!
Well, the iPod nano only says
Well, the iPod nano only says "iPod" at the back., even when there was only the iPod Shuffle, the iPod nano and the iPod.
This is not happening...
This is not happening... there is no iPhone Nano.
No way.
Their mockup is still using the old firmware. Look at the 3g icon. Not happening.
if there was an iphone nano
if there was an iphone nano it wouldnt be just a smaller iphone, it would be unusable (think text input etc, not to mention all the effort gone into the ap store et etc, maybe a simple music player / phone, for those not needing apps and internet, (getting the low end of the market and securing the evolving ipod to music on your mobile market)
I would agree with all of
I would agree with all of your comments but there are a few facts that still give this rumor a little validity:
1) Apple's strategy of offering a diverse product line with options for every price level
2) XSKN has been right in the past about the case designs. Not sure why they would put effort into building a case without there being a substantial reason (i.e. they know something we do not)
3) We assume that the iPhone nano would be the iPhone 3g on a smaller scale thus the app store and typing would not work. I for one would not begin to predict what Apple is capable of.
re: #2
Why would they put in the effort? Because it's worth the risk. If they are right, they have the only iPhone nano case on the market from the moment its announced until another competitor comes up with one. That would lead to a lot of sales. These cases cost pennies to make between materials and chinese manufacturing.
Too bad they are wrong.
oh what a surprise my captcha is wrong.
Here is what doesn't make any
Here is what doesn't make any sense. Where is the cost savings to Apple in an iPhone Nano? Everything we've seen such as this case indicate nothing more than a smaller iPhone. That won't reduce costs. If anything, they will increase.
To reduce costs Apple would have to remove hardware. That could mean only 4GB storage. Or removing a touchscreen, a la iPod Nano. It seems more likely an iPhone Nano would be similar in concept to an iPod Nano, ditching the touchscreen, keeping the accelerometer. Maybe they ditch Wifi, but then what's the point?
An iPhone Nano also can't take advantage of the built-in revenue stream of the App store unless it has a crazy DPI and touchscreen capabilities. But then hardware costs can't be reduced significantly.
The posted concepts of an iPhone Nano don't pass the sniff test. I wouldn't discount that Apple may have some sort of iPhone Nano in the works, or even released in the near future. But I imagine it will be more similar to the iPod Nano than current iPhone.
NOTHING MAKES SENSE ANY MORE!!!!!!
*splode*
Mind if I join you?
Mind if I join you?
Nano iPhone might have been specially built for China Mobile
Just guesswork but ...
This all begins to make more sense if you consider that the Nano iPhone might have been specially built for China Mobile.
There are many reasons why a “Nano” iPhone does not make any sense … yet there is one reason why it might fly in the Far East. Consider that this could be a “customized” model designed in concert with China Mobile (no wifi, no app store, no mobile me, no itunes, etc.). This model would be compatible with EDGE 2.5G and TD-SCDMA 3G and would support Monternet (China Mobile’s VAS platform). China Mobile is subsidizing all TD ready handsets authorized in China. Of China Mobile’s 400+ million users, approximately 290 million are pre-paid users (no contract). Many pre-pay users aspire to iPhone but cannot afford without a price incentive (China Mobile subsidy to go on contract). The Nano iPhone may also be available “unlocked” at a slightly higher price-point. Bottom line … a Nano TD iPhone (locked or unlocked) might be in reach for hundreds of millions of pre-pay users in China.
While building any customized model for a carrier is totally out of character for Apple, consider that showing support for China's TD-SCDMA is Apple entry fee to China's official telecom market. The Nano may even be pre-sold to China Mobile for their inventory. Yet I do not believe Apple signed an exclusive with China Mobile. The next deal will be with China Unicom. This will be a standard iPhone 3G supporting W-CDMA 3G.
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iPhone Nano is complete bullshit
Do you believers in the iPhone nano actually believe that every app that has ever been programmed for the iPhone will be adapted to work on the iPhone nanos screen size?. Do you really think that that would be anywhere something that apple would do?
stop it, stop it, stop it!
Rumor about fingerprint readers on the next iphone or other more useful ideas, please
Screen size nonissue
I see the smaller screen size as a nonissue here as far as current apps working. Apple can make a smaller screen with the SAME resolution as the larger iPhone. That way, all apps from the app store work exactly the same on the smaller screen. Everything just ends up looking smaller because all the pixels are crunched into a smaller space. As I recall, they have an extra high resolution on the current iPod Nano screens.
The touch keyboard, on the other hand, is another story. Maybe Apple will have a new software update that has a different approach to text input. Hmm. Maybe.
update to my comment
It was actually the previous iPod Nano (the fatty) that had a 320x240 resolution on a very small screen. The current iPod Nano has a larger screen and that same 320x240 resolution. So changing the screen size and keeping the resolution can and has been done on these little Apple devices.
If this iPhone Nano is for real it looks like its screen would be like two iPod fatty Nano screens on top of each other, equalling the 320x480 resolution that current iPhones have but at a smaller size.
No; the current iPod nano and
No; the current iPod nano and its predecessor share the same exact screen. Because the new nano is "leaner," and because the screen is now vertical rather than horizontal, it simply looks different. They screens are EXACTLY the same.
So what will be the selling
So what will be the selling point? Making the higher resolution screen will counterbalance any other cost savings they might make, so what would you buy a phone with fiddly buttons as opposed to a better one with decent-sized buttons?
"9h42" on both phone on the
"9h42" on both phone on the screenshot