One analyst is predicting an iPhone Nano late this year:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN0929372220070709?rpc=44
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN0929372220070709?rpc=44
It will be a flip phone, 2 or 4 GB, will support Nike+, no or very limited internet, no touch screen, will have improved IM and text, sub $200/$40 and geared toward the 12-20 age range.
The Nano made ipod sales numbers, could do the same with iphones
It will be a flip phone, 2 or 4 GB, will support Nike+, no or very limited internet, no touch screen, will have improved IM and text, sub $200/$40 and geared toward the 12-20 age range.
The Nano made ipod sales numbers, could do the same with iphones
"We believe that iPod Nano will be converted into a phone because it's probably the only way for Apple to launch a lower end phone without severely cannibalizing iPod Nano," he said noting that the new phone could have "rather limited functionality."
The patent application, however, was filed in November 2006, and may simply represent different iterations of early iPhone plans than actual future devices.It describes a simple touchpad that can display different symbols for different modes of the device and the ways to operate such a device. These different symbols are illuminated as different modes of the device are selected and are used to operate iPhone Nano in that mode.
a $200 4 gig nano iphone with texting and IM would be killer in that age group.
Don't even need the net or email really. Not on that device.
I still don't get why Apple would make one. If you remove all the cool things that make the current iPhone what it is today, then what's left? A nano that somehow makes phone calls? What's interesting/innovative about that?
apple would never release it for less than $200, certainly not $130.