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iPhone Nano Concept Photo?
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The iPhone nano makes sense at the moment. There is a financial crisis, not a lot of people can afford flashy expensive gadgets like the iPhone 3G. People want the iPhone, but they cant afford it. This will fix that.
Also, everyone in my school thinks the iPhone is amazing but the price prevents them from purchasing it. If Apple want the youth market, this is how they should go about doing it.
HOWEVER, I dont think this photo is real. I mean, why is the App Store on there? The resolution on all the apps would be screwed!
Also, everyone in my school thinks the iPhone is amazing but the price prevents them from purchasing it. If Apple want the youth market, this is how they should go about doing it.
HOWEVER, I dont think this photo is real. I mean, why is the App Store on there? The resolution on all the apps would be screwed!
Don't buy these points of view!
For example if Apple goes with a new ARM chip with the latest PowerVR hardware they can get rid of the current hardware video decoder. That is one chip easily removed from the mother board. Depending upon what they are up to with the triad of ARM, PA Semi and the PowerVR people one could expect the integration of more external circuitry. The potential is for a very small PC board. Moreso if they drop WiFi and the antennas for that. Even WiFi though might not be a problem if they implement IP for that inboard the main chip.
There is a more than reasonable chance that they can deliver the entire feature set of the current IPhone in a significantly cheaper andvmore reliable package. That package of course being smaller, possibly dramatically smaller if WiFi and GPS is deleted. The flip side is that the case can't get to small as there is a need for screen size, so maybe few features are deleted.
Very possibly but it really doesn't matter. What this thread demonstrates is that the world is not one size fits all. Apple needs more models for the same reason RIM does. This is another thing that is surprising in this thread, that is the number of people that think Apple can stay in the game with one player. They can't.
In anyevent fake or not I don't see a sign that there is much of a difference in the designs to allow for creative marketing to address different markets. I believe Apple will come out with a Nano phone but this device will be more IPod Nano based than Touch based. Or a mix mash of the two interfaces. Apple already has patents for such cell phone approaches.
So fake or not more cell phones are coming from Apple. It is hard to escape that reality. I'm just waiting for IPhone Maxi, that is a check book size or slightly smaller smart phone.
Dave
Yep that is kind of the point. The features would either be the same or very similar. The core apps are useful on an even smaller IPhone.
There is no reason to believe this at all. The smaller size can be easily enabled by higher integration hardware. If anything a smaller IPhone means much lower costs. I'm not sure why people continue to promote this error.
For example if Apple goes with a new ARM chip with the latest PowerVR hardware they can get rid of the current hardware video decoder. That is one chip easily removed from the mother board. Depending upon what they are up to with the triad of ARM, PA Semi and the PowerVR people one could expect the integration of more external circuitry. The potential is for a very small PC board. Moreso if they drop WiFi and the antennas for that. Even WiFi though might not be a problem if they implement IP for that inboard the main chip.
There is a more than reasonable chance that they can deliver the entire feature set of the current IPhone in a significantly cheaper andvmore reliable package. That package of course being smaller, possibly dramatically smaller if WiFi and GPS is deleted. The flip side is that the case can't get to small as there is a need for screen size, so maybe few features are deleted.
Very possibly but it really doesn't matter. What this thread demonstrates is that the world is not one size fits all. Apple needs more models for the same reason RIM does. This is another thing that is surprising in this thread, that is the number of people that think Apple can stay in the game with one player. They can't.
In anyevent fake or not I don't see a sign that there is much of a difference in the designs to allow for creative marketing to address different markets. I believe Apple will come out with a Nano phone but this device will be more IPod Nano based than Touch based. Or a mix mash of the two interfaces. Apple already has patents for such cell phone approaches.
So fake or not more cell phones are coming from Apple. It is hard to escape that reality. I'm just waiting for IPhone Maxi, that is a check book size or slightly smaller smart phone.
Dave
Japanese market wants it smaller and smaller and don't have any complexes about it, the women there have small hands and good sight.
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I saw a lot of them in the shops about two years ago. Funnily enough, that's the only place a saw them, but now I don't even see them there!
It is NOT an Apple act
To just minimize the original and call it Nano..
What we see here is a Mini Me version of the iPhone, and Apple never Done this before. The iPod Nano is a completely different device then its big brother. even the MacBooks are different from their Pro versions. If such Nano version exists, It would look different. my be it will shrink to the sizes of the original screen, with no Margins...
To just minimize the original and call it Nano..
What we see here is a Mini Me version of the iPhone, and Apple never Done this before. The iPod Nano is a completely different device then its big brother. even the MacBooks are different from their Pro versions. If such Nano version exists, It would look different. my be it will shrink to the sizes of the original screen, with no Margins...
I think it is fake. See there's no sleep button in the "iPhone nano", the poorly round edges and the wrong reflection of the front (you will find the home button space is shorter than the reflection one's). Seems it is just an iPhone 3G image downloaded from the Internet then photoshopped.
Only just seen this, I hope they are fake because I'd like the nano to have a separate design identity to the other iPhone.
European market
Well, in Europe a lot of people laughed at the frenzy, when Steve Jobs presented the 1st generation iPhone. It's huge, clumsy and didn't even support the 3G we're used for years. The iPhone 3G took care of some of the worst things, but it's still an outdated phone, compared to what we've had for some time.
I'm a mac-user, and I love the concept of the iPhone GUI, but just didn't want to carry a brick around.
I welcome the idea of a smaller iPhone, though I don't believe these photos. The proportionatly smaller hole for the camera lens witnesses a Photoshop novice in action.
Well, in Europe a lot of people laughed at the frenzy, when Steve Jobs presented the 1st generation iPhone. It's huge, clumsy and didn't even support the 3G we're used for years. The iPhone 3G took care of some of the worst things, but it's still an outdated phone, compared to what we've had for some time.
I'm a mac-user, and I love the concept of the iPhone GUI, but just didn't want to carry a brick around.
I welcome the idea of a smaller iPhone, though I don't believe these photos. The proportionatly smaller hole for the camera lens witnesses a Photoshop novice in action.
Big buy for a smaller iphone
There is no doubting that this could be another one of those must have phones, but it would depend on four things.
1. The price of the phone. if its below the £100 mark then apple will have to buy it own bank to keep the money.
2. The operator, currently there is just one in the UK and that O2. if it was open to other operators then option 1 plus another bank to store more of it income.
3. The software, since its a smaller screen there will be issues with the touch screen and firmware/software it may need to be modified to work within a smaller area this would prove a challenge to developers alike. And there is the interesting issue of people who have larger fingers having to work within a smaller area, how have they dealt with that If they have found a way around those mine fields then option 1 again and a third bank as back up for the second and first banks.
4.The memory, the iPhone 3g current comes in 8 and 16g what will the nano come in with and will apple announce an upping of the capacity to maybe 32 or even 64gb. this would mean the nano could have the 8 and 16gb place thereby giving the consumer more of a selection. And yes if this did happen then 1 and a couple of more banks.
Let see what happens in January. im keeping my wallet closed until then?
** This is a firth issue i have just thought of. If the iphone nano is to be produced and option 4 is the road that apple select, what will they do with their current iphone products... will they reduce to clear to make way for the nano?
once again more food for thought
There is no doubting that this could be another one of those must have phones, but it would depend on four things.
1. The price of the phone. if its below the £100 mark then apple will have to buy it own bank to keep the money.
2. The operator, currently there is just one in the UK and that O2. if it was open to other operators then option 1 plus another bank to store more of it income.
3. The software, since its a smaller screen there will be issues with the touch screen and firmware/software it may need to be modified to work within a smaller area this would prove a challenge to developers alike. And there is the interesting issue of people who have larger fingers having to work within a smaller area, how have they dealt with that If they have found a way around those mine fields then option 1 again and a third bank as back up for the second and first banks.
4.The memory, the iPhone 3g current comes in 8 and 16g what will the nano come in with and will apple announce an upping of the capacity to maybe 32 or even 64gb. this would mean the nano could have the 8 and 16gb place thereby giving the consumer more of a selection. And yes if this did happen then 1 and a couple of more banks.
Let see what happens in January. im keeping my wallet closed until then?
** This is a firth issue i have just thought of. If the iphone nano is to be produced and option 4 is the road that apple select, what will they do with their current iphone products... will they reduce to clear to make way for the nano?
once again more food for thought
Not entire sure what/where you're seeing, but on both of them, its the same language...
No, he's partly right. On MR front page the "Nano" has French text below the icons, but so does the normal 3G.
We must not forget this: there are many people using a phone mainly for calls and text messaging and they would rather have a phone with less features.
The other day a coworker was telling me that the iPhone has many features he wouldn't use and it would be nice to have a more balanced model, less costy version with less features.
Apple might be doing a smaller phone for that kind of people. They could strip down Wifi, GPS, let the 3G stay, make a 4GB version. There are many phones like that nowadays and Apple might be seeking its share on a lower chunk of the market. A smaller screen size would be a problem, yes, on what concerns the apps but developers can make the necessary changes in order to get things working. Another nice step would be selling it with through carriers but also free of carriers (with a higher price) but that's what have been happening in my country since we have mobile phones around here.
The other day a coworker was telling me that the iPhone has many features he wouldn't use and it would be nice to have a more balanced model, less costy version with less features.
Apple might be doing a smaller phone for that kind of people. They could strip down Wifi, GPS, let the 3G stay, make a 4GB version. There are many phones like that nowadays and Apple might be seeking its share on a lower chunk of the market. A smaller screen size would be a problem, yes, on what concerns the apps but developers can make the necessary changes in order to get things working. Another nice step would be selling it with through carriers but also free of carriers (with a higher price) but that's what have been happening in my country since we have mobile phones around here.
Why does the resolution have to be smaller just because the screen is smaller?
There's been several newer phones come out that have the same form factor as the iPhone, but with 640 x 480 resolutions, surely, the screen would be the same resolution, if a tad smaller, then all the apps resolutions would be saved
There's been several newer phones come out that have the same form factor as the iPhone, but with 640 x 480 resolutions, surely, the screen would be the same resolution, if a tad smaller, then all the apps resolutions would be saved
I get along with it just fine... Just because you've never used it for more than 5 minutes, and haven't got used to it, doesn't mean everyone else struggles...
Just took a closer look on the photo. The iPhone has a resolution of 480:320 which gives us an aspect ratio of 3:2. However the iPhone nano in the photo has an aspect ratio close to 4:3 so there's no way this is real.
fake fake!
you can clearly see that it is a fake because the camera hole is also smaller. some parts can not be made smaller and would have the similar size in a nano phone. i also think that the keyboard would not be working in that size, but apple could invent a standard landscape keyboard design instead as a standard input on such device.
however, i am still waiting for the new MAC BRICK which can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC6mEkKSouA
you can clearly see that it is a fake because the camera hole is also smaller. some parts can not be made smaller and would have the similar size in a nano phone. i also think that the keyboard would not be working in that size, but apple could invent a standard landscape keyboard design instead as a standard input on such device.
however, i am still waiting for the new MAC BRICK which can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC6mEkKSouA
By that logic the iPod touch should be the only iPod with a screen. However, the nano still exists. Some people don't want all those apps, they just want a device to call people and play their iTunes songs and movies, like a more modern version of Motos iTunes offerings. Also, unless Apple offers some kind of scaling tool in the developer kit, it might take as much or more effort to make a smaller touchscreen app than the original.
It's a concept of what one might look like, not a spy photo of the actual device.