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iPhone Nano Concept Photo?

Good god, I really hope this isn't true. It would be a disaster, since the epectation would be that it works just like a regular iPhone, with all the apps working the same. And yet... there's no possible way it can if the screen size is reduced in any way.

As many have pointed out, the phone is really the perfect size now. It could maybe be a tad thinner (though not TOO thin), and lose a teensy bit off the top and bottom (though again, not TOO much) -- but it really can't afford to be any smaller in screen size, without serious issues to go along with it.
 
TheSlush said:
Not happening! They'd have to redesign and reconfigure the whole touch interface for the new size. As would all the developers with wares in the App store!
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Why? While the interface would undoubtedly be much tighter, if the "iPhone nano" used a higher dpi screen at the same resolution of its big brother, then apps wouldn't have to be redesigned at all. I've read this argument elsewhere, but it is only based on the assumption that Apple would use a similar dpi screen and thus the overall resolution would have to be smaller. But that's simply not a given. In fact, if these rumors are true, I'd be very surprised if Apple didn't use one of the tightest dpi screens available in a consumer electronics device.
 
Now they just have to make it unlocked and open.

And a removable battery.

And a card slot.

And DVB-H.
 
It wouldn't make sense.

This would be a step backwards into Apple's past where there were too many systems that competed on features and price but were basically the same. Remember the plethora of Performa models?

I'd think that churning out 4G iPhones for the 'Wal-Mart market' would make more sense, especially with the idea that the same plants and same equipment could be used to produce all of them. Making devices that require seperate plants or production lines is expensive and not really cost effective unless there are a whole gaggle of people looking for a phone that they can lose in a coat pocket.

An iPhone nano is a product looking for a market. It will have to be noticably crippled over the capability of the current iPhone 3g otherwise I've been ripped off...

Plus not to mention they just **** on the earlier small nearly square ipod nano. Why? To not confuse them? Hardly...

Another idea: Could this be a leak from Apple to sting those that market in their leaks? Something to throw people off the trail? Wouldn't that be funny...
 
Complete bogus. Does it need to be pointed out?

- iPhone is in French. Apple translates marketing stuff last. Unlikely to be real.
- Colour dispersion on the left indicates this is a photo of a CRT screen.

Also, people saying that the App Store won't work if they don't keep the resolution are wrong. The store is an online service, and can selectively show applications if they can run on the phone. Just like the iTunes store doesn't show french songs on the american store. If it uses the same system, developers will simply need to tweak their interfaces to get it to work. It would be a 5 minute job. There's very little code that needs to be modified (in fact, with Interface Builder, you might not even need to change any code).
 
Well assuming these photos are legit, which I very much doubt, the iPhone Nano is displaying a 3g symbol, so Apple would surely have to ditch the WiFi chipset in order fit everything into the smaller form factor....
 
Eswip said:
Why does everybody thinks an iPhone nano should be allmost the same as the original iPhone.. What about a iPod nano form factor, no touch-screen (so no appstore or what so ever), no internet.. just an iPod nano with some call and text functions.. maybe a camera..

The whole idea in this picture is pretty useless.. there would be almost no difference between the nano and the original..
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Agreed. Aside from a "mini iPhone" being stupid and altogether pointless, I think the biggest reason we won't see a device like this is that the iPod Nano was just updated, and it didn't become a "mini" iPod Touch - it retained the traditional iPod interface.

If an iPhone Nano does come to market (and I think it should), then I believe it will retain the iPod Nano's size and interface, with a slide-away number pad. Maybe a slide-away QWERTY keypad, like the LG Rumour has, since the Nano is pretty narrow...

But I don't think we'll get a scaled down iPhone with a Nano badge on it. It just wouldn't be very practical, especially when the on-screen keyboard is being used.
 
Personally, I see no point to the iPhone nano. The iPhone is already the right size. Just stuff more tech into it, please. If you want a smaller form factor, go for the squidget:
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They could make the screen smaller but with the ability to go portrait to widescreen, that would be a problem and there wouldn't be anything to gain.

Plus the crippling that would happen for the iPhone nano should have shown up somewhere before now. In some system file.

See, I don't know. Making the 'lessor of' to an already affordable product? making it lessor capable. As some have speculated already, what do you cut? Motion sensing? GPS? Resolution?

I guess if people want an 'iPhone wannabe' they can shlep to Verizon and get the Storm... Right?
 
I'm with Techguy172, I just don't see the point. The iPhone is already small enough.
 
The iPhone is poor enough as a phone, without making it smaller, with lesser battery life and a smaller cellular aerial for worse call quality.

Give it a removable battery and maybe I can see a point
 
Don't see the point? Do you guys ever put your phone in your pocket?

That said this sounds very unlikely. Same screen (or maybe slightly smaller, same rez, less bezel space top and bottom), better battery tech and a lot thinner would work better for me.

Lose the useless camera too to save some space.
 
iphone nano?

Look Ma! I learned me how to use photoshop!

This shows no imagination...could anyone seriously see Jobs approving this?
 
If there is a nano, this is what it needs

For an iPhone nano, the screen must be the same size, same number of pixels, same pixels per inch. The CPU must run no slower than the original iPhone. The case can be shorter by eliminating the black top and bottom sections. I can be thinner, and the sides can be shaved a tad. Change the glass surface to plastic. Remove the WiFi, GPS, 3G, and possibly camera. Max 8GB (i.e. 1 chip). This makes the device smaller with the ability to run all the same programs as the other models, with smaller case and same battery life (smaller battery but unit needs less power.) There you go.
 
I think this image is fake because it looks simply like a scale reduction of the regular iPhone. Wouldn't some of the physical features such as buttons, bezels, mic, camera, or logo possibly stay the same size, while the whole body gets smaller? Or possibly not get smaller on the same scale as the rest of the phone?
 
Not going to happen, I feel...

But then Apple seems to be pretty much a phone company these days, so what do I know?
 
I call shenanigans.

The camera ring on the iPhone nano is scaled down as well, in the same proportions as the rest of this photoshop exercise.

Physically it makes no sense to do this.
 
no way will this happen.

bring out the 3rd gen iphone! video recording, 2nd camera on front for ichat, thinner, stereo speakers 10 times louder, more storage, better battery, and snapier!

and how about this. One more button on the side for instant voice commands. even let it launch 3rd party apps by first stating the app you want. or if it just hears music lauches shazzam.

forget trying to figure out how to make the phone worse.
 
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