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iPhone Nano - For Real?
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Hi there,
think about the possibilities of this rotary-dial click wheel patent ...
Texting: 0-9 and the # and stuff displayed on the wheel, then in handy-fashion one click to the number and *blink* the click wheel changes: on the wheel around the current "button" the corresponding letters (Nokia SMS-style). A second click (another - including the initial a double - click) on the number then inserts the number, one click to the letter-list around the number inserts the letter.
Let the letters be one side and the punctation signs etc. opposing ...
Could realy be fast once you get used to it ...
Cheers!
P.S.: I love my Treo keyboard
Hi there,
think about the possibilities of this rotary-dial click wheel patent ...
Texting: 0-9 and the # and stuff displayed on the wheel, then in handy-fashion one click to the number and *blink* the click wheel changes: on the wheel around the current "button" the corresponding letters (Nokia SMS-style). A second click (another - including the initial a double - click) on the number then inserts the number, one click to the letter-list around the number inserts the letter.
Let the letters be one side and the punctation signs etc. opposing ...
Could realy be fast once you get used to it ...
Cheers!
P.S.: I love my Treo keyboard
A smaller, reduced feature iPhone makes sense in markets such as Canada where data plans are prohibitively expensive. Simple as that.
Rotary dialing sounds terrible!
This would be a huge step backwards. I'm in favour of a slide iPhone nano. Wheel + Screen with a sliding key pad underneath:
Only with a wheel obviously.
edit: here you go, not to scale but you get the idea, this would be a great design.
You don't always have to go for the revolutionary, simply improve an existing hardware design and tie it to great phone/ipod OS. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
The D900 is actually a really nice phone in of itself, 3MP camera too...
Since the vast majority of phone sales are non-smart phones this is the market to go after, Apple could easily snag 10% of the market within 2 years. Get moving!
This would be a huge step backwards. I'm in favour of a slide iPhone nano. Wheel + Screen with a sliding key pad underneath:
Only with a wheel obviously.
edit: here you go, not to scale but you get the idea, this would be a great design.
You don't always have to go for the revolutionary, simply improve an existing hardware design and tie it to great phone/ipod OS. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
The D900 is actually a really nice phone in of itself, 3MP camera too...
Since the vast majority of phone sales are non-smart phones this is the market to go after, Apple could easily snag 10% of the market within 2 years. Get moving!
And a second thought
Why shouldn't
be the first company to present a perfect, easy and simply "just-a-phone" to the market? My Grandma could never use a normal cellphone, just too small, complicated and *spooky* It's all about interface-design ...
My parents would need one ...
Cheers!
Why shouldn't
be the first company to present a perfect, easy and simply "just-a-phone" to the market? My Grandma could never use a normal cellphone, just too small, complicated and *spooky* It's all about interface-design ...My parents would need one ...
Cheers!
i'd buy this if its touchscreen keyboard accepts stylus input device, otherwise i don't see how you can type on such a small screen with your finger.
I would find this hard to believe, I do think that a phone / iPod combo would require a lot of the same hardware, so the cost is going to be close, they can lower the price further by just making less per phone and instead go with the volume of sales. However such limited capability just not as cool and not as obvious allready exist. There are a lot of phones that can play music. I do not believe that it would be as marketable and desirable as people think.
IMHO makes more sense to create a better iPhone with all the desire attributes like 3G capability, video recording, camera in the front, video iChat, and a GPS and sell it for the same as the current iPhone. Then sell the current iPhone for 150 to 200 less and make that the iPhone for the masses.
This way Apple can get mass sales of both the upper and lower markets.
IMHO a crippled iPhone won't sell well and if it did it would seriously hurt iPod sales.
IMHO makes more sense to create a better iPhone with all the desire attributes like 3G capability, video recording, camera in the front, video iChat, and a GPS and sell it for the same as the current iPhone. Then sell the current iPhone for 150 to 200 less and make that the iPhone for the masses.
This way Apple can get mass sales of both the upper and lower markets.
IMHO a crippled iPhone won't sell well and if it did it would seriously hurt iPod sales.
I have a feeling the clickwheel will not be added to any iPhone family product. In fact, we might not see it on any new iPods, either. Apple has a lot invested in Multitouch. More than they have revealed so far, I think.
Well that is good, however how you do multitouch on a screen the size of a stamp? Use 2 toothpicks to do the pinch?
I do not see it, but then again im going blind, so you maybe right.
It would be more popular if they adapted a different iPod with phone capabilities and using voice controls instead of the big screen. See model here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4648486036015499267
I would only assume that AT&T would lock up any handset made by Apple, Inc. but who knows.
i think a full touch screen with a slide out keyboard, then type in landscape (ala sidekick almost) would be very cool.
Apple should also (think about this) figure out a way for two phone to be registered to the same sim/account. IE i want my iPhone when going out or to the office, but iPhoneNano for working out or running. No sense in not exploring the idea of letting people buy and use both your phones.
Much as the basic concept appeals to me I just can't see it happening
1. Too close to the iPhone launch which has hardly even started in the rest of the world.
2. It will certainly affect sales of the iPhone.
3.There is no way it is coming in the next few months if the reason for the pre launch of the original phone was true. ie....the FCC testing requirements and the chances of a leak.
Plus I just hope Apple can get back to doing some computer stuff before spending their resources on another consumer electronics product.
1. Too close to the iPhone launch which has hardly even started in the rest of the world.
2. It will certainly affect sales of the iPhone.
3.There is no way it is coming in the next few months if the reason for the pre launch of the original phone was true. ie....the FCC testing requirements and the chances of a leak.
Plus I just hope Apple can get back to doing some computer stuff before spending their resources on another consumer electronics product.
Since the iPhone works on a GMS network and uses a SIM card it would be very easy to use both phones on the same account. All you would have to do is put the SIM card in the phone you want to use at the time. Nothing for Apple to figure out. I have already done this with my old phone. I went to the beach and didn't want to bring my iPhone, so I took my old phone and put the SIM card from my iPhone in it.
I have an iPhone, but this is great news for Apple. Hmmm, will the temptation be too great for me to resist a second iPhone?
Oh, then he should've said "crippled iPhone Nano" to distinguish it from the crippled iPhone then.
Rotary dialing sounds terrible!
This would be a huge step backwards. I'm in favour of a slide iPhone nano. Wheel + Screen with a sliding key pad underneath:
Only with a wheel obviously.
The D900 is actually quite a nice phone in of itself. It would probably if apple could equal the design quality of this phone and beat it with a better interface and OS they'd have an instant winner.
My girlfriend actually just got that phone. It's not bad, the interface is clear and looks pretty.a slider phone could work indeed. But aren't buttons old school for Apple? Look at the mighty mouse...
I bought a black 2G nano. I could have bought the regular 5.5G 30GB video iPod for the same price. Why did I take the nano? It's nice and small, less fragile, less heavy. Always have it on me.
The iPhone is kinda big. Too big for some peopl and definitely not something for the purse. There wil evetually be a small Apple phone, maybe a different name tho. Nanophone or something...
The iPhone is kinda big. Too big for some peopl and definitely not something for the purse. There wil evetually be a small Apple phone, maybe a different name tho. Nanophone or something...
