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[Merged] "iPhone nano" Launched for Christmas 2008 Season?

I love this.

How does everyone know or not know what apple is going to do. This is Apple we're talking about. A company that drops the price of its flagship product in 3 months.

Analysts have been saying for months that apple has the buzz, press, and name value in the cellular market currently unmatched by anyone else. The sheer speed in which it got to this point is remarkable.

I wouldn't count out a 2nd iPhone model, nano, or whatever. Remember, a lot of people weren't expecting a 2nd, smaller 'mini' iPod. :)
 
here comes the big push

whether it is for the iPhone nano or a new iTouch, we are going to start seeing new devices that will only be fully feature enabled with a Mobile Me account. I think Apple will try to get the most out of their revamped web stuff.
 
I believe this new phone will not have a touch screen, apple wants to make cheap phone not an Iphone alternative imho

expect a nano with a slide keypad
expect the same interface the nano has now but with just phone features added.

the whole idea is to bring the nano into a cheap phone
 
ventro said:
I could see Apple releasing a thin, small phone with no app store or any advanced "smart phone" features - just an iPod + phone in a really tiny enclosure.
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I second.

Not every device needs a freakin' touchscreen and net access. The nano concept could very well morph into a phone/mp3 player in a sexy, *small* enclosure. It would certainly have mass appeal.
 
The screen would be so small, if you were browsing the internet, you wouldn't even be able to see anything!!!

As it is, the current iPhone is literally at the limit of how small a screen can be and still browse the internet without it being so annoying it was frustrating.
 
cal6n said:
Translation: This newspaper lies to its readership as a matter of editorial policy. Anything in its pages should be treated with the utmost suspicion.
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Agreed. The Daily Mail and The Sunday Mail aren't just bad newspapers, which are sometimes a little off base. They are horrendous newspapers which do anything to twist a story into the most sensationalist thing ever in order to keep their sales at the shocking height they have achieved, with no consideration for whether the facts are true.

They also have a very right-wing agenda, and spew forth a vitriolic and hate-filled ideology on a daily basis. Reading their paper is like drinking poison and I'd recommend people stay away to avoid contamination.

As to this rumour - gosh, well I think a smaller iPhone will be released AT SOME POINT. I also think a Pay-As-You-Go iPhone will be released AT SOME POINT. Do I think the Mail / Mail on Sunday have found a reliable source who are breaking this rumour correctly? No. It's just typical Daily Mail bollocks, something random to fill up page inches and keep the melonheads who read the Mail thinking that their 'journalists' have a clue.

And if I'm wrong, I'll eat this post.
 
Ironduke said:
I believe this new phone will not have a touch screen, apple wants to make cheap phone not an Iphone alternative imho

expect a nano with a slide keypad
expect the same interface the nano has now but with just phone features added.

the whole idea is to bring the nano into a cheap phone
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Even I believe this. Well..... for starters.... I dont find any touch screen on iPod nano and firmly believe we wont see one for at-least 3-5 years. And.... since nano automatically implies small... how hard will it be to type/drag/tap/swipe on a 2 - 2.5 inch touchscreen!
 
dccorona said:
if they do it better be worse than a normal iPhone. i have to have the best device, and dont want to get screwed
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You can't compete with a company like Apple. They'll always bring out something new... It's just the way it is.
 
phakebrill said:
You can't compete with a company like Apple. They'll always bring out something new... It's just the way it is.
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Agreed. Eg: The fatty nano! Everyone thought they were horrible but they turned out to be the best ones ever (at least for me)
 
real or not.. you have to remmember the Daily Mail is a tabloid rag, happy to go completely over the top on reports of video games making children axe each other, and constantly harping on about why Diana was killed/murdered. Its a **** paper which gets most of it's "news" from rumour sites on the internet padded up by free flowing ******** vomiting staff. If there is every a paper to make a mountain out of a mole hill it is this paper.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if this came from someone innocently saying "hey.. that new iphone is a bit thinner than the old one isn't it?" or something like that.
 
Nano the Mac Pro

I want to buy a real affordable phone made by apple. The iphone 3G wasn't as affordable as Steve Jobs said because the plans are all so expensive.

I will buy an iphone nano if the plan that comes with it is cheaper. I don't need all those emailing or whatever 3G function. I just need an iphone that can do texting, play musics, and fit in my pocket (although bluetooth stereo would be nice~)

Also, I think Apple should be "nanoing" the Mac Pro before anything else. I always wanted to purchase a Mac Pro, but I found it too bulky comparing with other PCs. I'm using the first generation Macbook Pro, and am planning on buying a Mac Pro...but it's really too huge. On the other hand, I want to buy an Apple display along with the Mac Pro, but the displays that Apple is offering haven't been updated for a long, long time...

Steve, thank you for bringing us new phones, but please don't forget your Macs.
 
Remember the iPod Touch and the iPhone are somewhat in competition with each other.

Each iPod Touch is potentially a sale the phone will never make.

It would make sense to release a pay as you go cut-down iPhone, because there's a market ready to be tapped in to. It's perfectly feasable to have a phone the size of the iPod nano, with a small touch screen which is fully functional. You'd lose wifi, apps, GPS etc. but it would be a good product.

The problem is that it would start to make the iPod Nano's £99 price too steep for a device without a touchscreen. It would have to lower in price.

There would be no point in having an iPod Nano Touch, so I think we'd just have the existing iPod Nano.

So, perhaps we'll see

• iPod Shuffle £40
• iPod Nano £79
• iPhone Nano £150 (touch screen, no apps, no GPS, 2mp camera, 2 or 4 gigabyte)
• iPod Classic
• iPod Touch
• iPhone
 
Would be a good move to capture the lowend market, basically a iPod nano with GSM. No apps and no internet but a basic phone with iPod functionality to compete directly against the Sony Walkman GSM.

Apple would sell millions and they don't compete with the big iPhone so i don't see why this is a bad move. I want a bigger screen iPod tablet but a cheap small iPhone as an extra would be nice. :)
 

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There are a lot of dense posts on here. I really don't think a lot of posters are getting the point of any such device (if I were Steve Jobs):

It's not going after the iPhone market. The people who want an iPod with a phone, internet, e-mail, maps, gps, yada yada yada are going to buy an iPhone. We're talking about the smartphone market.

An "iPhone Nano" device would be something to compete with those 10,000 cheap-ass cell phones that are pretty much given away with a 2-year contract. I know this market because it is my parents, uncles, aunts...about everybody I know who has a plain cell phone. They're extremely difficult to use for many of these people, and it's a HUGE market that Apple could tackle.

I see two methods of doing this. The first is basically an iPod Touch that can make phone calls. It would have Safari, Mail, iPod, apps, etc., but there would be no cellular data functions. I don't know how this would physically be done in contrast to the iPhone, but it could obviously be way cheaper. If AT&T is paying a $300-400 subsidy on the iPhone, they could obviously do something similar on a device very similar to the first-gen iPhone.

The other option is a slightly smaller device. If it had the same aspect ratio, apps may still work on it. The firmware could scale them down or something. Put just the basics on there and you've got a smaller iPhone.

So before people keep on yammering about how it would be a dumb product, THE TARGET MARKET WOULD MOST LIKELY NOT BE A SINGLE PERSON ON THIS FORUM.
 
Hmm, give me an shrunk down iPhone without Safari (because of the smaller display) and they might have me. Especially if it's £150 on PAYG.
 
Apple could just remove the following features from the iPhone 3G:
  • all the wireless options (except for Wi-Fi)
  • the GPS
  • Bluetooth
  • camera
and make it thinner and kill the iPod Touch. Use the same firmware as the iPhone 3G and keep the App Store. Sell it only in 8GB with Pay&Go, unlocked worldwide and bam! There's your iPhone nano.

Christmas? Meh.
Preview on Macworld? Bingo.
 
I recall a couple of months before the launch of the iPhone that there was a widely interesting (and unlikely) "3 different iPods" rumor, being a full touch screen iPod, an iPod Phone, and an internet tablet. The rest is history.

My take on this iPhone nano rumor is that we're going to see an iTablet, considering we're hearing similar reports of a touch screen nano and a mini/different version of the iPhone. They put an iSight camera on the iTablet and you essentially have just that all together, minus it being smaller. But hell, for the coolness, it's worth being a little bigger than an iPhone.
 
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