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Vaja Also Hints at iPhone Nano?

As I posted in another thread, it is possible that these are the actual dimensions of the product. Thai and Chinese suppliers are notorious for leaking specs for products weeks or months before they go into production.

This also lines up with all of the case manufacturers, including some extremely reputable ones leaking information on a new case for the Nano.

It seems increasingly likely that this will be announced at Macworld, even if the phone itself doesn't ship for a month or two afterwards.

It also makes sense from a timing perspective so that Apple gets maximum media exposure from the launch of an entirely new class of phone, as well as the renewed exposure later in the summer when the 3G is inevitably refreshed. Apple really seems to be out to take share right now.

While I certainly won't try to guarantee that the iphone nano is coming, signs are increasingly pointing to it.

Good times for sure when all of the people who have been screaming at the top of their lungs that Apple would never do such a thing get proven flat out wrong
 
Proximity Sensors

Remember this patent?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10114351-1.html

A small virtual keyboard could mimic the dock's magnification technique in OS X, using proximity sensors to enlarge the portion of the keyboard your finger hovers over just like the dock can magnify icons you hover over with your mouse. The patent is described as being for displays larger than that of the iPhone, but some version of such a sensor array could really help in hitting the right key on a small display.

As for how to shrink the phone itself without shrinking screen size, I'm sure they could move the home button to an edge or side, like the volume rocker and power button, eliminating the big black area currently surrounding the home button. The ear speaker is also surrounded by black. This area would also be ripe for a drastic reduction in size.

If they simply scale down the entire phone, however, then I'll hope for an implementation of proximity sensors as described above or an automatic switch to landscape for typing.
 
Yes, I have seen it with my own eyes, I swear!
It is 1nm x 0.8 nm x 0.01nm.
They will sell it in bundle with a 2ton electronic microscope to read it.
 
MacRumors said:
Meanwhile, iPhone Nano knock-offs are already been spotted circulating in Thailand and Spain.
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Cal me crazy, but since at this time the iPhone Nano has not been released, and if you asked Apple would be told it does not even exist, it wouldn't be correct to call these devices "iPhone Nano knockoffs", since they aren't copies of any actual shipped or even announced product. If anything, they can only be called products that are copying ideas and concepts of Apple's full size iPhone, and putting it into a smaller package.

If Apple does in fact release an iPhone, it would only be fair to say that they are the ones selling the "knock off". :D

After all, nobody ever said Watson was a knock off of Sherlock 3.
 
mschmitt said:
A small virtual keyboard could mimic the dock's magnification technique in OS X, using proximity sensors to enlarge the portion of the keyboard your finger hovers over just like the dock can magnify icons you hover over with your mouse
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This would be very fussy and slow to use. Old school numeric pad predictive text would be much faster in comparison. Speed in typing comes from knowing where the keys are so that you can just automatically move your fingers without thinking. Anytime you have to hunt, it will be frustratingly slow.

There is no way Apple will introduce a new platform (the so-called second apps store), at least not while the original iphone platform is still being established. So a smaller screen must support the same portrait keyboard. Higher dpi screens exist, but can the user experience be usable. I simply can't imagine it.

A slimmed down iPhone with top and bottom trimmed, side edges flush with the side of the screen (none of this bevel indulgence), even thinner (of course), maybe less capacity (4GB?) That's about the best hope for a fully functional smart phone iPhone nano. Apple will never go back to non-3G. wifi is possible to drop (hey does anyone remember firewire on mac, that's so yesterday :) ) Since a nano would be a big seller, it would have to have GPS otherwise the app store vendors will revolt. Again, apple cannot go backwards on the iPhone platform.

The non-smart phone seems more plausable to differentiate the products and justify the "nano" designation, although as I mentioned before, it's not really an "iPhone" as customers have come to expect. The varieties are endless as proposed here. Clickwheel, keypad, touch, non touch, iphone s/w based, new s/w base etc etc. No apps store.
 
Mark my words, if they scrap any internet/data functions and keep it simply as an eloquent, high quality phone, it will sell like hotcakes.

Me and virtually everyone I know wants this - we don't need the internet/GPS everywhere we go, and we certainly don't need the dozens of useless apps - or feel compelled to pay 30 bucks a month for the aforementioned.

If the price is competitive, the IPhone Nano will make a fortune.....
 
Not buying it...

I bought cases from Vaja a few years back. Very nice, durable, super padded... and made to order. In other words, they could still deliver on time having no foreknowledge of a product. My suspicion is they watch what the other case manufacturers are offering and do the same. In short, I'd call this "lead" a weak one. Did anyone at MacRumors call Vaja?

Having said that, and thinking this rumor is probably bunk, if Apple shaved some of the black area off the top and bottom of the device they might be able to call it a nano. But seriously, have ever heard anyone complaining the iPhone is too large? Maybe thinner, but any change that reduces the size of the keyboard, screen, fonts or icons would make it unusable IMO.
 
I still don't believe it. But my guess would be a slimmer, same screen size, less memory, without wifi or bluetooth and also without gps
 
H. Flower said:
Mark my words, if they scrap any internet/data functions and keep it simply as an eloquent, high quality phone, it will sell like hotcakes.

Me and virtually everyone I know wants this - we don't need the internet/GPS everywhere we go, and we certainly don't need the dozens of useless apps - or feel compelled to pay 30 bucks a month for the aforementioned.

If the price is competitive, the IPhone Nano will make a fortune.....
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Yes. Who says the iPhone nano will just be a scaled down 3g? This is Apple.
 
jmpage2 said:
The Vaja thing is a big deal. They make upscale cases and have been in business for a really long time. It would be surprising if they put this info on their website and there is no corresponding Apple product releasing.

I'm just waiting for confirmation now so I can have a good laugh at the many posers who have been booming "there will be no iphone nano" in an authoritative (but pib squeaky) voice.
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I definitely agree. Vaja is the real deal and is very expensive. I highly doubt a company like them would put a product on their website that won't even exist.

And I cannot wait to laugh at the doubters too. Because its at least 65-70% doubters on this website.
 
fobfob said:
This would be very fussy and slow to use. Old school numeric pad predictive text would be much faster in comparison. Speed in typing comes from knowing where the keys are so that you can just automatically move your fingers without thinking. Anytime you have to hunt, it will be frustratingly slow.
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I'm sure they'd allow you to adjust the magnification or turn it off completely. It's not much of an issue for me, except in portrait mode. I have to be a bit more careful about hitting adjacent keys in portrait mode, and I wonder why you can't switch from portrait to landscape or vice versa once the keyboard is open.

At any rate, the patent refers to displays larger than that of the iPhone, so such technology would likely require more space.

By the way, touch typing (typing without looking) doesn't work on flat glass. Yes, we know where the keys should be relative to each other, but we still need to look at them. Speed in typing or keyboarding comes from using all fingers, properly placed above the keyboard, none of which applies to a small virtual keyboard.
 
Im afraid i just cant see any sense in bringing out the iphone nano - for a start its as ugly as hell. Plus i read on here a while back one user pointing out that browsing the internet would be horrible due to the small size of the screen. Creating an unenjoyable user experience is pretty much the complete opposite to the attitude Apple adopts in developing new products.

Plus, looking at the pictures supplies by the op you can see that the film over the screen, supposedly to show it is new(?) is completely different to that used by Apple. Hate to bring you down from your crashing high but there is no way these pictures are of genuine apple products
 
nfl46 said:
I definitely agree. Vaja is the real deal and is very expensive. I highly doubt a company like them would put a product on their website that won't even exist.

And I cannot wait to laugh at the doubters too. Because its at least 65-70% doubters on this website.
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And I will laugh at the people thinking it will be affordable. People never learn. I also predict that the quality of the screen of a possible iPhone nano will suck.
 
henchosbandito said:
Im afraid i just cant see any sense in bringing out the iphone nano - for a start its as ugly as hell.
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The iPhone nano is not something that in anyway appeals to me, but Apple is aiming this at the great unwashed.......they will sell bundles of them. Thats all they care about. I'd personally hate to own one.

Vaja must know something and I doubt that they would have this on their website if it's all ******** -

http://www.vajacases.com/images/mobile/apple/iphone_nano/form_en.html
 
OrangeDog said:
The iPhone nano is not something that in anyway appeals to me, but Apple is aiming this at the great unwashed.......they will sell bundles of them. Thats all they care about. I'd personally hate to own one.
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I posted in another thread that the experience on the current iPhone is like perfect in terms of size. Any bigger and it's too bulky and gets into netbook territory; any smaller and I wouldn't want to use it. The keyboard is hard enough to send e-mails on (TouchType has been an awesome app though--landscape typing for e-mails is a Godsend).

BUT this is what I don't get: if they sell an iPhone nano for $99 do they even make money (or enough to make it worth while?). Just because it's smaller doesn't mean it's cheaper to make! The touch screen technology has to be the same, sound chip, processor, glass etc. ...it's just smaller!?

When the iPod nano came out vs. the Classic it wasn't much cheaper--wasn't the original Nano 4GB like $250 vs. $300 for the cheapest classic? Part of that was the cost of flash memory at the time, but even still, they shared a lot of the same technology; it was not that much cheaper to make it than the Classic?

If they use a 4gb chip vs 8gb are they saving that much money to make it worthwhile? And then I have to ask another business decision question: why now? The Touch and iPhone are selling like crazy right now--adding Wal-Mart is going to increase that and time is only help right now as people are coming off contracts with other carriers and choosing not to re-up but to switch to AT&T. I've had probably 15 friends in the past 3 months that have switched to AT&T for iPhones when their current plans ended. It's a cash cow they should be riding right?
 
H. Flower said:
Mark my words, if they scrap any internet/data functions and keep it simply as an eloquent, high quality phone, it will sell like hotcakes.

Me and virtually everyone I know wants this - we don't need the internet/GPS everywhere we go, and we certainly don't need the dozens of useless apps - or feel compelled to pay 30 bucks a month for the aforementioned.

If the price is competitive, the IPhone Nano will make a fortune.....
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+1

Saludos
 
Why couldn't the nano be the smaller and more exclusive and expensive version of the iPhone? Don't see why everone expects it to be cheaper. See the Nokia 8xxx series or something similar.

I haven't bought the iPhone just for the reason it's too big for my pocket. I love it tho, lots of my friends have it and its awesome but i just wouldn't want one so big i'd need to carry a bag with me to put it somewhere.

And i thought of the nano version as soon as the first phone was announced, the ipods have the nano version and i doubt that apple couldn't make a smaller version work as well as the larger one.

And well since i mostly use my phone mostly for "calling" (maybe some of you remember the feature where you can speak to some other person and he hears you on his phone) i wouldn't mind if it has a few features less.

Using a Nokia 8800 sirocco atm, hasnt broken up on me and gets its job done, waiting for the nano now :)
 
After all of these rumors I do think an iPhone Nano is coming, but I do not think it will be announced at Macworld. As Jobs' has stated, the iPhone is "near and dear to his heart." I doubt Shiller would be the one to introduce it, but you never know. Also, based on most of the other rumors, Macworld seems like it is going to be Mac-centric.
 
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