Mac News: Will We Finally See The iPhone Nano?
The tech stories sphere was set alight earlier on this week after rumours surfaced from the business paper, Bloomberg BusinessWeek that Apple may be working on creating an iPhone ‘nano ‘ in an effort to capture the profitable budget mobile phone sector. The paper claims that after a number of years of conjecture, Apple is still working on a low budget version of its flagship client gizmo.
A source from the publication stated its source came from ‘people who had been briefed on the plans ‘ and that 1 other source had seen a working prototype that was at least a 3rd smaller compared to the existing iPhone four and uses existing parts from the present generation to chop on production costs whilst the more dear premium parts are held back for its yet to be launched iPhone five.
Further interest into the ‘nano ‘ iPhone was raised after the WSJ backed up the previous allegations of a budget offering being lined up from Apple. Also rumoured was a redevelop of its MobileMe service due to flagging sales and low subscription numbers, with a likelihood of exclaiming the service will be free to iPhone users and should be modified from a synchronised offering of mail, contacts and calendar to a digital content platform where users could back information up to. It may also include the long rumoured streaming service for iTunes after Apple’s acquisition of the streaming based website Lala.
Sadly this revelation, whilst backed up by ‘sources ‘ can’t be taken as an assurance, as across the iPhone’s history there have been constant rumours of a smaller budget model mobile phone offering from Apple across the years.
The rumoured sources also leaked info that Apple might intend to make the forthcoming iPhone five a ‘world telephone ‘ by including GSM and CDMA technology, as it had to launch a CDMA iPhone four variation in its home market to delight American customers. A teardown of the CDMA device found that the technologies and hardware were in place for a ‘world phone ‘ version, but the lack of a SIM card slot was the only thing from stopping the company from launching it, preferring to release two separate devices.The iPhone ‘Nano ‘ will also have competition from the recently released, and formerly Palm, HP Veer smartphone.
Launched at the start of Feb, the Veer is an evolution of Palm’s Pre line of telephones, with models being offered in tiny, medium, and huge sizes. The Veer being the littlest, the Pre3 being the medium sized device and a new web OS powered tablet, the TouchPad, completing the big offering.Only time shall tell whether these rumours turn out to be true as having a budget device in a manufacture’s line up can turn out to be a killer option as seen with HTC’s Wildfire handset which provides premium looks at an inexpensive price.
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