Telephone News: New iPhone ‘Nano’ On the Horizon?
The tech news sphere was set alight earlier on this week after rumours surfaced from the business paper, Bloomberg BusinessWeek that Apple could be operating on creating an iPhone ‘nano’ in an attempt to capture the lucrative spending budget mobile telephone sector. The paper claims that following years of speculation, Apple is still working on a spending budget version of its flagship consumer device.
A supply from the publication stated its supply came from ‘people who had been briefed on the plans’ and that at least one other supply had observed a working prototype that was at least a third smaller than the present iPhone four and makes use of existing components from the current generation to cut on production costs whilst the more pricey premium components are held back for its yet to be launched iPhone 5.
Additional interest into the ‘nano’ iPhone was raised after the Wall Street Journal backed up the previous claims of a budget offering being lined up from Apple. Also rumoured was a revamp of its MobileMe service due to flagging sales and low subscription numbers, having a possibility of announcing that the service will probably be totally free to iPhone users and will be changed from a synchronised offering of mail, contacts and calendar to a digital content material platform where users could back data up to. It could also consist of the long rumoured streaming service for iTunes after Apple’s acquisition of the streaming based website Lala.
Unfortunately this news, whilst backed up by ‘sources’ cannot be taken as confirmation, as all through the iPhone’s history there have been continuous rumours of a smaller spending budget model mobile telephone providing from Apple throughout the years.
The rumoured sources also leaked info that Apple might intend to make the forthcoming iPhone 5 a ‘world phone’ by such as GSM and CDMA technology, as it had to launch a CDMA iPhone four variant in its house marketplace to please American customers. A teardown of the CDMA device discovered 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 business from launching it, preferring to release two different devices.
The iPhone ‘Nano’ will also have competition from the newly released, and formerly Palm, HP Veer smartphone. Launched in the starting of February, the Veer is an evolution of Palm’s Pre line of phones, with models becoming provided in small, medium, and large sizes. The Veer being the smallest, the Pre3 becoming the medium sized device along with a new internet OS powered tablet, the TouchPad, finishing the big offering.
Only time shall tell whether these rumours prove to be accurate as having a budget device inside a manufacture’s line up can prove to be a killer choice as observed with HTC’s Wildfire handset which provides premium looks at an inexpensive cost.
It would allow networks to provide the telephone on competitively priced pay as you go programs that cater towards the consumer’s requirements.
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