Phone Media: Brand new iPhone ‘Nano’ On the Horizon?
The technology news sphere was set alight earlier on this week following rumours surfaced from the business paper, Bloomberg BusinessWeek that Apple might be working on creating an iPhone ‘nano’ in an attempt to capture the lucrative budget mobile phone sector. The paper claims that following years of speculation, Apple is nonetheless working on a budget version of its flagship consumer device.
A source from the publication stated its source came from ‘people who had been briefed on the plans’ and that a minimum of 1 other source had seen 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 elements are held back for its however to be launched iPhone 5.
Further interest into the ‘nano’ iPhone was raised following the Wall Street Journal backed up the prior claims of a budget offering being lined up from Apple. Also rumoured was a revamp of its MobileMe service because of flagging sales and low subscription numbers, with a chance of announcing that the service will probably be totally free to iPhone users and will be changed from a synchronised providing of mail, contacts and calendar to a digital content platform where users could back information up to. It could also include the long rumoured streaming service for iTunes after Apple’s acquisition of the streaming based web site Lala.
Sadly this news, whilst backed up by ‘sources’ can’t be taken as confirmation, as all through the iPhone’s background there have been constant rumours of a smaller spending budget model mobile phone providing from Apple throughout the years.
The rumoured sources also leaked information that Apple might intend to make the forthcoming iPhone five a ‘world phone’ by including GSM and CDMA technology, as it had to launch a CDMA iPhone four variant in its home marketplace to please American customers. A teardown of the CDMA device discovered that the technologies and hardware had been 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 gadgets.
The iPhone ‘Nano’ will also have competition from the newly introduced, and formerly Palm, HP Veer smartphone. Launched at the starting of February, the Veer is an evolution of Palm’s Pre line of phones, with models being provided in little, medium, and large sizes. The Veer becoming the smallest, the Pre3 being the medium sized device and a new web OS powered tablet, the TouchPad, completing the large offering.
Only time shall tell whether these rumours prove to be accurate as having a spending budget device in a manufacture’s line up can prove to be a killer option as seen with HTC’s Wildfire handset which provides premium looks at an inexpensive price.
It would permit networks to provide the phone on competitively priced pay as you go programs that cater to the consumer’s needs.
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