- Apple planning lower-cost iPhone?
This has been buzzing around for a couple of weeks, but apparently the buzz is getting louder. AppleInsider is reporting that a second version of the iPhone will be ready for the holiday shopping season - and that this one will be cheaper and without such features as Internet browsing and e-mail. The device is being dubbed "an iPhone nano." From AppleInsider:
Like today's iPhone, the new model is expected to sport a revolutionary user interface, clues of which may have recently been revealed in a trio of patent filings. The filings published earlier this month detailed telephone and text entry interfaces for a cellular-capable device via a virtual rotary click-wheel. One in particular described segmenting a click-wheel's circular shape into various regions to enable quick phone dialing by sensing which region was touched.
The scuttlebutt is that unlike the original iPhone, this lower-rent version would be available through third-party retailers. Cnet's Tom Krazit wonders why Apple would introduce a new iPhone just months after spending all that effort on the original. Apple, of course, is not talking.
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