Apple dreaming of an iPhone nano for Christmas?

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Sunday, 03 August 2008 18:35

Your IT - Mobility

The UK’s Daily Mail is reporting that Apple will shortly launch the iPhone nano, and has quoted an expert with a curious idea that’s either brilliant... or stupid.

Hey, it’s iPhone rumour time again! Less than a month after the iPhone 3G launched, the rumourmongers are at it again, predicting that Apple will launch an iPhone nano in time for Christmas.

This newest rumour comes from the UK’s “Daily Mail” newspaper, which doesn’t necessarily lend the rumour any credibility whatsoever, although we do stand ready to be iSurprised.

The article quotes the usual “anonymous” industry expert predicting a cost of “up to £150” (that’s AUD $318 or USD $296) for pre-paid customers and specifically saying: “This will be a big one. The iPhone 3G has been the fastest-selling phone ever in the UK, but it is too expensive to be a realistic proposition in the pay-as-you-go market.”

The anonymous source added: “However, a cut down version, with the candy bar shape of iPod nano music players, would be a huge hit as a Christmas gift.”

While the idea of an iPhone nano was suggested not long after Apple announced it was making an iPhone in January 2007, the Daily Mail spoke to an “expert” who thinks Apple will once more “think different” by playing a “touch wheel on the back and display on the front so that numbers would be dialled from behind.”

A touch wheel on the back?! Why not have a car with a steering wheel in the back seat too, then? Perhaps laptops with keyboards on the back of the screen are in the mind’s eye of this expert too.

I suppose anything is possible, and after trying to do a circular clickwheel motion on the back of my iPhone and iPod, it could work...

Is it feasible? Please read on to page 2.