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Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based iPhone
bigkahunafish writes "It seems Apple is planning a cheaper version of the iPhone possibly based on the iPod Nano. This phone would be priced below $300 making it more affordable than the $500-600 iPhone. This should bring Apple phone technology into the hands of more users, though this cheaper phone could have more limited functionality. From the article: 'Sales of the [original] iPhone are expected to be limited to a small percentage of the market due to its high price tag, particularly in the United States where 85 percent of consumers tend to spend $100 or less on cell phones. But analysts forecast that a cheaper phone from Apple, which leads the digital music player market, could pose a much bigger threat to long-established phone makers such as Nokia, Motorola Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Sony Ericsson, owned by Sony Corp and Ericsson.' I just hope they don't make a phone based on the iPod Shuffle."
It's the package..
Strike 1) Apple makes it
Strike 2) Price
Strike 3) Cingular/ATT only
Strike 4) Soldered in battery
Strike 5) Security issues
All in all, it really never had a chance to live...
(there, as it should have been originally)
Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
My biggest complaints are that I cannot simply send an image to my machine without using iPhoto, or access files for storage and such particularly over Bluetooth. Not being able to use it as a modem is pretty crappy as well!
That aside, it is a cool phone. Although I would not have purchased an iPod as a separate product, having one is not bad. But again, I purchased an iPod Shuffle instead of a flash drive, and am sort of bothered that I cannot use a $500 product to do the job of a $25 flash drive.
GPS would have been nice as well...
The Blackberry 8830 works with RSA SecurID, Google Maps, Google Talk, and Opera Mini. I can push my Gmail account to my Blackberry via the POP3 support. It's really awesome. And I'm not buying the software, so why do I care?
And all this functionality IS UNAVAILABLE ON THE IPHONE, YOU APPLEFANBOI!
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