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Here Comes iPhone Nano, But Not In the US

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the rampant-speculation dept.

jehovajerieh writes to us in the time-honored tradition of rampant Apple speculation, pointing to an article over on IBTimes suggesting that while the iPhone Nano may be on the way, the US might not be the first to experience this gadget bliss. "Despite limited information in the supplier channels and typical secrecy with new Apple products, insiders have confirmed that the iPhone nano is not yet in the testing labs at AT&T, Marshal says, leading him to believe that the launch will most likely be with a non-US carrier. 'Obviously, the best-case scenario here would be a China launch (~600mil+ wireless subscribers total in the country), but we have no definitive knowledge of this and are working on identifying the [locale] of launch and other pertinent details,' he said."

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  1. Big Eyecatching Caption to attrract eyeballs by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Interesting
    TFA has absolutely nothing of substance. Looks like they're just trying to attract click revenue.

    If Apple did release the Nanophone elsewhere then it would be the first time they'd done a product launch that excluded USA.

    Of course it would not be surprising if competitors are pushing the concept to create demand which they can fill with a "me too" product. "Me too" that is, except that the original does not exist. Various Chinese companies make a bundle out of "me toos", so this strategy could appeal there.

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    1. Re:Big Eyecatching Caption to attrract eyeballs by TRRosen · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Actually Apple has released products that never sold in the US. Of course this was in the evil Performa times. PowerMac 8200, Black 5400,Color Classic II.

  2. Could be a legal shuffle, yes? by Lester67 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe the specific, full sized iPhone is the only product that that Apple is required to carry through AT&T for 5 years?

    Maybe the release of the iPhone Nano would open the door for another wireless vendor to handle that product.

    Just thinking out loud.

  3. Re:Hmm... by ivan256 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Alternate explaination: A US carrier other than AT&T. Perhaps T-Mobile.

  4. Re:Smaller? by mini+me · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Email can do everything MMS can. Clearly it is the phones that do MMS but not email that are broken.

  5. Re:Who cares? by joh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's no reason to assume that an iPhone nano will run *any* third-party apps at all. Think of it as an iPod nano with an integrated phone and it almost makes sense. There's no need for an sophisticated OS or third-party apps then. Just a small iPod with a phone, that's it. Nothing wrong with that idea either.

  6. Re:It's all about the API by kc8apf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interface Builder lets you choose to specify offsets from either side for both axes (top/bottom for Y and left/right for X). Further it lets you defined resize behaviors. The only apps that will be bitten by a change in screen dimensions are those from developers who didn't bother to learn what those controls do and assumed that the screen size will just never change.

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