So the jesusPhone is to be made into a holy iTrinity of godPhone, jesusPhone and holyghostPhone.

Praise be!

The assumption that there will never be an iphone nano simply because the size of screen does not permit current iphone apps to run has two flaws:

Firstly, it assumes that such a device would be geared to download and run apps in the first place. There is room for a device that would just provide phone and ipod capabilities, perhaps with a small subset of built-in apps. This would make a smaller, less powerful device reliable and cheaper with less support overhead for Apple or networks.

Secondly, the current iphones started out with few or no iPhone apps. Perhaps a seperate apps store for a Nano would work, developers being approached to port existing apps?

However, this all assumes that this article, like many other rumours is accurate. After all, the much rumoured iMac and Mac Mini refreshes have yet to materialise - and lord knows, they need one, or I for one will be looking elsewhere for over-priced, under powered desktops....

If we look at the past history of analysts on MacRumors: http://guides.macrumors.com/Category:Analysts - we can conclude that most of them talk out of their collective rears. So three iPhones? Pure speculation, and about as much substance as whipped cream from a can.

As for a trifecta, I presume the intention is the analysts betting on the prediction...

I seem to remember all the hacks being taken-in by this kind of guff before.

Maybe a "I'll believe it when I see it" approach should be adopted here?

Paris, because she isn't interested in small ones anyway

I agree with Anonymous Coward, it's unlikely to have a nano or smaller unless the physical resolution can be retained.

This is because XCode restricts a lot of the App Development to the current iPhone interface, which ius 320x480px

However there is nothing specific in the Human Interface Guidelines or Programmer Guides that prohibit Apple from allowing new dimensions