Rumour of redesigned iPhone

Expect the new carrier to be announced shortly

its Vodafone, happy now?

Yay!

Milk that sucker / those suckers for all it's / their worth!

Even SHE's not *that* gullible!

Gullible?

@dervheid: "Gullible" is reading a technology story in the Daily Mail, and assuming it's true. Or did your rabid desire to slag off iPhone users override your common sense?

This is clearly rubbish, a revised form factor wouldn't make any sense. Everything about the iPhone is built around a large touchscreen. Swapping this for a smaller screen and a "scroll wheel"...?! Personally, I very strongly doubt this will happen.

Someone at the Daily Mail has sat down and thought, "Hey, if Apple have released an iPhone... and there's already an iPod... and there's an iPod Nano... maybe there'll be an iPhone Nano! Let's print it, the 'kids' love iPods and this will make us look trendy. Can we invent an 'anonymous industry source' to add some gravitas?".

Re: Shocked and appalled of Tunbridge Wells

You think this is bad? I've been busy marketing this Christmas's pantomimes since February. Some venues even announce their next Christmas show before the current one has even arrived.

@ Chris Gibson

Dear Chris

Please reboot your irony / sarcasm detectors, as they have clearly malfunctioned.

Or are you just a (now out of the) closet iPhone fanboi?

ps. I believe your 'gravitas' sensor may require calibration also.

Jeebus ...

How many more f***ing iPhones do people WANT?

IT'S A PHONE! Not a way of LIFE!

And yes: it has only turned AUGUST.

Thanks for the laugh...

I mean, "enabling numbers to be dialed from behind"...?

"this is a great phone: wish I could dial numbers from behind though.

Perhaps the Daily Mail just like apple products cos they're white, eh?

Mine's the one you can dial from behind.

and...

they haven't started selling collectibles and/or special editions... yet...

Why?

Why would anyone go to the trouble of milking a product to death like this? The iPhone is a cash-cow for Apple- cheapening it with a piece of crap like is being suggested makes no sense. However it also makes absolutely no sense that the iPhone is being pushed at corporate customers when it doesn't have a keyboard and doesn't support video calling........ Even things like the Samsung F700v have these basic features........ Are we really technologically that far ahead of the Yanks, here and in Japan?

Or

Or is it because a number of plastic backed units are sporting cracked and flawed plastic casings and an odd one or two has gone a tad melty due a rapid discharge of it's battery cooking the cheap dupont plastic nicely ?

Choices from the Cupertino Pirates are those designed to empty the fans wallets and credit/debit cards whilst they raid the kids future college funds for the rest as well !

Oh to be blind , thick , gullible and stupid at the same time like the one in ten thousand wankers who continually fall for this stupidity every time !

Such is life , as for Ifoney bargains Nelson has the answer for this in following two words "Ha ! Ha! " !

Well obligatory smutty innuendo...

Apple users like doing it from behind.....

Predictive specs

The iPhone nano will have a rather predictable spec:

• Smaller size

• larger touch screen

• Longer battery life

• 160GB storage

• Fold-out sqwerty keypad

• touch-wheel

• Hexaband frequencies (SMUTS, JIMJAMS, HEDGE, Jsus, GPERS, JSM)

• 12.3 megapixel camera (with 380WS flash)

• HD video recording

• Dolby 5.1 audio

• DVB TV & DAB radio

• Available in red, yellow, pink, green, orange, purple and blue

• No cut & paste

The price will be $49, which at current exchange rates will be £49

So

With it being a Nano iPhone, apart from not being able to do MMS messages it'll probably not even do SMS!

Paris cos she likes to be dialled from behind.

@ Shocked and appalled of Tunbridge Wells

Too late!

Here in Australia the first Easter Eggs for 2009 (!) were spotted on the weekend at Coles Supermarket, Katoomba, NSW. Yep. Easter, 2009. Buy early for Christmas 2010! BUY! BUY! BUY! CONSUME!

Isn't that one of the signs of the imminent return of Gozer?

Easy to predict

It was always going to happen... Not everyone wants the iPhone feature set/price as they are now, but every "cool" school kid wants to say they have one.

Now, as for the design:

To get an iPod Touch, they took the phone parts out of the iPhone.

To get the iPhone Nano, I predict they'll simply use what they have spare from all the iPod Touches they've sold :P

Jobsy, give us something original...

you cheap sensation-mongering bastard!

What did the Romans give us? Roads, clean water, sewers, concrete....

And what did Steve Jobs give us? A few expensive plastic toys and some eye-candy so-called operating system or two. So some trendy overpaid musicians (so-called) and graphic designers (so-called) and scientists (so-called) and kids (so-called) like their stuff - well, they fucking would wouldn't they.

Solid command-line industry standard no-nonsense DOS on an IBM foundation - that's the way to go!!

And then elbowing into the serious mobile entertainment sector with a bloody do-nothing crowd-pleaser that spawned a whole fucking me-too stampede by PR-driven rivals who should have known better.

And then this fucking iPhone (so-called) bleeding cheek - Motorola and Ericsson not good enough for you, eh! Stuck-up pink satin shirted bastards...

You'd never see Dixon of Dock Green swallowing this toxic plastic confectionary candy-floss.

Next thing you know there'll be colour television, sliced bread and electrical gadgets to toast it with...

Paris cos she understands the age-old wisdom of real utility, although she's not so solid when it comes to attractive packaging to lure the punters...

...and why not?

The iPhone (2G) is not going anywhere anymore, coz most people (who have the money) want a 3G phone. But loads people (I guess, in this now cash-strapped economy) could quite fancy a re-engineered iPhone Nano type product, which is basically a re-designed iPhone 2G.

OK - so maybe a slightly smaller display, smaller battery, but with pretty much the same "guts", just shrink-wrapped onto a smaller PCB and then wrapped into a smaller "package".

The 2G "technology" is proven, so there's plenty of life left in the old horse....like PH.....(or is she a bike - coz everybody's ridden her ??).

@Allexis

"The fact it's the size of a brick and weighs a ton. Not good in the pocket."

I just don't know where you get that...having owned 3 HTC smartphones, including the original Touch (the smallest), my iPhone 3G is without a doubt the best phone in the pocket I have ever had. It's THIN...thinner feeling even than the Touch, and the extra length isn't objectionable at all. As someone who carries my phone in my trousers pocket, all I can say is you really need to carry one for a bit before you comment - it is obvious you haven't. There ARE smaller phones, but none with a true smartphone feature set...

I would never buy an iPhone.

That cock on the Gadget Show loves them, that's good enough for me to NOT want one...

Industry source rumour of iPhone Pro

The world's fastest personal phone, running a phone-enabled version of Mac OSX Leopard on an 8 core call-processor to enable you to make up to 6000 calls at once. Housing the electronics is a titanium "iBackpack" designed by iPhone inventor

Al Gore, the iPhone Pro is also Airport enabled, letting you make calls wirelessly over the network at up to N rated speeds. Control input is by a new "multi-multi touch", letting up to twelve people simultaneously make calls using their hands, feet and elbows. GPS is provided by the much faster US military satellite network, although coverage is limited to areas in the vicinity of missile installations. The customisation list is huge, and a fully specced iPhone Pro will set you back a cool £678,187, although with basic options this comes down to a more reasonable £3,471. Available in late December, the iPhone Pro is expected to make mainly media industry phone calls.

C'mon - it is a large and heavy phone

Well, I own a Touch and that's too big for your pocket. Thin, yes, but its length is awkward.

The iPhone is much thicker and weighs a whole lot more.

Smartphones by their nature are going to be a bit bigger - fine.

But for us who want a more consumer based phone, size is a factor. The first thing I thought when I held the iPhone was "I wouldn't like to carry this around in my pocket all day".

The market is full of handsets which are much lighter and smaller. All I'm saying is that an iPhone Nano would be an advantage to those of us who want a more compact device.

The Nano concept exists because it's what consumers want.. Otherwise, they'd be no iPod Shuffle or iPod Nano.

@Robert Hill

"extra length isn't objectionable at all. As someone who carries my phone in my trousers pocket,"

Maybe some of us have no room for the extra length in our trouser pockets....

Paris, becuae she like a bit of lextra ength

gadget fatigue

Every new toy we buy looks like crap after a year, and then we just move onto the next must have......why ?

Get a 6310i if you want a phone, and turn the wireless on if you want music, as for the internet - it is clearly the work of Beelzebub and should be avoided.

MAC products are just fashion items anyway - like Harleys they are masterpieces of form over function - only difference is you don't have to be fat to own a MAC.

</old git>

RE: I would never buy an iPhone.

"That cock on the Gadget Show loves them, that's good enough for me to NOT want one..."

Oh, I thought his "review" of the 3G version last night was fair and even handed. *cough*

@ A/c

Ahh the 6310i. Look's at the very battered model in drawer that finally died early this year, one day I'll fix my trusty friend.....

@Stu Reeves

"Maybe some of us have no room for the extra length in our trouser pockets...."

I hang to the other side, mate...