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The urgency to bring out third-party accessories just as soon as a product launches has bitten Apple a few times over the past year or so, with iPods and the iPhone 3G all being tipped via leaked case details. Now we’re supposedly seeing the form factor of the upcoming iPhone nano, courtesy of a silicone skin case from XSKN.
According to the source, the iPhone nano will have EDGE rather than 3G data connectivity like its bigger brother, be as tall as the current iPod nano 4G but broader and deeper, and have the same curved profile as the current Apple smartphone. Unlike some of the earlier patents and speculative renders, it will have a touchscreen with multitouch support, dropping half an inch or so off of the iPhone 3G’s display.
Apple will, apparently, be looking to sell the iPhone nano at retail locations such as Walmart, with aggressive pricing and an unknown amount of internal storage. The original source suggests a Macworld announcement in January 2009.
[via Unwired View]
One Response to “iPhone nano leaked by silicone case render?”
Vengeance January 2, 2009
I work for AT&T Provisioning, and I was looking at this blog while killing time at work. I had gone to my AT&T home page and I saw this under the news section.
“Apple May Unveil Cheaper iPhone in 2009 – Analysts say Apple will probably begin selling a lower-priced version of the iPhone in the first half of this year, tapping a new chipmaker for a key component. Qualcomm will replace Infineon Technologies as the supplier of the baseband processor – the chip that translates radio signals into voice and data – in the new model. The phone could debut in the second quarter. Apple currently sells two versions of the iPhone, an 8-gigabyte model for $199 and a 16-gigabyte device for $299.”
I’d assume this would be proof, but it is just a guess on the Analysist’s part.
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