Recently there have been allot of rumors and posts about an iPhone Nano that Apple is supposedly working on behind closed doors and is planning to unveil at the 2009 MacWorld Event on Jan 5th 2009. The rumor really took off last week when an iPhone accessory manufacturer stated that it had gotten a mold of the new iPhone Nano and later published renderings of the mold.
The latest bits of leaked info or just a really nice rendering of the iPhone Nano done by someone other than Apple has surfaced and it shows the iPhone Nano next to its big brother the iPhone 3G. You can easily see the difference in size. The iPhone Nano in this rendering is about the size of a credit card (if opened in photoshop and the iPhone 3G is scaled to actual size), which makes sense to me.
The iPhone Nano is rumored to have less features than the iPhone 3G, forsaking 3G and GPS to allow it to be cheaper and smaller. The timing of such a device is a heated debate, and here is my personal take on this.
I think the possibility of Apple introducing an iPhone Nano are very good. There is a HUGE segment of the market that cant afford the iPhone 3G and who don’t have access to 3G and probably will never use GPS and allot of the storage of the high capacity iPhones. In other words they don’t need a smartphone, they just want an Apple iPhone, and one that’s smaller. Something the size of a credit card that they can access the internet via EDGE/Wifi, play/download apps from the AppStore, play/download content from iTunes and that will have cheaper data/call packages from supported carriers (maybe even an unlocked version for worldwide domination).
Also with iPod sales down and most people carrying their music and video on their phones, Apple may be looking at a smaller more portable, cheaper way to carry music, and communicate. I think it will have the same multitouch interface and qwerty, maybe a scaled down landscape keyboard and hopefully landscape typing in Mail and SMS.
This comes at a time also when Steve Jobs is looking to make a quiet graceful exit from the front of the stage at Apple. This is the perfect time for someone new to take the stage on behalf of Apple and introduce a great new addition to the iPhone family (along with a new iMac and MacMini hopefully).
At a time when Apple stock [AAPL] is lower than expected, the mobile phone market flooded and as cut throat as ever, with some handset manufacturers doing very badly, maybe Apple can do the unthinkable and drop a new product into a different segment of the market and do ingredibly well. Sounds to me like something only Apple can do.
A mobile safari plugin called iMobileCinema has recently been released for the iPhone/Touch that finally brings Flash video playback, one of the most requested and missing features of the iPhone OS. To install add d.imobilecinema.com to Cydia sources and enjoy.
Retina-X Studios announced today the immediate availability of Mobile Spy for the Apple iPhone. Using this groundbreaking iPhone spy technology, users can silently monitor incoming and outgoing text messages (SMS) and call information of children or employees - even if activity logs are erased. Mobile Spy had already been available for Windows Mobile and Symbian OS smartphones. The new version for the iPhone is now on the market.
Mobile Spy runs in total stealth mode and no mentions of the program are shown inside the iPhone. After the software is setup on the phone, it silently records the entire text of all SMS text messages along with the associated phone number. The software also records inbound and outbound call information with duration of the call. Immediately after activities are logged, they are silently uploaded to the user’s private online account. Accounts can be checked online from any web browser without needing further access to the phone.
“Mobile Spy is a priceless piece of software. After having some doubts about honesty, this really helped set the record straight and confirmed my suspicions.” says Derrick, a Mobile Spy user. Retina-X Studios CEO James Johns states “The iPhone has quickly become the most dominant smartphone all over the world. Before now there was no method to monitor activities of children or employees on the iPhone. Being the first to develop this technology, we will continue expanding with new features for this tool.”
This exclusive system helps businesses enforce their Acceptable Use Policy on company provided phones. The software can also monitor teen or family phones. It gives a parent the ability to remotely monitor their child’s texting activities by logging into a website from any web browser. Another common use is to backup a user’s own cell activity as a record of all important text conversations.
Mobile Spy runs on iPhone 3G and smartphones running the Windows Mobile or Symbian OS operating system. This includes Windows Mobile 2003, 2003 SE, 5.0 and 6.0 and Symbian OS 8.x and 9.x which are available from most major mobile carriers.
Anyways… Apple must immediately cease its exclusive relationship with France Telecom’s Orange and allow other local carriers to offer the iPhone to its subscribers, the French competition counsel ruled Wednesday.
On September 18th, France’s third largest mobile operator Bouygues Telecom filed a complaint with the regulator, arguing the deal between Apple and its larger rival violates local freedom of competition and pricing laws.
The ruling handed down this week is reportedly a temporary and precautionary measure while the counsel continues to investigate the merits of Bouygues’ claims.
In addition to being ordered to open up the iPhone to other French carriers, Apple and France Telecom are also prohibited from entering into any other exclusive agreements for future iPhone models during the precautionary period.
The French competition counsel said Apple’s exclusive arrangement with Orange poses a serious and immediate threat to competition in the wireless sector and causes consumers to incur hefty and unjust fees should they attempt to switch providers. (A copy of the 48 page ruling can be seen here in French.)
Representatives for Bouygues Telecom applauded the counsel’s decision and said the carrier is looking forward to offering the iPhone to its customers in the near future.
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Retina-X Studios announced today the immediate availability of Mobile Spy for the Apple iPhone. Using this groundbreaking iPhone spy technology, users can silently monitor incoming and outgoing text messages (SMS) and call information of children or employees - even if activity logs are erased. Mobile Spy had already been available for Windows Mobile and Symbian OS smartphones. The new version for the iPhone is now on the market.
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