According to Reuters, drawing information from a JP Morgan report, Apple is planning on releasing a iPhone at the end of this year that will be $300 or less and based on the iPod Nano. I’m not going to call it the iPhone Nano because that sounds silly, I hope they don’t name it that but who knows.
I find this very odd that Apple would undercut the iPhone so quickly. If you compare it to the iPod which was first released on October 23, 2001, a smaller lower priced iPod wasn’t released until about 2 years later in January of 2004. (Source: Wikipedia)
It seems like Apple would want the iPhone craziness to calm down for a bit before coming out with a second iPhone, my guess is that that craziness wouldn’t be over until after Christmas.
Now it wouldn’t surprise me for them to announce a new iPhone but not ship it until January similar to how the AppleTV was announced and released. I don’t think that Apple would want to do anything different and upset all of the iPhone owners who just a few months earlier spent $500-$600 on the first generation iPhone.
I’m not disputing the idea that Apple would be working on a smaller lower cost iPhone but I don’t believe that they would release it so close to the launch of the initial iPhone.
Reuters – Apple plans cheaper, Nano-based phone: JP Morgan
Update: After all the chatter on the internet about the iPhone Nano, JP Morgan rejects iPhone nano report
why would they release an iphone nano? shouldn’t they have released it the same day or before?