Biff: Analyst is smoking crack.

No way this will happen until they update the iPhone to 30 or 60 gig. The current iPhone is basically a nano anyways in terms of HD space and HD kind (flash drive to reduce battery strain). Touch screens also do not work well in a small form factor. The more likely near future apple product is a touch screen ipod. Or how bout a iPhone shuffle....random music, random calls

What about the iPhone Tic Tac?

It may happen, but I doubt it will happen by Christmas because Apple tends to update things that people will buy for other people around Christmas. Most people aren't going to buy another person a phone (parents maybe).

The iPod is due for a refresh, and the Nano last received an update around Christmas.

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Biff wrote:
Biff: Analyst is smoking crack.

No dude, that is my line.

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Biff wrote:
Biff: Analyst is smoking crack.

Indeed - as should be obvious to anyone who's been paying attention. But apparently a lot of folks in the market have more money than brains, and they bid up AAPL today in response. Only now some cooler heads from the same company have woken up and more or less deprecated the original report:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/07/10/jp_morgans_us_branch_quashes_iphone_nano_report.html

The on-screen keyboard in portrait mode on the iPhone is already too small (tho the landscape one in Safari ain't bad at all) so I don't see how Apple could possibly put an iPhone in something the size of a Nano unless they've come up with some unbelievably ingenious new way of implementing a keyboard. The battery size would be another problem. And all the other components, too. But you never know about Apple.

In few years, some analysts will come up with a idea that Apple is working on booting up any PC computer to Mac OS X from connected iPhone / iPod. - Linux style. Apple is the only company that could do this successfully. And it would rock. What a great surprise it will be!!!

(Note: I'm NOT working on Apple, i got no insider information. - i do consulting for companies looking for the next big thing. Outsider information is enough...)

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Juha wrote:
In few years, some analysts will come up with a idea that Apple is working on booting up any PC computer to Mac OS X from connected iPhone / iPod. - Linux style. Apple is the only company that could do this successfully. And it would rock. What a great surprise it will be!!!

All you really need is to load the Home folder and the Applications folder. The rest of the OS stays the same enough to not worry about. (And the OS on the phone would differ from a desktop anyway.) Maybe better than mounting the iPhone would be sync-ing the home and apps folders with the desktop's local hard drive copy.

Well, about an iPhone Nano, what sort of features could it have that would make it different from an iPod Nano and not entirely a full iPhone??? All I can think of is to take the Nano as-is and then add the iPhone's contact list and phone call system. Leave out videos, leave out internet. If you want to beat my current cheapo phone, you need a 2MP+ camera too.

The touchscreen part would be sorta weird on a nano-size screen. You could use it to touch buttons and to scroll the contacts list. For a keyboard, I imagine you'd only have on in landscape mode, since anything else would be too small, and you'd only need it to enter new contacts anyway.

So they _could_ make an iPhone Nano, but I definitely do not expect one so soon.