The possibility of a mini iPhone has been cast away, thanks to those familiar with the matter over at the NY Times
I’m guilty. I fed into the possibility of an iPhone nano and plastered it across Business Review USA and I have no regret. Mostly because people were really interested in the possibility of having a mini iPhone to show off at their next board meeting and also because I, too, have gone to the darkside and now am a proud owner of the first Verizon iPhone.
The folks over at the New York Times have inevitably squashed any and all speculation about the iPhone nano, even though the Wall Street Journal suggested quite the contrary. The Times often have people familiar with “the matter” who love to debunk and make rumors flourish.
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The Times writes: “Another person who is in direct contact with Apple also said that the company would not make a smaller iPhone at this time, in part because a smaller device would not necessarily be much cheaper to manufacture and because it would be more difficult to operate. More important, a phone with a smaller screen would force many developers to rewrite their apps, which Apple wants to avoid, the person said.”
The Times also mentions that Apple is actually working on the iPhone 4 predecessors, the iPhone 5, which should be on store shelves this summer. But we all knew that, now...Read the rest at:
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