The Wall Street Journal is echoing the Bloomberg report, and is claiming that Apple is working on a smaller, less expensive iPhone that will be introduced this summer.
Here’s an excerpt:
One of the people, who saw a prototype of a new iPhone several months ago, said the new device is intended to be sold alongside the current line of iPhones and would be about half the size of the iPhone 4. The phone, one of its codenames is N97, would be available to mobile carriers at about half the price of Apple’s main line of iPhones, the person said.
The Wall Street Journal piece was later updated to include more details about the device, such as it’s rumored “edge-to-edge” screen.
The person who saw the prototype of the new iPhone said the device was significantly lighter than the iPhone 4 and had an edge-to-edge screen that could be manipulated by touch, as well as a virtual keyboard and voice-based navigation. The person said Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., also plans to upgrade the iPhone 4.
So, it essentially sounds like the same iPhone we’ve all come to know and love, but just smaller. That leads me to question, what will set it apart from a current sized iPhone other than it’s price and size? Why is this device needed? Or, is this new smaller iPhone going to be the successor to the iPhone 4 all together? So many questions.
Lastly, the report also notes that Apple is revamping their MobileMe service and will be giving it away for free. The new MobileMe would allow users to access their iTunes content with out completing a hardwired sync to their computers.
The new service would give users access to their iTunes libraries from, say an iPhone or iPad, instead of requiring that the devices be synced by cable with a computer and use space to store the actual files, the people said. The new service likely would be compatible with the iPhone 4, one of the people said.
In other words, this may very well be the “iTunes in the cloud” we’ve heard so much about over the past few years.
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