Budget iPhone photos leak?
We've been hearing about the iPhone nano, aka the budget iPhone, for a while now and Vietnamese set Tinhte might finally have scored a prototype.
3 pictures below are photographs handset is said to be the next version of iPhone 4 from a very reliable source. Really hard to convince you to believe this because it is exactly like the iPhone 4 white appearance. Some other information that you want to transfer to you is that this machine seems to run faster than the iPhone 4, lighter weight and two glass front and back seem to have been replaced by two plastic sheets, type of sensation and cry other than the iPhone 4. According to information leakage, predictable from the English website, the more likely Apple will introduce the iPhone 4s (cheap version) and the iPhone 5 next month. And it looks like the iPhone that you see below is the iPhone 4s.
That Apple was working on a cheaper iPhone for new entrants and emerging markets has always been assumed -- because it makes sense -- but how exactly they'd go about doing it was and is the big question. Just like the MacBook Air and iPad are to the netbook, Apple has a way of filling holes in the product line-up in unpredictable but often high effective ways.
Instead of making an iPhone physically smaller, or using iPhone 3GS parts, if these pictures prove to be genuine, and this prototype hasn't already been abandoned, the idea of plastic instead of glass and possibly other lower-end components could very easily make for a cheaper iPhone that's still binary compatible with the existing App Store apps and perhaps even current accessories (and Jailbreaks?).
But then would iPhone 5 have to look different so fashionistas don't worry about it being mistaken for the cheap phone?
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Well, after a month or so, no one will confuse your iPhone 5 (or my iPhone 4) with the, as listed here, "iPhone 4s" - The plastic will be scuffed and scratched...
I personally feel they will go the same route they did when the iPhone 4 came out. Sell the prior (now current) generation model at $99 on a 2 year contract.
Depends if they want to screw around with the prepaid/emerging market. This fits Sprint in the US with them increasing prepaids while losing contracts.
The big risk though is making a subpar product. I'm not sure Apple wants to go down that road where they're considered cheap or low end.
I would agree with you. Stick with the winning formula they've been using. Expand carriers. I'd rather get the kiddo an ipod touch 3G as her "phone" later if that is really happening. She'd have messaging, video/voip calling, basically what she would need. Easier to replace. And at 25 a month possibly? That's a winner.
huh. the glare in plastic for sure. but it doesn't mean that's not a screen protector
hah!!!......just like last year
Or it's just an iPhone 4 that clearly has a screen protector on it (check around the home button). This article is embarrassing. I know we're all starved for some new information, but this is too much of a stretch.
If Apple needs different budget ranges then... $50- 3GS $100- iP4 $200- iP5...
But then again, that makes too much sense, and people wouldn't be able to post FUD like this.
idiot
That was insightful.
Better still:
3GS- $250 Prepaid; no contract 8GB iPhone 4- $99 16-32GB i5- $199-$299
FAAAAAAKE! Cheap Chinese conversion kit running Cydia
wow of all rumors this is the worst thus far
Sorry Rene, it makes no sense for Apple to produce a new budget iPhone since they already have one, its called iPhone 3GS. You also know that Apple will never produce an iPhone with a plastic screen.
This rumor is just silly, there must be something more interesting happening on the Apple world.
its probably being sold at those fake Chinese Apple stores.
Why can't Apple make the iPod Touch 5 a data "phone" because you see calls with it and make imessage text what more do you need Also Nokia pluse Windows Phone is totally going eat those markets up Plastic touch screen is nit going to sell well.
wow didnt realize that was plastic ... Looks decent. The macrumors site says that its probably a matte screen protector but i dont think thats true because the breaks in the antenna dont show into the glass as the plastic prototype does.
lol! How anyone determined this to be some kind of "leaked" iPhone nano pic is beyond me.
"Update: Some have suggested that the device is simply a regular jailbroken iPhone 4 with either matte protection films on the front and back or an early conversion kit utilizing plastic parts to turn black iPhone 4 units into white ones. While either of these explanations may be true, the original poster seems to believe that the device is genuine, and his track record of having obtained access to an iPhone 4 prototype ahead of the device's introduction as well as other prototype iOS devices adds weight to his claims. "
-from the original article (MacRumors)
It's clear as day that the phone has a screen protector on it... you can see it around the edges and the home button.
This is just a white iPhone 4. Smh
That is a fake look at the light sensor it is the old way not inline with the current light sensor.
Please ni moore BS!
Nope, not falling for it.
The budget iphone is always the previous version. Can't see apple doing a budget phone. What next budget Macbook pro's and budget imac's? Please put the budget/nano iphone rumors to rest.
Very good points.
True but I always have an open mind. They dont have to sell the previous model.
"Apple has a way of filling holes in the product line-up in unpredictable but often high effective ways."
Nah, they're pretty predictable. My prediction would be they'll do simlar to last year. Release a cheaper iPhone 4 with lower memory, maybe a plastic back, and possible downgrade to the iTouch screen.
Sad/pathetic
like your arrogant self
It's getting hot in here, now take off all your turtlenecks.
It's getting hot in here, so take off all your turtlenecks.
wow.. TiPb too?? I'm sooo disappointed..
"Update: Some have suggested that the device is simply a regular jailbroken iPhone 4 with either matte protection films on the front and back or an early conversion kit utilizing plastic parts to turn black iPhone 4 units into white ones. While either of these explanations may be true, the original poster seems to believe that the device is genuine, and his track record of having obtained access to an iPhone 4 prototype ahead of the device's introduction as well as other prototype iOS devices adds weight to his claims." via MacRumors
look at the proximity sensor didnt they fix that so now it looks black??
Oh yeah. An as-of-yet-topsecret iPhone that has been jailbroken using as-of-yet-inexistant tools for an as-of-yet-unreleased firmware.
That's just an ordinary iPhone 4 with a $3 transparent sticker applied to it. Oh, and this just in: there is a budget iPhone coming. It will be named -drums - iPhone 4!
But the spacing of the home button and the LCD screen is further apart ten the original iPhone 4 that we know.
The whole point of an iPhone "Nano" is that it is principally intended to target the global "Prepaid/Pay-as-you-Go/No Contract" market which is becoming almost larger than the standard contract market.
In this light, Apple is looking to introduce a lower cost iPhone variant that could be priced "unlocked" in the $300 or lower range compared to the current $649 to $749 range for the iPhone 4 Unlocked.