Analyst predicts iPhone based on iPod nano
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(InfoWorld) - Apple will follow up its debut iPhone with a cheaper version based on the iPod nano, a JPMorgan financial analyst said yesterday, echoing comments last week by bloggers scouring the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database. Kevin Chang, a Taiwan-based analyst with New York's JPMorgan Chase, said that Apple will release a less-expensive iPhone in the fourth quarter, according to Reuters. Chang, who based his forecast on unnamed sources in the supply channel and an Apple application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filed last week, said a follow-up to the current iPhone could be based on the iPod nano, Apple's flash drive-based music player. "We believe that iPod nano will be converted into a phone because it's probably the only way for Apple to launch a lower-end phone without severely cannibalizing iPod nano," Chang told Reuters. At $300, a scaled-down nano-based iPhone might sell as many as 30 million to 40 million units in 2008, Chang argued. Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, has fixed the iPhone sales target through 2008 at 10 million handsets. Apple's iPod nano currently sells for between $149 and $249. Chang's take comes after bloggers last week noticed a July 5 patent application titled "Touch pad with symbols based on mode" that, they theorized, could serve as the interface for an entry-level iPhone. Both Unwired View and MyiTablet, for instance, noted that the patent described a touchpad-based device that would serve as only phone and iPod. Unlike the current iPhone, the cheaper alternative would not boast a large screen or allow Internet browsing. The patent application spells out a touchpad similar to the iPod's click-wheel that would change modes -- and its display -- depending on the application. When in phone mode, for example, the circular touchpad could show dialing numbers in a style reminiscent of long-obsolete rotary phones. Switch to music mode, and the touchscreen reverts to a traditional iPod click-wheel for traversing artist or genre lists. Apple introduced the iPhone on June 29 to fanfare and long lines of customers.
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Apple Inc. is scheduled to make an announcement today that analysts expect will be iPod upgrades.
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Investors anxiously await any meaningful iPhone impact.
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InfoWorld - Users may see an iPhone with 3G technology in the next six months, a financial analyst said Monday, citing waning inventory of Apple's current iPhone and the increasing demand in Europe for 3G products.
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Remember a couple of weeks ago when Steve Jobs took the stage and announced a $200 cheaper iPhone. That was pretty bad. And an iPhone that's just an iPod. Who needs that! The new Nano sure is cute, but cute insn't enough. I have a 1.5 year old 60GB video iPod that still works (sorry Steve) and I never use the video, so the $300 I have burning a hole in my pocket for my monthly Apple impulse buy (above and beyond the new Mini I bought last week) is going to (drum roll please) Nokia!  Yup, my next iPod/iPhone-alike thingy isn't even from Apple and it runs Linux, and comes highly recommended by geeks everywhere. I just put in the order on Amazon, I'll let you know how cool it is in a few days.  PS: This is my way of thanking Ben Bernanke for the huge windfall I got in the stock market yesterday and today. I think the 1/2 percent drop in interest rates is supposed to make us go out and buy stuff to stimulate the economy. Just doing my part Uncle Ben!
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Blog: The rumor mill's buzzing about new iPod models apparently due to be introduced on September 5. How many more rabbits can Apple pull out of the hat?
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Investor's Business Daily - As more cell phone makers launch handsets that also play musie, Apple Computer  (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) looks poised to defend its turf by going on the offensive with an iPod music player capable of making phone calls.
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The iPhone is about to do for smartphones what the iPod did for digital music players: put one in everyone&#8217;s pocket.
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No list of trends would be complete without a mention of Apple's iPhone, a device that many handset manufacturers will be looking to beat in 2008 in order to attract a consumer that is ever more interested in advanced wireless services. Many of those devices will debut at CES next week.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The next wave of iPod competitors is  coming.
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Apple could be preparing a third touch-screen gadget for next year, one that reminds more than one person of the Newton.
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PC World breaks apart Apple's iPhone to analyze the device's internal components.
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(InfoWorld) - TheÂ guessing game continuesÂ over which processorsÂ Apple's iPhoneÂ will use, with Arm Holdings' top executive hinting the device will contain his company's intellectual property. Warren East, Arm's president and CEO, was reported as saying the iPhone will have "at least three" Arm processor cores, according to the EE Times on Wednesday. Arm, based in Cambridge, England, licenses a variety of processor designs to other companies and manufacturers. A spokesman with Arm's public relations agency in London said the report wasn't quite accurate but not inaccurate, either. The report was "based on speculation," and Arm was considering issuing a clarifying statement regarding the story, he said. Apple's public relations agency said the fewÂ details about the iPhoneÂ were revealed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his MacWorld keynote speech on Jan. 9. "We don't know anything," the Apple representative said on Friday. When unveiling the phone, Apple's boss Steve Jobs said it will run OS X with special iPhone applications. Apple hopes to sell 10 million devices, which will retail for $499 for a 4GB model or $599 for an 8GB one. Analyst firms including investment bank Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group (FBR) have compiled lists of which manufacturers are likely contributing to the iPhone. A day after Jobs' announcement, FBR said Samsung Electronics would likely provide an applications/video processor. Samsung licenses a range of processor technology from Arm. Didier Scemama, a semiconductor analyst with ABN AMRO BankÂ in London, figures Arm cores going into three processors: the Samsung processor, a Wi-Fi chip from Marvel Technology Group and GPRS/EDGE baseband chip from Infineon Technologies. Scemama wouldn't say how he came to his conclusions. The use of three cores won't mean much for Arm, whose technology already goes in other mobile devices made by companies such as Nokia, Scemama said. Other analysts agreed with Scemama's assessment. "If Arm cores are common in phones and other small devices, why wouldn't they be found in the iPhone?," said Roger Kay president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, an analyst company. So why do people care so much about the slivers of silicon? For enthusiasts, it fuels speculation over the iPhone's performance before it hits U.S. shelves in June. An Arm-based processor would mean OS X would have to be ported to a new platform. The OS already runs on Intel Corp.'s x86 and IBM Corp.'s PowerPC processors. For others, it means the satisfaction of cracking the wall of secrecy Apple builds around it products months before the first device is cracked open with a putty knife. "The only thing that makes it news is that Apple is so tight-lipped about its products, every little snippet of information is thought to be significant," Kay said. Suppliers aren't supposed to reveal that their components are used in Apple products, Kay said. But as Apple has diversified its product line, its number of suppliers has increased, making leaks more prevalent and the monitoring of the suppliers harder, he said.
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The incoming CEO of AT&T said Wednesday that expectations are "too low" for Apple Inc.'s iPhone, which his company will start selling next month. "The iPhone is going to be a game changer," Randall Stephenson said at an investor conference in New York.
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Apple may release an iPhone with 3G technology by midyear, financial analyst says.
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We asked usability experts to compare the iPhone with two competitors to see if Apple's device matches its hype. They came up with an unequivocal answer.
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A patent application filed by Apple has fueled speculation that the company is readying an iPhone device that would extend the life of the iPod and allow the company to branch off in a new direction.