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T-Mobile, the smallest of the four giants could certainly use this in their lineup and I'm sure welcome by many as an alternative to at&t. ]]>Jan 13th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/01/13/iphone-nano-now-rumored-for-june-unicorn-delayed-again-until-se/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/01/13/iphone-nano-now-rumored-for-june-unicorn-delayed-again-until-se/
"Adding a new twist to the rumors on Monday was a report from American Technology Research analyst Brian Marshal, who suggest that the much rumored nano phone would bypass the US markets to serve only those abroad, particularly the Far East.

Marshal based his assumption on feedback from AT&T insiders who told him that such a device had not surfaced within the wireless carrier's testing labs, which would seem to preclude a stateside launch in the near term."]]>Jan 13th 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/01/13/iphone-nano-now-rumored-for-june-unicorn-delayed-again-until-se/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/01/13/iphone-nano-now-rumored-for-june-unicorn-delayed-again-until-se/Jan 13th 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/01/13/iphone-nano-now-rumored-for-june-unicorn-delayed-again-until-se/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/01/13/iphone-nano-now-rumored-for-june-unicorn-delayed-again-until-se/
...Thus, the iPhone Nano, also known as the "little finger friendly" iPhone.

DUH]]>Jan 14th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/01/13/iphone-nano-now-rumored-for-june-unicorn-delayed-again-until-se/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/01/13/iphone-nano-now-rumored-for-june-unicorn-delayed-again-until-se/Jan 13th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/01/13/iphone-nano-now-rumored-for-june-unicorn-delayed-again-until-se/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/01/13/iphone-nano-now-rumored-for-june-unicorn-delayed-again-until-se/
I say, send it to a CDMA and really piss off ATT :)

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Although an "iPhone Nano" sounds realistic at first blush, when you actually consider it in detail, it doesn't make sense.

1) Most problematic is the text input. The iPhone virtual keyboard is already quite small and many find it usable only in landscape mode. Shrinking the screen and thus shrinking the onscreen keyboard could potentially make the device even more difficult to use.

2) An iPhone with a smaller display would complicate the user interface situation. If the device had the same resolution in a smaller screen, user interface elements like text, dialogs, buttons, and other controls would shrink. On the other hand, if the smaller display had lower resolution, it'd be even worse with display elements literally going off the screen.
So regardless, developers would have to maintain two separate versions of their apps which seems unlikely to be something Apple would want to cause.

The only way I see this happening is if Apple is working on a new OS and SDK update that creates a UI scaling system that makes the iPhone essentially resolution independent. This does make sense however since it is likely that a future iPhone will have a higher resolution display, so this may be necessary anyways. Also, resolution independence may find its way into the next desktop version of OSX -- OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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