Wall Street Journal has updated their article about Apple working on a smaller and cheaper iPhone and revamping MobileMe service with some more details.
WSJ reports that according to the person who has checked out the prototype of the smaller iPhone model, it was lighter and had edge-to-edge screen.
WSJ reports:
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.
WSJ also provides some more details of the revamped MobileMe service:
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.
This means that iOS device users will be able to finally access the iTunes library without syncing to the computer by cable, which is currently a major pain. We’ve heard several rumors that Apple will launch a cloud-based iTunes service. Let’s hope we finally see it this summer.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.
[via WSJ]
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haha ive never ever done that….not what what its cracked up to be.
I hope you’re fulfilled and will never feel the need to do it again!
Lesson learned! LOL
To the cloud! Oh wait that’s Microsoft :/
All this is a rumour till they launch it.
Agreed. As it is just speculation, nothing is true until Apple announces it. Once Apple announces it then it will be true but till then. ALL fake.
What’s all this with making it smaller? I want a 4″ screen, hell, a 4.5 screen would be nice too, the larger the screen, the more real-estate behind it you can cram 3D graphics cards and high performance processors. I recall apple saying a while back
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We’re not going to play in the low-end voice phone business. That’s not who we are, that’s not why we’re here. Goal is not to lead unit sales, but to build the world’s best phone.
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Does Tim Cook no longer work for Apple? Where is this worlds best phone? I see the worlds best mobile OS, but android is catching up at an alarming rate, and their hardware has far exceeded Apples. (Motorola Atrix, Motorola Bionic) the only thing besides their OS the have to stand on is the iPhone 4′s retina display. Here’s an idea, 1.5Mhz dual core processor, 32GB of memory (for the base model, 64GB available) 1,440×960 4.5 AMOLED screen, 1.5GB of RAM, 9MP camera, a HD high volume speaker, now that’s an iPhone to compete with….
Very nice, dream on too… iPhone is the best in it’s class, just because a device has a higher clocked speed does not mean it will be faster, it’s like saying a muscle car with 8 litre is faster than a 3.2 litre Ferrari, the muscle car is slower due to it’s heavy weight… Hardware and software have to work together to be efficient which apple understands and does, android is crap, however, their manufacturers have good hardware true, but if the software is limited, it makes the hardware useless!
U are obviously an Apple fanboy. Android is crap? In what aspect? I’m currently typing this on an iPhone4, and I’ve had every iPhone besides the 3GS, but recently I bought my girlfriend a Nexus S. As far as I can tell, the specs on the phone are close, they run about the same as smoothness and the graphics (minus the screen not quite being as good as mine) and animations are much more fluid on android. Her browser loads pages only a split second faster, the nexus s has speech to text built in to the keyboard, and many more features. Before you call something crap, have a leg to stand on first….