Apparently Bob Woodward now works as a gadget blogger. Unwired View insists that the iPhone nano is real. It also insists that the iPhone nano won’t—repeat, WON’T—have a touch screen. Super. Why would Apple remove the iPhone’s only killer app? It’s not like people are flocking to the iPhone because AT&T has such a wonderful cellular network. (Or maybe AT&T just stinks in New York?) Either way, the View says that, when JP Morgan said it couldn’t confirm the availability of the iPhone nano, it wasn’t a retraction of its earlier story saying, “Sure, the iPhone nano might come out one day.” Terrific.
I guess I just don’t “buy” that Apple would release an iPhone without its much vaunted touch screen. That’s like releasing the Xbox 360 without the ability to play video games; you can only stream your pics and video to it. It seems silly, IMO.
iPhone Nano Is Real [Unwired View]
If they released any additional models in the near future without the touch screen, it would be an uber-flop. I can’t imagine this concept would even make it to Steve Jobs desk because he would certainly lash any employee for such a whack idea, make them cry and kick them out of Cupertino.
That has to be the most awkward, impossible way to do any sort of text entry, ever. Entering digits themselves would be just as awkward as an old school analog dialing phone. Who in their right mind would believe this?