Next Gen iPod = iPhone without the Phone
Since the release, several tentative efforts to hack the expensive iPhone to disable the phone function. These actions perhaps have given Apple some hints about customer demand for such thing.
Apple watchers Piper Jaffray released a report Monday predicting that Apple will soon update its high-end iPod lineup with a wide-screen model that looks an awful lot like the iPhone without the phone nor data plan as reported by CNET.
With the launch of the iPhone, Apple does indeed have that wide-screen iPod, but its hefty price and data plan requirements could turn off iPod users who just want that large screen without all the bells and whistles. Piper Jaffray estimates that for around $299 Apple could sell a phoneless iPhone that runs Mac OS X and uses the same touch-screen interface as the iPhone.
[Source Peper Jaffrey Via CNET News.com]
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