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An iPhone without the phone!?

12 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/an-iphone-without-the-phone.62844/

αNerd
αNerd Original post #1
Jul 13, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Reports from Taiwan suggest that Apple may launch next month a new iPod that looks, feels and works like an iPhone, but without the phone part.

DigiTimes, a Taiwan-based publication that often leaks details about local companies that make electronic components for companies worldwide, says Taiwan-based Wintek has won a large touchscreen display contract for Apple's next media player.

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rockthegod
Jul 13, 2007 at 6:07 PM
awesum news.... this was what I was waitin for !!! :)
iMav
iMav #3
Jul 13, 2007 at 7:17 PM
^^actually its rumor that has been around before the iphone was announced .. the 6th gen ipod is said to have an interface very similar to the ipone
rahul.ims
Jul 19, 2007 at 7:40 PM
@iMav....
hey lemme clarufy ur words...first of all it not 6G but only 3G....
the latest in the telecom is that it has iPhone has been acquired by the AT&T for next 2 years...i know that this news may be a pretty old one for u techies but still to update u ppl.......for the next 2 years no other company can provide this service around the globe other than the AT&T....and AT&T has recently acquired the Bellsouth and cingular of the US south-east.....
napster007
Jul 19, 2007 at 7:42 PM
intresting!!
rahul.ims
Jul 19, 2007 at 7:45 PM
the drawbacks of this iPhone is that its battery is been souldered into the phone itself that makes it undetachabla and if anything goed wrong with the battery then whole has to be deposited for the repair that make the user limp and dead...
gxsaurav
Jul 19, 2007 at 8:05 PM
rahul.ims said:
@iMav....
hey lemme clarufy ur words...first of all it not 6G but only 3G....
the latest in the telecom is that it has iPhone has been acquired by the AT&T for next 2 years...i know that this news may be a pretty old one for u techies but still to update u ppl.......for the next 2 years no other company can provide this service around the globe other than the AT&T....and AT&T has recently acquired the Bellsouth and cingular of the US south-east.....

Umm...6th generation iPod is what he was talking about.

3G is a technology behind internet & data on Phone.

the drawbacks of this iPhone is that its battery is been souldered into the phone itself that makes it undetachabla and if anything goed wrong with the battery then whole has to be deposited for the repair that make the user limp and dead...

Thats just one of the 10001 flaws iPhone has :D, but just look at the UI, it looks so Cool :D
~Phenom~
Jul 19, 2007 at 8:13 PM
gx_saurav said:
Thats just one of the 10001 flaws iPhone has :D, but just look at the UI, it looks so Cool :D
ROFL:p;):D:)
rahul.ims
Jul 19, 2007 at 8:13 PM
gx_saurav said:
Umm...6th generation iPod is what he was talking about.

3G is a technology behind internet & data on Phone.



Thats just one of the 10001 flaws iPhone has :D, but just look at the UI, it looks so Cool :D

oh m extremly sorry man.....act iPhone was running around my mind...so ...realy sorry.....:oops:
iMav
iMav #10
Jul 19, 2007 at 8:19 PM
gx_saurav said:
Umm...6th generation iPod is what he was talking about.
yes
gx_saurav said:
Thats just one of the 10001 flaws iPhone has , but just look at the UI, it looks so Cool
10001 times yes :D
cooldudie3
Jul 20, 2007 at 1:31 PM
rahul.ims said:
@iMav....
hey lemme clarufy ur words...first of all it not 6G but only 3G....
there is such thing as 3.5G in the nokia n95 and 6110 navigator!

i don't seem to find the iphone useful!
rockthegod
Jul 20, 2007 at 1:39 PM
nokia n95 3G is useless for US 3G networks :( ... so 3.5G is further useless !!!!