Thank Heavens This Isn’t the iPhone Nano

Pete Mortensen ()

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Though we’re still about two months from the WWDC keynote and new iPhone hardware, that hasn’t stopped the most audacious maker of iPhone knock-offs, HiPhone, from creating a rip-off of the still unannounced iPhone nano. Yes, meet the HiPhone nano. On the outside, it looks like an ancient iPod mini, if only Apple had no taste in colors. And then it flips open and has both a touchscreen and a keypad — an ungainly keypad with tiny buttons, at that.

I don’t know what the iPhone nano will look like, when and if it ever arrives. I don know that Apple would never in a million years ship anything like this. Thank goodness.

Ubergizmo via Digg

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Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete's particular Apple avocations are both around design--interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!

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  • MacRat

    Are you sure that’s not the new Zune Phone?

  • http://www.florianmaerkl.de Flo

    That cannot be an iPhone nano. It is much too fat and ugly!

  • http://sjdvda.com sjdvda

    Urgghhh…how could these people do this!!!

    *starts to vomit*

  • http://Appbeacon.com Justin Noel

    Those are some sinfully ugly phones!

  • ged

    remember before the iphone came out everyone said it was “impossible” for apple to “add value” to the cell phone concept?
    Thus they either would not make a phone and the rumor was hotair, or else it would fall flat? No really this was what was said.
    Then, there was the iphone mockup site that listed over 250 “designs”, NONE of which was a simple touch screen.
    That’s how brilliant Apple design is.

    There are 3 rules in life:
    1. the market will fluctuate.
    2. that one about death & taxes
    3. Apple design will always surprise, and set the standard for the industry.

  • http://www.justbekky.com Bekky

    I just threw up a little in my mouth.

    >_<

  • scott

    I just died…lol