NEWS: Gizmodophone may have forced Jobs' hand, Is there another iPhone 4G out there?
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From: John Navas on 26 May 2010 23:28 One reason Steve Jobs went ballistic over the infamous iPhone-left-in-a-bar escapade may have been that the lost stolen peripatetic prototype was not the one he planned to introduce from the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote stage on June 7. In a Wednesday wrap-up of iPhone 4G rumors, DigiTimes analyst Ming-Chi Kuo � he of the recent 24 million iPhone forecast � noted that the Gizmodophone bore a tag that read "N90", an iPhone 4G internal codename. No big deal there. But he also noted that his sources have told him that there is another iPhone prototype in the works with the codename of "N91." This one, apparently, is less advanced than the N90. "[The N91] is a parallel product to back up the N90 in case there are major delays due to significant modifications in casing, display resolution, digital camera support, and so forth." If Kuo is correct � and if there had still been uncertainty in Cupertino whether the N90 or the N91 would share the stage with Apple's CEO on June 7 � the loss of the N90 prototype made that decision for them. Now that the world assumes, for example, that the next-generation iPhone will have a front-facing camera, it would be egg-on-face time for Steve Jobs if he had to introduce a less-capable model. MORE: <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/26/n90_and_n91/> COMMENT: The term "vaporware" comes to mind. ;) |