From the Times of London comes some info on what the new iPhone is going to look like.
After wading through a pile of reports on how the original iPhone didn’t sell as well in Europe as originally hoped, there’s this bit on the upcoming 3G model:
Industry sources told Times Online that the device will have a “radically different” appearance to the current device, which has a 4.5 inch screen and slick, aluminium backing. Among the possibilities are flip version, which would enable the screen to be larger, and a sliding model with a regular qwerty keyboard - as opposed to a touchscreen one.
“I think ultimately you going to see multiple versions,” one Asia-based analyst, said. “One for customers who want it principally as a music and video device, which will be similar to the existing model, one for people who want to communicate - with the keyboard, and one for people who want it as a substitute for their laptop - that will let them browse the internet on a larger screen.”
This is what’s known as a “bad idea.”
The reason the iPhone has become such an iconic device — at least to us naive hicks in the U.S. — is that it dumped all the clunky, conventional cell phone features.
No flip screen, no knobby, hard plastic buttons. Just a single sleek, shiny, smooth capsule.
I don’t even think a bigger screen is a good idea. The iPhone is already bigger than every traditional phone, and expanding the thing even more will (almost certainly) make it more expensive and push the 3G iPhone into the realm of tiny laptop rather than phone/media device.
Steve Jobs, don’t mess this up.
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