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Apple will release a second-generation, lower cost iPhone in September for an iPod-like price of $249-299 - if a Chinese-language newspaper report citing Taiwanese industry moles is to be believed, that is.
The story - relayed by local newssite DigiTimes http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20070716VL200.html - goes along these lines: supplier Wintek has been contracted to make touchscreens for the new product. Wintek is already producing samples.
Said insiders claim the screens are for the much-rumoured second-gen iPhone, but there's no evidence to back up that claim.
Hmmm
TheRegister wrote:
In fact, we're sceptical. For starters, the iPhone's screen is believed to come from Germany's Balda, though that doesn't mean Apple wouldn't look elsewhere for a cheaper panel for iPhone 2.0.
But the biggest niggle is the alleged price - half of what Apple and AT&T are asking for iPhones today. And we're expected to believe this massive reduction is going to take place a mere three months after iPhone 1.0 was released? We think not.
Wintek may be making screens for a future Apple product. It may even be working on displays for the iPhone family. But our money's on a next-gen iPod - quite possible the long-awaited widescreen video-oriented model, now forgotten or at least way overshadowed by the iPhone hooplah.
That's a product that might well debut in September - a traditional time for iPod updates - for $249-299.
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