July 2, 2008
Apple considering slider-style iPhone?
Could Apple have a slider-style iPhone up its sleeve? Asks C/net.
That's what The Register thinks, reporting Monday that Apple has shown off prototypes of an iPhone with a hardware keyboard to certain executives at wireless operators.
The report suggests that a hardware-keyboard iPhone will be out around this time next year assuming Apple can work out the kinks."
This is not the first time a newspaper reports on a radically different appearance to the iPhone.
In April, Times Online via Pocket-Lint wrote: "Industry sources told Times Online that the device will have a 'radically different' appearance to the current device, which has a 4.5-inch [sic] screen and slick, aluminium backing".
Among the possibilities are a 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."
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