Designs of second-gen iPhones have just reached the US Patent & Trademark Office. Titled Back-side Interface for Hand-Held Devices, it solves one worry users have of using touch-screen devices like the iPhone: smudges on that beautiful widescreen. The 2G iPhone will be about the size of the Nano and will be unlike the iPhone in that it doesn’t have a touch-screen. You control the interface using a force-sensitive clickwheel at the back. You operate the clickwheel while viewing a semi-transparent control on the screen. Press the clickwheel softly to scroll over the menu and press hard to select.
[via t3]
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May 29th, 2007 at 6:37 am
[...] probably have a different outer design to serve other markets. As we reported earlier, a smaller Nano-style iPhone is probably in the works. It will not have a touch screen and will sport click wheel controls at [...]
August 26th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Jack…
I was looking around and found this the other day and it worked really well….
October 13th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
The 2nd gen iPohne is the iTouch.
There will be no 2nd Gen iPohne.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
I think this is a lie.
April 5th, 2008 at 8:35 am
[...] Nano? I was browsing the interweb when I cam across an article that said "Apple iPhone Nano Plans Revealed It doesn’t seem to be the most reliable article but I figured I would post this to see what you [...]
June 4th, 2008 at 7:24 am
THIS IS WICKIFLY DUDE.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:26 am
This is a lie and even i can see that and i am a woodpecker
April 15th, 2009 at 5:59 am
How are you supposed to type on a keyboard if there is like no space?
Even if there were space, there wouldn’t be space to see the message you are typing, just the screen
May 27th, 2009 at 9:02 am
this is real, u can buy them on ebay, my sister jus bought one for £300.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:04 am
i have the orignial iphone an as i sed above my sis has the nano verison and its jus as easy 2 use the keyboard isnt as small as wha u wud think