What I mean by this is that there is just one iphone phone. It’s big, black (sometimes white), has a 3.5inch touch screen and for lots of people it’s just not what they want.

That’s why other phone manufacturers make lots of different handsets. They know that some people want a candy bar phone, some want a messenger with a QWERTY keyboard and others want a large 3.5 inch touchscreen. Hey, some people even want a touch screen and keyboard.

Before I continue I know the fanboys will say “But why would you want anything else? It’s perfect”. Well that is the answer I’ve come to expect from your typical iphone advocate.  It seems that if the iphone doesn’t do it you don’t want it. If the iphone does do it then Apple got there first and everyone else is copying them. I will simply counter that by saying that one size does not fit all. No matter how hard you try to stuff an elephant into a telephone box. It’s never going to fit. People want flexibility and choice.

Apple don’t want to expand their range and we all know why. It means work, lots more work. You would need to more than double the amount of people employed in design, engineering and manufacturing. It means they would have to become … a phone maker.

The concept of an iphone nano or shuffle is nothing new and people have either been predicting them or doing some creative designs for them ever since the iphone first came out.

Here’s some of the most interesting fan designs:

If Apple were to listen and either make a line up of iphones or license out the platform to hardware manufacturers what format phone would you like to see?

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