No sooner was the rumor last week about a $99 4Gb iPhone at Wal-Mart posted around the web (including here), than it was swatted down by several other tech news sites. Ars Technica says that Bloomberg News got the straight poop: WallyWorld will be selling the same 8Gb iPhone as everybody else, but at their own price point a couple of bucks cheaper than Apple’s MSRP.
But don’t stop believin’ in Steven, because this morning Engadget found this story from a generally-reliable Mac rumor mill that shows a prototype of a smaller iPhone that could be one of the new product announcements from Steve Jobs’ keynote at the January MacWorld Expo. The smaller device is being touted as being branded the “iPhone Nano”, and the only difference between it and the existing 3G iPhone is size. THIS could actually turn out to be the $99 Wal-Mart iPhone…stay tuned for more rumor control…
(Oh, and speaking of oft-rumored-but-still-unseen products, Engadget also reports that the FCC has issued its technical approval for the Garmin Nuviphone I lust after, but that’s a whole different story.)
