Dropping the 8GB iPhone to $399 should put to rest all of those rumors about an iPhone nano. Of course, Apple could be cooking one up right now to further fill the pants of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola, but it seems like too much. Apple is very strict about feature set and price points. An iPhone nano would confuse the hell out of the whole lineup, and it likely wouldn't be much more than a phone, albeit one with a much sleeker interface. When the iPod touch replaces the iPod classic (more on that in another post), the handheld device lineup will be just right.
News today says that Palm and Motorola are now on the defensive after this price cut. Good. Both brands are as boring as the Dell under your desk.
Palm has essentially become another slave to Microsoft, and they'll likely finally die if Microsoft buys RIM. Yes, having a physical keyboard is a slight plus, but when the next generation of iPhones sport a tactile feedback display and possibly some sportier improvements to the interface, physical keyboards aren't going to look so great. Palm is just Dell in your hand, owned by boring suits and supported by boring IT departments.
Motorola continues to show the world how completely irrelevant they are. Motorola is a joke. Their phones are terrible. For all the hoopla of the RAZR, it's just a slimmer, sleeker version of phones that came before. Motorola is the best example of the worst of old school telecom. It has decided to rest on a dated product in favor of maintaining a bloated organization with groups that compete each other and vie for power on a daily basis. That Motorola continues to exist is a testament to how stupid and slow their telco clients are.
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