Apple iPhone nano conceptNow that they can’t drop cryptic hints about the iPhone’s existence, analysts are moving on to the next predicted phase in Apple’s master plan: a nano-based cellphone.  Kevin Chang, an analyst with JP Morgan, has quoted anonymous sources in the Apple hardware supply chain as well as pointing to recently-revealed patents for iPod-like devices with multiple functions and a touch-sensitive scrollwheel.

“We believe that iPod Nano will be converted into a phone considering it’s probably the only way




for Apple to launch a lower end phone without severely cannibalizing iPod Nano” Kevin Chang

He’s not the only one expecting big things; rival firm Piper Jaffray pushed analyst Gene Munster blinking into the light to clue us in on their expectation of a touchscreen-based iPod, media-dedicated unlike the iPhone, which would go some way to prevent the cellphone eating into PMP sales.

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