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a little too early for a cheaper version of iphone. the touch screens are probably for a touch-screen version of iPod, especially at that price range.

Don't forget, the first generation iphones will command an ever increasing price just as the first imac, cube, anglepoise imac, The less made, the greater the value they will gain in years to come.

Don't forget to keep the packaging intact with all the instruction manuals et al!

i beleived it until they said 249-299 price range.

Of course there will be many, many iPhone models for everyone. No doubt about it. The question is only when...
Apple will hit hard...

I need my iPhone Shuffle? (Calls to your Mom/Dad randomly to keep her/him happy and excludes words like money and no out of the discussion)

MDN Magic Word: period as in period.

Ranges are 59-99,100-199,200-399,400-599,600-1999?

These rumors from the Chinese manufacturers are notoriously inaccurate, so take it with a boulder-sized piece of salt, folks.

The Crabapple has left the building!

Smells like a planted, false story from the competition to slow sales of the present iPhone.

its called the video ipod folks... NOT 2nd gen iphone

I've thought about keeping my iPhone in the box and never opening it. To see what they go for in 10 years NIB w/dead battery.

Yup, if anything it's for iPod. In time for a holiday release?

iPods on track for a Christmas release! Yeee haw!

Wow, never knew Apple was so dumb! I mean, here they have triple-lock security about their future plans with hardly anybody getting a peep - and out there in Taiwan, the whole world knows what Apple is doing next!

I'm putting a sell on Apple, the manufacturers of the iPhone!
- Laura Coldbroom

too right, tt. The next iPods will have this technology sans phone, for the rest of us who don't want to enrich AT&T;.

How would a chinese producer of touch screens know about Apple's retail price? I say: bullshit...

Could this be for no-data plans?

The only delay has been caused by Apple insisting they change their name from Wintek to Mactek.

@ Abdullah -

Or, this might be completely on purpose. iPhone has been getting all the press lately, maybe Apple wants to get the buzz going for the next gen. iPod.

Sounds pretty reasonable to me.

It is great to see that an Apple phone for those that don't drive Porche or Ferraris.

But when will Mac Daily News report on the ongoing wifi problems with the iphone? Duke University is screaming at Apple because their iphone is pounding access points because it selects a bad router address. While Cisco is helping with the problem, good 'ole Apple hasn't even returned an email. According to Duke:

"I don't believe it’s a Cisco problem in any way, shape, or form," Miller said, adding that so far communications with Apple have been "one-way."

So, there is a big wifi problem in the iphone and sites like this are burying the problem so corporate network engineers won't know where to look. As so many others have said, this product is not ready for the corporate market and pretending that there are no problems or issues is a good way to crash your network. Who cares if this happens to an individual? Crash your network all day. But to companies that need to make money or universities, this is a catastrophe.

Until Apple comes clean with the problem and a solution, companies need to stay far away from the iphone.

@Win (Mac) Realist

nice try! Clearly you can only read a few lines at a time.

Everyone, including current and former CISCO engineers are saying it's a DUKE config problem, with their CISCO routers. The iPhone, as cool as it is, isn't capable of generating the thousands of IP calls their talking about.

If it was an iPhone issue, with the millions sold we'd be hearing screaming left and right, up and down the continent.

@ Mac Realist

Stop trollin'

it's boring

@M@c

That's a possibility, but I think highly unlikely.

Firstly, it is too soon for Apple to be shifting focus away from the iPhone and back towards the iPod. The iPhone has barely been released in the U.S., and is still not released anywhere else. So why would Apple want to pour cold water on its latest and arguably most important offering?

Let us remember that a wildly successful launch is just a good start - the iPhone needs to become a steady, consistent seller at all times. It doesn't seem sensible for Apple, of all people, to try and shift attention away from it at this point, especially since the iPod really doesn't need any kind of pre-release buzz to become a best-seller each time a new version is released.

But more importantly, it seems that is simply not the way Apple does business. It is notoriously secretive - and I would think the Taiwan parts makers (or any other manufacturers for Apple parts) would have been told in no uncertain terms that any info leak would lead to an immediate loss of what must be a very lucrative contract.

I think we also need to look at these reports in the Taiwan context - how the media works there, how much of what they report for domestic consumption is expected to be the whole truth and nothing but.

Maybe speculation about Apple products sells papers there.