There’s been speculation that an iPhone Nano will be released sooner or later since the first generation iPhone released. Digitimes highlights a report from the Economic Daily News that two chip manufactures, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will likely land orders for Apple’s low-cost entry-level iPhone nano.

According the the paper, the chip orders may come in March and the launch of Apple’s iPhone nano is expected to take place in June this year at the earliest.

However, American Technology Research analyst Brian Marshall believes the iPhone Nano (if ever released) will not be initially launched in the United States. Brian Marshall states the iPhone Nano hasn’t hit the AT&T testing lab for testing so US consumers may have to wait indefinitely. Marshall also believes China may be the ideal place to initially release the iPhone Nano.

“Obviously, the best-case scenario here would be a China launch (~600mil+ wireless subscribers total in the country), but we have no definitive knowledge of this and are working on identifying the local of launch and other pertinent details,” he said.

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