The mini iphone relies heavily on cloud storage

News of the mysterious new machine began to be tapped by various media outlets since Bloomberg unveiled Apple's plan to launch a cheap mini iphone last week. After the Wall Street Journal reported earlier today that the mini iphone had a borderless screen, Cult's Mac website also claimed that it had been told that Apple would reduce the cost by reducing the use of flash memory in the mini iphone and relying heavily on the network cloud storage model.

Flash memory is the most expensive of the iphone's hardware costs, and the iphone 4 's flash cost accounts for almost one-fourth of the total cost. In the Low-cost version of the iphone, Apple is said to have almost completely abandoned its flash memory, leaving only enough storage space to be used as a cloud storage streaming media cache. This pattern is similar to the current Apple TV. The new Apple TV only has a 8GB flash memory as a streaming media cache compared to its built-in hard disk model, and users simply cannot use the Flash space to store content.

While the iphone's abandonment of flash sounds magical, it is consistent with the MobileMe update reported in the previous Wall Street Journal. It is said that Apple will launch the mini-version of the iphone while launching a new version of the MobileMe cloud storage services, the previous annual fee of 99 dollars of services to be free to provide, and will be provided by the original mail push, Address Book/calendar synchronization, network albums, network storage features, based on Increase the streaming media access capabilities of the user's itunes AV music. iphone users do not need to connect to the PC each time to sync content, just through the network directly access to their own purchased songs or movies/videos, streaming media format can be played. So, as long as the 3G network is strong enough, the mini iphone discards the flash-Reliance MobileMe cloud storage service seems to be feasible.