I’ve heard a lot about the Nano and I’m looking forward to seeing the fruits of Apple’s labour.

I’ve been highly frustrated with the fact that the iPhone is completely 100% out of the league of most normobs. In fact, the anecdotal research I’ve been doing recently is pretty horrific with the summary being:

Love the iPhone. Won’t even consider it.

Instead, the majority of PAYG users I spoke with are thinking very carefully about spending £19 on a handset, let alone £299 for the iPhone 3G.

An iPhone Nano — with iTunes, a few gig of storage and a £99 followed by £49 price tag…

Is that possible?

I wonder.

Eric, the author, goes on to answer the ‘mass market’ issue we talked about yesterday. Our man at the Google Developer Conference wasn’t entirely sold on the incentive to push mobile operators to adopt Android handsets. Eric points out that the idea behind Android is that operators should do their own front-ends, or their own ‘frosting of the cake’, as Eric put it.

That’s definitely one strategy. It certainly depends on the entrepreneurial vision of the operator.

The HTC Dream is apparently set to go live on the 23rd of September at an NY press conference; and it should hit stores by mid October (17th or thereabouts).

Interesting, interesting…