Apple is not making a smaller iPhone, but it is considering ways to drop the price on the device and add voice controls in order to broaden its appeal, according to the New York Times.
At this point, Apple engineers are primarily focused on the next version of the iPhone, which is expected to be released this summer. Producing a smaller iPhone could be a challenge because it wouldn't be any cheaper to produce, it would be harder to operate, and developers would have to re-write apps for the smaller screen, the Times said.
Apple does, however, want to simplify voice commands for people who don't love the touch-screen keyboard. It is also looking into switching out components to lower costs, sources told the Times.
"Although the innards of the phone, including memory size or camera quality, could change to offer a less expensive model, the size of the device would not vary," the sources said.
This comes after Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was prepping a smaller, cheaper iPhone that would be added to the existing line of iPhones and would be about half the price. Of course, Digitimes recently said that Apple was exploring an iPhone with a bigger screen, so there's an iPhone rumor to suit everyone's tastes.