Before Macworld several stories ran on World of Apple referencing the iPhone nano, although it always seemed unlikely for the device to show up at Macworld the evidence was there and further evidence and rumours now point towards a mid-2009 release.
Digitimes has posted a report from Taiwan based Economic Daily News stating that two chip manufacturers are expected to receive orders for the "low cost, entry-level iPhone nano" from Apple.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and United Microelectronics Corporation are reported to be receiving the orders in March leading to a June release of the iPhone nano at the earliest.
In addition a TUAW.com tipster has sent in a screenshot which shows a device called "iPhone nano" which appeared in his iTunes Connect service which is used by App Store developers.
Finally analyst Brian Marshall for American Technology Research has written in a report that he believes the iPhone nano won't initially be released to the North American market. The analyst is reporting that according to "industry insiders" have reported that the device is not currently being tested by AT&T in its labs. US customers may have an indefinite wait according to the analyst.
"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.