[Ti] OT: iPhone - shock ?

[Tarik Bilgin]

On 19 Dec 2006, at 21:13, rob morris wrote:

>
> No, not really Trevor.  It is common knowledge that Apple has owned  
> the
> iphone.org domain, but CISCO has had the iPhone trademark for over  
> 10 years
> now.  They decided to partner with linksys to produce the new  
> phone.   It
> has been media sources that referred to the "upcoming apple phone  
> device" as
> the iPhone, not apple.  It will have another, probably better  
> name.  The "I"
> stuff is really getting a bit stale anyway.
> Apple did file for iPhone t-marks in other countries though.
> But it has been generally known inside certain circles that the iPhone
> moniker would/will not be used for apple's new phone device.
>

What bothers me about the Apple iPhone product is that the telephony  
side of it is a bit weak. It supports EDGE for data access at best,  
not even a 3g technology. This is going to make using it for web  
browsing painfully slow.

The cynical in one might say that this is done intentionally to  
prevent Cingular from taking a decent cut from iTunes music store  
purchases via the phone since they will be inconveniently slow.

I hope that Apple have a proper 3g phone in the works, and that it  
supports some kind of VOIP gateway (e.g. SIP) like my Nokia E60 does,  
allowing me to make voip landline calls from anywhere that I have a  
802.11 wireless connection.

This seems to be a recent trend with Apple. They focus too much on  
the casual iPod users and not enough on the people who use their  
products for more than just leisure.

As for the trademarking issue...well I really couldn't care less. And  
I don't think the market will either.

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Tarik