A few days ago on New Year’s Eve a viewer called in to Leo Laporte’s KFI Radio Show and claimed to know information about Apple’s supposedly-coming-soon phone. I’m refraining from using the popular term “iPhone” because it will more than likely NOT be called this as Cisco owns the patent for this term.
The caller, who said he was from Wichita, said that the only thing holding it back are carrier agreements (it is much rumored that Apple will announce it January 9-12 at MacWorld). Laporte’s site sums up the phone conversation as follows:
According to him, the phone will be CDMA for the higher bandwidth. It will have Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR. $275 and $335 will be the prices for the 4gb and 8gb models respectively. Also, there will some form of .Mac application suite on it. Moreover, zirconium will be the material that the phone is made out of. Zirconium is lighter than titanium. Finally, there will be a landline version as well. Voice recognition will play a bigger role and the name will not begin with an “i�.
I for one am pretty excited to see what Apple comes up with in the end. Although it doesn’t necessarily seem like Apple is doing anything spectacularly innovative with this upcoming product, it is a step in the right direction toward my desire to have an all-in-one-device.
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Sha-poopy.