Apps, Mobile & SMS

Apple Ready To Produce iPhone Cell/Music Hybrid?

A cell phone that stores and plays music is the great dream of techies everywhere and the device that may create the final tipping point towards mass market acceptance of music as a download rather than physical purchase.

MotorolaSeveral cell phones particularly from Motorola have been touted as the next big thing ,but thus far none has lived up to the hype by combining ease of use as well as sufficient Applelogo_9 storage and fidelity in a small affordable package. That may be about to change if Apple enters the market with a much rumored iPod phone.  Pacific Rim tech blog Smarthouse and others are reporting that Apple has been actively shopping Taiwanese manufactures (some say even chosen one) to produce a device dubbed the iPhone. 

According to Smarthouse, Bill Shope of J.P Morgan believes Apple will introduce the phone by the fourth quarter.  Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told clients last week that he estimates there to be a 75% chance that we’ll seen an iPhone in the next 12 months.

Share on:

3 Comments

  1. confirmation news. (digitimes rarely wrong)
    http://www.digitimes.com/telecom/a20060331A8045.html
    Apple may launch own handsets, vendors in Taiwan market prepare
    Apple Computer may soon launch its own music handsets, leveraging the success of its iPod music players, said market sources, noting that Apple has contacted a number of Taiwan handset makers, including High Tech Computer, Inventec Appliances, Quanta Computer and Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) for possible cooperation in handset production.
    Handset makers declined to comment on the news.

Comments are closed.