The "iPhone" is NOT, repeat, NOT from Apple

Posted Dec 18, 2006 at 5:05PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Tags: Cisco, iPhone, Linksys
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Yes, it says iPhone. No, it's not from Apple. No, we are NOT kidding.


Perhaps when Apple gone and patented "-pod," they should have gone and patented the "i-" prefix once and for all. Because according to Gizmodo, there IS an iPhone out and announced. And it's not from Apple (Which means we just lost a bet. We were betting on "iPhone" in a previous article. Dang, there goes this writer's wages for the week).

It's the Linksys iPhone, with the "iPhone" trademark owned (or pwned) by Linksys parent company Cisco Systems. Looking at Linksys' press release, iPhone is their family of VoIP-enabled wireless phones. The Wireless-G IP Phone, in particular, also combines features normally found in cell phones including media streaming from the Internet.

Yeah, of course, if you're an Applephile who's been eagerly waiting for news on the iPhone, all of this Gadgets-related talk is blah-blah yada-yada without the trademark Apple logo somewhere in there. Well, whatever the Apple cellular phone will be, it won't be called the iPhone, that's for sure.

Which now launches the great debate/contest/discussion in Macworld today: what do YOU think Apple will call the iPhone? Because sure as heck, iPhone's been taken (The other alternative doesn't bear much thinking: what if there's no Apple phone at all? What would all the speculators think?).

 
 
 

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by kdabney69 - 2006-12-18 16:23
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lol that sucks, i think it should be called iCell or sumthing like that

by salimdao - 2006-12-18 18:31
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maybe iCall or iTalk or something. iPhone is a better name though. damn.

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