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**rixride** · 01-09-2007, 02:37 PM

Apple hails phone 'breakthrough'

Delegates screamed when the iPhone was announced

Apple has unveiled its long-awaited mobile phone, promising to revolutionise the handset market. The device, a combined widescreen iPod, mobile phone and internet communicator, is just 11.6mm wide, with a touch screen and no button.
It will allow users to play music from iTunes and take photos.
Also revealed at the annual Macworld Expo was Apple TV, a device to stream music and movies from a computer to the living room.
Apple founder Steve Jobs told delegates at MacWorld in San Francisco: "Apple has reinvented the phone."
Details about pricing and availability were not available but the phone will use the network of AT&T's mobile unit, Cingular.
The phone, which will run Apple's OS X operating system, includes a 2 megapixel camera and 8 gigabytes of storage.
Apple shares were up 3% on the announcement.
Intel success
In a keynote speech, attended by more than 2,000 people, Mr Jobs spent the first 10 minutes praising the move to Intel chips.
He said more than half of Mac sales were to people who had never owned a Mac before.
There were statistics about iPods and iTunes, including the claim that iPods had become the world's most popular video player and that iTunes had passed the two billion milestone.
The move to offer movies via iPods seems to have paid dividends. More than 1.3 million movies were sold in the first four months of the partnership with Disney.
A new partner - Paramount - was also announced and other movie studios are expected to join soon.

***JulianW*** · 01-10-2007, 03:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rixride

Details about pricing and availability were not available

The report I just read had this in it:

Quote:

The phone, which will cost from $499 (£257) to $599, will be launched in the US in June and Europe later this year.

Now I'm confused.

***JulianW*** · 01-11-2007, 03:23 AM

Cisco Systems is suing Apple Computer for trademark infringement in a US federal court, for using the iPhone name. Apple launched its new handheld device under the iPhone name on Tuesday, at the Macworld event in San Francisco.
Following the launch Cisco said it hoped to resolve the matter by Tuesday evening after negotiations.
Apple responded by saying the lawsuit was "silly" and that Cisco's trademark registration was "tenuous at best".
"We think Cisco's trademark lawsuit is silly," Apple spokesman Alan Hely said. "There are already several companies using the name iPhone for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) products."
"We are the first company to ever use the iPhone name for a cell phone, and if Cisco wants to challenge us on it we are very confident we will prevail."
Cisco, which has owned the trademark since 2000, said it thought Apple would agree to a final document and public statement regarding the trademark.
"Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," said Mark Chandler, Cisco senior vice-president and general counsel, in a statement.
The firm has owned the name since it bought Infogear Technology in 2000, which registered the name.
Infogear had previously used the name for several years, said Cisco.
Cisco, which supplies networks, said it would seek to stop Apple from "infringing upon and deliberately copying and using" the trademark.
Jon Noh, a spokesperson for Cisco told the BBC: "This issue is not about money, and it's not about the phone itself; it is about Cisco's obligation to protect its trademark in the face of Apple using it without our permission."
Cisco's Linksys arm has employed the trademark since early 2006, and in December it launched its own phone, capable of connecting to the internet, called the iPhone.
News of Apple's launch of its touch screen has been long awaited and Steve Jobs, the firm's head, said the phone would revolutionise the market.
Shares in Apple were 1.3% lower in after-hours trade, having risen 8% after the phone was launched a day earlier.

Spitfire66 · 01-11-2007, 03:48 AM

Ive heard its pants

**rixride** · 01-11-2007, 08:50 AM

That actually looks really cool!

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