“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,”Daniel Shen and Steve Shen reprot for DigiTimes. “Handset makers declined to comment on the news.”
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Sure, but will it be as cool as this one?
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AC, I think you summed this up quite nicely.
This is not news.
It’s barely a rumor.
It’s coming. It’s not coming. Yes it is. No. yes. no. yes …
err .. but then, maybe that’s what all the flash memory is for?
And MacRumors says no phone. I don’t know who to believe. Perhaps I need to email Steve Ballmer and get some brainwashing scheduled……
NAND Flash memory is for the iPod line. Although why Apple would need 20% of the NAND chips from their current vendor is beyond me. IPhone makes sense. Is the postponement of the iPhone merely a smmoke screen? We will see. Something better happen tomorrow after all this shit.
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An apple store employee told my mother yesterday to wait for saturday, when apple would “blow the Blackberry away.” I know personally that apple store employees know as much as I do about future apple products, (or they are damn good at being evasive about upcoming products), so this is very weird.
I’m not putting anything into it, but maybe apple needs to rein in its people. My mother thought she had a scoop for me. I think it’s irresponsible, like all rumor-mongering.
They delayed the launch. You know, like Windows Vista
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hey dave stevens… you mean this saturday….As in April 1st?
If “handset makers declined to comment on the news,” then how do they know Apple has contacted all the handset makers listed?
http://musobs.blogspot.com/
MDN word: told, as in market sources told this reporter that Apple was making an iPhone, but the reporter cannot verify these rumors.
Apple will have something “…that will blow the Blackberry away.” !#@?!#!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Dream on, Loozerz…
Since we all want that one magical device on our hips, or in our hip pocket, this rumor will always have legs.
I like to imagine hitting my home office server for anything…anywhere. VoIP when possible, and streaming nonsense at a finger’s whim.
The catch is in the ether, however. Wrestling the airwave mafia (Verizon, Sprint, Bells, Cingular) into a virtual network with some hope of seamless operation seems less likely than a five minute cell call without hassles.
“An apple store employee told my mother yesterday to wait for saturday, when apple would “blow the Blackberry away.”
Speculation by Apple retail people is strictly verbotten. What’s his name? I’ll forward it Apple legal lol . And yes, retail people know squat about future products.
Maybe some Easter eggs for OS X. Those were fun.
Every time an event comes up, so do the hot and heavy iPhone rumors.
How many times must people torture themselves with the same ever elusive dream?
Is this the History Channel?? I thought I clicked on MDN!
This shit is so old the phone has a dial on it! …..and a VCR battery!
Waste of bandwidth.
It’s a 600 gig, touchscreen, voip enabled, quad-core, triple-boot, video iPod. With ten first-run movies and unlimited free calls after six PM. And all day on saturday.
don’t forget that the battery lasts 1 year with out a recharge… oh and that its smaller than the nano
heh. Betcha nothin’ happens tomorrow. Tuesday. He likes Tuesdays.
Apple Computer may soon launch its own music handsets…
“Music handsets?” You don’t say? :p
The iPod Pequeno?