Apple iPhone Rumors

The rumor about Apple’s iPhone has started again after Forbes reported that the Cupertino company has ordered 12m mobile handsets to Hon Hai Precision Industry, a Taiwan Source company.

The main source of this information is a Chinese newspaper, theCommercial Times.
The Commercial Times didn’t revelead the financial details of the contract, but it said that Apple will launch the mobile phone in the first half of next year.

The first rumors about an iPhone, based on the iPod design and compatible with iTunes, have started at the beginning of this year. On January 5, Apple made a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the phrase "Mobile Me" for use in a wide range of businesses. This move was just the start for speculation that Apple could introduce an iPod phone.

The areas that the trademark covers include computing devices, mobile devices, and mobile services including digital music, video, games, e-mail, and messaging across Internet, intranets, extranets, television, cellular, and satellite networks, the filing shows. In one application, Apple’s "Mobile Me" would apply to "mobile telephone communications services" and "telecommunication services for the dissemination of information by mobile telephone, namely the transmission of data to mobile telephones."

In October, the iPhone has come again into the spotlight, after a research analyst from Prudential Equity Group, Jesse Tortora, said that his checks indicate that Apple may launch not one, but two cell phones, as soon as January 2007.

At the time, Tortora said that one model will be a smart phone, including integrated keyboard, video and music capability, while the other model will be a slimmer phone with just music functionality.