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The iPhone that wasn't



It is Monday, and you know what that means! The iPhone is upon us. Much like Brian Lam of Gizmodo promised us, the iPhone is here and it isn't what you were expecting. Sure, we all knew that Apple doesn't hold the trademark for the iPhone, but that doesn't mean that Apple wouldn't release one of the most anticipated products of their history with a name they didn't own, on a Monday scant days before Christmas.

Oh, wait, that's right. The iPhone is a Linksys product and has nothing to do with the mythical iPhone much as Laurie predicted. So what does this tell us? Not much, other than Mac fans really like rumors, but we knew that already.

Anyway, iPhone isn't that great of a name to begin with. Apple has a great brand with iPod so I predict that if Apple introduces a phone it will be under the iPod brand, though that's a big if.


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It is Monday, and you know what that means! The iPhone is upon us. Much like Brian Lam of Gizmodo promised us, the iPhone is here and it...
 

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stalker

it will be the iMob surely?

December 19 2006 at 4:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel Rodriguez

"Anyway, iPhone isn't that great of a name to begin with. Apple has a great brand with iPod so I predict that if Apple introduces a phone it will be under the iPod brand, though that's a big if."

It's easy to say that now in retrospect!

December 19 2006 at 11:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DJRyRy

Ha Ha!

I work at Cisco... (sadly I have to use a Windows XP-based IBM Thinkpad which makes me miss my macs at home)... I've been laughing for awhile about all the "iPhone" junk that's been posted here because I've known for awhile that we owned the the name and were releasing a product with that name.

I wonder what bloggers are gonna call the product formally rumored to be the iPhone now...

December 19 2006 at 9:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James

Perhaps "iCall"

December 19 2006 at 3:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jason

could it be called the imobile? yeah, people have to stop using the name "iphone"...

December 18 2006 at 6:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
matthew

I'd like to see Apple call the new(?) mobile handset the Newton.

A strong argument can be made for doing just that.

December 18 2006 at 4:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel Cheung

Perhaps the Apple cellphone will be called "iPod Talk"?

December 18 2006 at 3:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Heelix

please stop being such drama-queens! everything was tong-in-cheek. sure he played on all the fanatics out there feeding and scouring the web for the latest rumor.

December 18 2006 at 3:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fernando

Say goodbye to my bookmarks gizmodo.

December 18 2006 at 3:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sam

Brian Lam is a douche. Gizmodo readers are leaving in droves, going to places that would rather report news than start sensationalist rumors for a few inbound links.

December 18 2006 at 2:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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