Ehh, I don't think they would call it the iPod Mobile. They need a name that completely separates itself from the iPod device line. iComm, or something like that. Who knows.

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Next on Jobs' agenda: buy Cisco

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It's very arrogant for Apple to just nick the name like that without finalising the paperwork first.

I'm not suprised Cisco are suing.

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What about "Apple Phone"?

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So, what are the chances of Apple winning?

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of course not. Apple will just pay them off.

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Just call it the Apple phone. iTV is already known as the Apple tv.

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i guess it would be , iMobile or Apple Mobile.

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It seems to me that Cisco pretty much has their hands tied, for better or worse. The iPhone was the iPhone before it even existed!

Cisco isn't trademark-squatting since it had the rights since before even the iPod, but there's not much they can do now it seems. Hopefully they can at least sell the rights to Apple and rightfully make a few bucks off of it.

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ahhh.... brinksmanship ... negotiation on a razors edge.

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While they may end up renaming it - Apple may actually have some type of case against Cisco here. They played to the iProduct name of which all of Apple's products are named after - and I'd bet a great lawyer could sue them back for misrepresenting an Apple product.

Ok I don't bet that, but you see where I'm going here.

My moneys on iComm.
Almost sounds dirty.

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Heck who cares if Cisco sue now that the name is out there everyone will still call the device an iPhone. Maybe they should change it to HiPhone :-)

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Not to beat a dead horse, but call it the Newton.

Apple still owns the rights to Newton tm, the URL, etc. Besides, those of us who used the Newton see the several similarities: the bezel, the icons, etc.

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@#2. I hope that is a joke. Cicsco is a quite larger company than Apple. Ciscos sales last year were 30 Billion compared to Apple 19, and profit was 5.9 Bil to 2 Bil. Cisco assets are 45 Bil to 17 Bil. Those are considerable differences. If Apple wants to play hardball, Cisco can definately afford to.

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Breaking news: Apple Inc. has announced a nationwide contest to rename its new iPhone. The winner will be picked randomly from a rotating barrel of postcard entries by Steve himself at the next media event. The winner to receive a new Beatles commemorative iPod.

In a related story, Cisco has renamed itself 'iCisco'.

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I think phone is the most likely choice at this point if they can't use iPhone.

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Its still an iPod so it should be called as such. So iPod + something...

or maybe we could call it "Spawn of Newton"

no?

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Rats.

Oh well. What's in a name?

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For more flavor on this suit and why, please view our SVP and General Counsel Mark Chandler’s blog entry on this issue at: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/2007/01/update_on_ciscos_iphone_tradem.html

He states, in part, “this is not a suit against Apple’s innovation, their modern design, or their cool phone. It is not a suit about money or royalties. This is a suit about trademark infringement.”

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What about iMobile? is that taken??

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