WSJ spills the beans!
"Apple, Cingular Set to Team Up on Cellphone
By Li Yuan and Nick Wingfield
Word Count: 392 | Companies Featured in This Article: Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Motorola, Yahoo
Cingular Wireless is expected to provide wireless service for a new Apple Computer Inc. cellphone, people familiar with the situation say.
The launch of the new phone and service is expected to be announced as early as Tuesday, these people say.
The new product could give Apple access to the huge wireless business, in which nearly a billion handsets are shipped every year, dwarfing the nearly 70 million iPods Apple has sold over the past five years.
Several recent ..."
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By Li Yuan and Nick Wingfield
Word Count: 392 | Companies Featured in This Article: Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Motorola, Yahoo
Cingular Wireless is expected to provide wireless service for a new Apple Computer Inc. cellphone, people familiar with the situation say.
The launch of the new phone and service is expected to be announced as early as Tuesday, these people say.
The new product could give Apple access to the huge wireless business, in which nearly a billion handsets are shipped every year, dwarfing the nearly 70 million iPods Apple has sold over the past five years.
Several recent ..."
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Comments
They don't know crap.
Don't be so sure. I was thinking earlier that I'm wondering when the next issue of Time magazine is supposed to come out and what Steve Jobs will be holding on the cover of it.
People with GSM worldwide will pay $$ for an unlocked phone!
or, Cingular can buy them aftermarket and resell them unlocked.
No, this is Steve's way!
Fight the Power!!
They don't know crap.
I agree. It doesn't seem likely that Apple would rely on someone else to provide a service that will reflect upon the quality of their own phone. This doesn't fit in their business plan. They like to provide turnkey solutions (this is evidenced in every product they have ever released).
But.... who knows?
Cingular can buy them aftermarket and resell them unlocked.
No, this is Steve's way!
Yeh, this would be a little closer to the way Apple would do business. They would want to open it up more to cater to a larger audience - Steve would not walk into a situation that would shackle and restrain the use and success of his/Apple's product.
If there is any truth to this article, there is something that they are missing. The picture is not completely painted as the WSJ reports it.
Yeh, this would be a little closer to the way Apple would do business. They would want to open it up more to cater to a larger audience - Steve would not walk into a situation that would shackle and restrain the use and success of his/Apple's product.
Plus, GSM networks have miserable voice quality. Hardly a desirable attribute for a product intended to be luxury.
Nuff said. Unlocked phone. Probably with Voip and Wifi. Apple will have none of it.
Unless they are a MVNO which I think risky but who knows, Apple and Steve have been known to take risks.
Plus, GSM networks have miserable voice quality. Hardly a desirable attribute for a product intended to be luxury.
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Er... where did this come from?
They don't know crap.
and with only hours to go thats exactly what i think... let the goodness wash over us
They don't know crap.
SpamSandwich don't know crap.
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Er... where did this come from?
comparison with non-gsm phones, as well as math. It's actually kind of surprising that GSM voice signalling still exists: everyone was supposed to have adapted to various CDMA-based technologies by now.
In the states at least, people using Cingular and T-mobile sound very tinny and noisy. Using a land-line reference, it's pretty easy to tell who's using GSM and who's not. Honestly, I think GSM only exists still because Qualcomm holds all of their technologies too close for them to be commoditized as easily.