December 26, 2006
Will The Real Slim iPhone Please Stand Up?
This should prove interesting. While Apple's going around trying to bully companies using a little "i" in front of their product names (because they own that letter, dontcha ya know), it appears they've been trumped by Linksys (which I didn't know was a division of Cisco). The name "iPhone" has apparently belonged to them since 1999 (though I can't find the reference).
Linksys has been introducing a range of Wi-Fi VoIP phones, but apparently the term iPhone is being used by them to represent all types of new phones that don't work together, according to Ted at MacVoIP. So Cisco's (or Linksys) has been holding the name for several years but just now, in December, announces phones under that brand, barely a month before Apple is expected to announce their phone, which will probably now be called the iPod phone.
By the way, the Linksys iPhone runs Skype. And the Apple iPod phone might have Jajah.
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