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Im pretty sure that Cisco is suing Apple, over this new toy, dunno what the details are of yet. But its in the hands of the lawyers.

 

 

The BBC reported on this earlier today.

 

 

It seemed like a decent idea but in reality it's going to be quite expensive, aren't they insisting on 18 month phone contracts in the US as well as the cost of the device itself?

 

I was hoping it would be a standalone device that you could put your existing SIM into, £300 for that with an 8GB disk and they would have cleaned up.

 

I'll stick to a PDA phone with a big memory card I think, I don't need to be fashionable.

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its about time someone made a touch screen phone (as in not having any buttons to dial with). cant believe it wasnt done years ago.

 

(hides in corner waiting for someone to prove me wrong)

 

There is one already, can't remember the make, but my friend has one.

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its about time someone made a touch screen phone (as in not having any buttons to dial with). cant believe it wasnt done years ago.

 

My XDA IIi (and other XDA type phones) have offered this for a while, no doubt Apple will call it iDial and make it sound as if they have come up with something clever though :)

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Cisco Sues Apple for Trademark Infringement Suit Filed to Protect

Cisco's iPhone® Trademark SAN JOSE, Calif., January 10, 2007 -

Cisco® today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United

States District Court for the Northern District of California against

Apple, Inc., seeking to prevent Apple from infringing upon and

deliberately copying and using Cisco's registered iPhone trademark.

 

Cisco obtained the iPhone trademark in 2000 after completing the

acquisition of Infogear, which previously owned the mark and sold iPhone

products for several years. Infogear's original filing for the trademark

dates to March 20, 1996. Linksys, a division of Cisco, has been shipping

a new family of iPhone products since early last year. On Dec. 18,

Linksys expanded the iPhone® family with additional products.

 

"Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple

repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," said Mark

Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel, Cisco. "There is no

doubt that Apple's new phone is very exciting, but they should not be

using our trademark without our permission.

 

"Today's iPhone is not tomorrow's iPhone. The potential for convergence

of the home phone, cell phone, work phone and PC is limitless, which is

why it is so important for us to protect our brand," Chandler concluded.

 

With its lawsuit, Cisco is seeking injunctive relief to prevent Apple

from copying Cisco's iPhone trademark. For more information on the Cisco

iPhone product line, please visit http://www.linksys.com/iphone.

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its about time someone made a touch screen phone (as in not having any buttons to dial with). cant believe it wasnt done years ago.

 

(hides in corner waiting for someone to prove me wrong)

 

Nokia made one, The Nokia 7710: marks out of 10 for it though 1/10 me and Ash both had it. we now have the E61 much better

 

move along nothing to see here ;)

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