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Apple's Smart Phone Depends on OS X Tie-Ins

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the steve-jobs-hard-to-shop-for dept.

anaesthetica writes "According to AppleInsider, Apple is not only working on a cellphone + mp3 player iPhone, but is working on a second model designed to be a smart phone, highly integrated with Mac OS and .Mac. The smart phone has gone through several iterations, as the notoriously demanding Mr. Jobs ordered the elite team working on the phone to redesign and re-engineer their prototypes. Capabilities are reported to include Front Row interface, syncing contacts and iCal with .Mac, "call ahead", iChat video conferencing integration, WiFi, and a slide-out keyboard. Too good to be true?"

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  1. Verizon iPodphonelookalike by netsfr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Last night I saw a TV spot from Verizon with their new phone that looks a lot like an iPod in its white version... If it just had the little apple logo on it somewhere I could confuse it with an iCellPod.

  2. Keeping up. by tinymarc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ha... bah. Pffff...

  3. PowerPC? by General+Lee's+Peking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone know if that phone would likely use a PowerPC? If that's the case, it's interesting to me that they haven't really left that world yet, and may never. It's lucky for them they had a 80x86 port of Mac OS X available for the desktop. It may be just as lucky that they have a PowerPC port available for the cellular phone. That is, if ``luck'' is really the word for all that.