Cisco’s iPhone underwhelms. Especially when I was hoping for an Apple device.

Link: Surprise iPhone launch – Phones & PDAs – Gadgets – Technology – theage.com.au

The much-anticipated iPhone has been released. Surprisingly, it has no music functions and it’s not an Apple product.

The phone that everyone was expecting Apple to bring out – a hybid iPod-mobile phone – was instead launched by Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems.

Cisco has owned the iPhone trademark since 2000 when it took over a company called Infogear, which had registered the name in 1996.

Apple was expected to launch its hybid phone at the Macworld trade show which begins on January 9.

Pffft.

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