Apple iPhone Trademark, Analyst Speculation

[fixyourthinking]

How to get out of cellphone contract once the iPhone is released

I wrote a guide on my blog about how to get out of a cellphone contract when the iPhone is released. Enjoy (if you care to):

http://fixyourthinking.com/2006/10/how-to-get-out-of-cell-phone-contract.html

 

[10layers]

Not only "far eastern" country, iPod trademark worldwide

See Apple filing for iPhone trademarks worldwide.

Apple has filed for trademarks in: the US, the UK, the EU, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and others.

 

[iMeowbot]

Apple has filed for trademarks in: the US, the UK, the EU, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and others.

Ocean was already noted here and here

Madrid Protocol designations also attached to the US application on file with WIPO: Antigua & Barbuda, Albania, Armenia , Netherlands Antilles, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Bhutan, Belarus, Cuba, Cyprus, Georgia, Croatia, Iran, Iceland, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Lesotho, Morocco, Monaco, Moldova, FYROM, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Romania, Sierra Leone, Syria, Swaziland, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Vietnam, [YU country code; probably Serbia], Zambia.

 

[asphalt-proof]

I have a Treo and I love the keyboard but I have a hard time believing that a keyboard on an Apple branded phone would look good. I have yet to see any PDA phone that looked good with a keyboard. It just looks clunky. Maybe Apple can do it right. But all those chicklet sized buttons just look like a crazed Bedazzler-wielding mom attacted an innocent cell phone.

 

[question fear]

I believe there will be an iphone, but I doubt it will be a smartphone right out of the gate.
Not to be too skeptical, but look at how long and how much R&D goes into current smartphones (especially qwerty ones). There were leaks for MONTHS before the E62, TMobile Dash, Blackberry Pearl, Treo 700p/W/750v/680, HTC StrTrK, etc all came out, because these things don't happen in a total vacuum...all that testing, it's hard to keep tongues from wagging and secret cameras from snapping. And people are certainly on the lookout, so it's not like Apple would fly under the radar.
A mobile OS smartphone has to stay connected to a server or connect quickly, multitask (at least enough to connect, etc while doing other things), sync efficiently with other computers (probably Macs and PCs), play nice with cellular-type things like texting and voicemail, and really just overall be stable while being super portable and able to function as a lightweight OS. It's definitely possible, and probable. BUT I think Apple will probably release a plainer iPhone first, probably running their mobile OS X, run out all the basic bugs that come from a phone, then release the smartphone version. The smartphone market is cutthroat, very competitive. It's better and more prudent for Apple to play the field and then come out swinging. Look at Motorola...they tried with the MPxx series, screwed up royally, pulled back and focused on their hardware, and then came out with a home run in the Q.

 

[question fear]

But all those chicklet sized buttons just look like a crazed Bedazzler-wielding mom attacted an innocent cell phone.

This was the funniest thing I've read all week.

I've been in insurance training, and in addition to financial people, there's been some, uh, "Desparate Housewives" getting their insurance licenses, and I'm picturing them passing around a poor phone and a bedazzler during class now.

 

[asphalt-proof]

This was the funniest thing I've read all week.

I've been in insurance training, and in addition to financial people, there's been some, uh, "Desparate Housewives" getting their insurance licenses, and I'm picturing them passing around a poor phone and a bedazzler during class now.

Thanks and you Location: Brighton/Brightoff is very clever. Had to read it twice to catch the play. Nice

 

[question fear]

Thanks and you Location: Brighton/Brightoff is very clever. Had to read it twice to catch the play. Nice

hehe, glad you caught it. I don't even live in Brighton anymore, nice reminder for me to change it...

Uh...on topic....
If Apple did jump into mobile phone smartphone world, do you think they'd maybe license Symbian, since of the established phone OSes it's the most flexible and customizable? They could pull a unix/OS X on the symbian OS, and since most of the US wouldn't know a symbian phone if it walked up to them, sucker punched them, screamed "SYMBIAN IS A RILLY GOOD OS" right into their ear and then left a calling card.

 

[jose fuertes s.]

ummm an iPhone, but what it will make this thing special, Design?, Os?, well one thing is for sure, Apple design things that are really kickin ass, iMacs, iPods, an such things. The OS, well it will be like the iPod OS (but definitely much better) on this iPhone, i dont think apple will put and minimal version of OS X on this iPhone... or could they?

 

[prady16]

I believe there will be an iphone, but I doubt it will be a smartphone right out of the gate.
Not to be too skeptical, but look at how long and how much R&D goes into current smartphones (especially qwerty ones). There were leaks for MONTHS before the E62, TMobile Dash, Blackberry Pearl, Treo 700p/W/750v/680, HTC StrTrK, etc all came out, because these things don't happen in a total vacuum...all that testing, it's hard to keep tongues from wagging and secret cameras from snapping. And people are certainly on the lookout, so it's not like Apple would fly under the radar.
A mobile OS smartphone has to stay connected to a server or connect quickly, multitask (at least enough to connect, etc while doing other things), sync efficiently with other computers (probably Macs and PCs), play nice with cellular-type things like texting and voicemail, and really just overall be stable while being super portable and able to function as a lightweight OS. It's definitely possible, and probable. BUT I think Apple will probably release a plainer iPhone first, probably running their mobile OS X, run out all the basic bugs that come from a phone, then release the smartphone version. The smartphone market is cutthroat, very competitive. It's better and more prudent for Apple to play the field and then come out swinging. Look at Motorola...they tried with the MPxx series, screwed up royally, pulled back and focused on their hardware, and then came out with a home run in the Q.

Sounds too logical. Isn't apple more about being 'radical' and 'practical'?
I think having 2 phones in their lineup would be awesome. And they could also sell software/cool apps for both the phones and make more money as well. Currently there is hardly any market for software sale for mobile phones. Maybe apple will change it!

 

[jose fuertes s.]

iHope Apple will make this phones with GSM technology, so everyone worldwide could have one.