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Steven Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer, is expected to unveil an Apple phone representing his company's new mobile communications strategy — highlighted by a device that may include Jobs-inspired refinements like a sleek ceramic case and a transparent touch screen.
Industry executives and competitors say that Apple has developed the first of the next generation of devices that are closer to personal computers in pocket form, meaning that they will easily handle music, entertainment, productivity tasks and communications on cellular and other wireless networks.
Jobs has been rumored to have entered into an alliance with Cingular.
Recently, he told two associates, who asked not to be identified to avoid damaging their relationship with him, that he was more excited about his current project than he was about the Macintosh.
"Yahoo and Motorola join the fight" Article
Zander showed off new Motorola mobile telephones that will have the software built in and a one-click access design for easily connecting to the Internet.
"I've been using it," Zander told reporters at the press conference. "I'm a convert."
Yahoo has formed alliances with mobile telephone service carriers around the world to use the "oneSearch" service to make using the Internet on the move as easy as working from a desktop computer, Boerries said. "It is truly the Internet in your pocket,"
Search titan Google and South Korean electronics giant Samsung also used the Consumer Electronics Show to announce a similar alliance on Monday.
Samsung mobile telephones equipped with Google software applications will enable users worldwide to search the Internet, check e-mail, and map routes, according to the companies.
Edited by Rogerdodger, 08 January 2007 - 10:07 PM.
That's MY phone.
It rings when someone is calling.
Whooda thought?
