Monday, December 4, 2006
Apple Computer sought patent protection for a device that may combine a mobile phone with its iPod music player as speculation intensified that the company may sell a so-called iPhone as soon as January.
In a patent application, made public today, Apple claims it developed a new casing for a wireless device that can operate as an iPod and a mobile phone. The application was filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in August, and is related to an application filed in July 2004.
Analysts have anticipated Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs will parlay the success of iPod into another line of products. Piper Jaffray Co.'s Gene Munster and Benjamin Reitzes of UBS AG said this week that Jobs may introduce an iPod merged with a phone at the company's MacWorld conference in January.
By: DocMemory
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