You’ve heard about. You’ve dreamed about it. Kevin Rose said on the Diggnation podcast a few weeks ago that it wasn’t as far away as you might think. Well it’s finally here! The iPhone is on the market, but it didn’t come from who we thought it would.
Last Monday, December 18, the highly talked about iPhone was released to the world…all seven of them. Surprisingly, it wasn’t Apple that brought it to us. Linksys is responsible for the phone that has been getting thumbs up so far. It toggles between Skype, Yahoo! Messenger (voice), VoIP, and regular landline services all with one button. There’s no sign of the awesome click wheel that we were expecting.So how is it that Linksys puts out the iPhone and not Apple? Well it’s simple. The iPhone name was registered in 1996 by a company called Infogear. Cisco Systems acquired Inforgear in 2000. They then acquired Linksys, a maker of consumer home networking products in 2003.
It’s a fact that Apple is still hard at work on their own phone, but they will have to call it something else. In my opinion, it doesn’t matter what Steve Jobs and Apple decide to call their phone when it releases. It will still probably be the best cell phone ever made.
Keep checking back here for more information and reviews on the iPhone as it becomes available.
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