Cingular kicking rear and taking names for iPhone

[wraggster]

via engadget



The bad news: in case you haven't heard, the iPhone's still a few months off yet (boo!). The good news: Cingular is more than happy to take down your 411 right now and you'll be "among the first" -- along with virtually every Internet-enabled citizen in the world -- to hear when it hits (yay!). Contain youselves, folks, and continue to use your indoor voices, please; there's really nothing new here. Big Orange's signup page looks pretty stock, and we wouldn't be terribly surprised if it'd been cobbled together only after actually finding out yesterday just what it was it signed up to exclusively offer along with everyone else. We've also managed to score Cingular's iPhone announcement for business customers; its similarly unrevealing, though it does make note that Apple has banned Cingular from offering discounts on the most important consumer device ever iPhone to business customers. Sorry, Premier customers, but not much of a surprise there.

[steve-b]

don't cisco/linksys already have a product called iPhone? hmm. That could get interesting.

[bandit]

I think Apple bought the name off of them.

*EDIT*
Nevermind, they are now being sued by Cisco.

[emuking]

I think Apple bought the name off of them.

*EDIT*
Nevermind, they are now being sued by Cisco.

no they are not, they had an agreement with cisco so now they could use the name as long as they dont go in to the voip service with iphone