Apple and Motorola who have teamed before to produce the Macintosh Computer are eyeing working together to produce a phone that doubles as an iPod, or is it an iPod that doubles as a phone?

Business Week: Lots of iPod/Tunes Phones in the Works
The Mac Observer

Apple Computer and Motorola intend on announcing a variety of new mobile phones with iPod/iTunes capabilities over the next year, according to a published report by Business Week magazine.

The magazine said the range of phones will include low end and high end phones available "before Christmas", and that the first phone out of the joint venture will reach the market by the end of July in the U.S. The report also gives credence to reports that U.S. cellular carrier Cingular will sell the product.

The report said all the three companies "have much to gain" from the partnership" and that the move "could help them take the pole position in a promising new market -- delivering digital music to cell phones, a device that has become the center of the digital lifestyle for millions of people around the world." More...

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