14 DAY TRIAL // Countless articles have been written on the subject of the Apple phone and there have been lots and lots of mock-ups of how it will end up looking in the final stage.
But no one is capable of telling for sure if this handset actually exists or if it is a candybar, a slider, a clamshell or whatever form factor one may think of.
But some of us do have some insight into the biggest Apple secret of all times, a secret that can only be revealed by Steve Jobs or one of his trusted friends (a thing that hasn't happened until now though).
The ones that have launched a more believable rumor regarding Apple's phone are the sources of the Wall Street Journal and they have said the phone developed by the "fruit" company is going to be available on Cingular Wireless.
This doesn't exactly fit the previous rumors about it that said it is going to be a GSM/CDMA device but now, we find out the so called iPhone will only have a GSM version (for Cingular).
But there is a bright side to this because running on Cingular also means the handset might end up having some sort of HSPDA capability that will probably come together with video calling possibilities and high speed data.
Nobody knows yet what is going to happen next in the Apple phone saga but, as people say, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs will most probably announce the new phone on its Tuesday CES 2007 keynote.
Even if this won't happen now, in the end they will most surely launch it and the iPod/Apple phone will most probably be a stronger reason for the other mobile phone manufacturers to make better phones able to compete with what Apple is set to launch some day in the future.
As the Wall Street Journal says, "Cingular Wireless is expected to provide wireless service for a new Apple Computer Inc. cellphone, people familiar with the situation say. The launch of the new phone and service is expected to be announced as early as Tuesday, these people say. The new product could give Apple access to the huge wireless business, in which nearly a billion handsets are shipped every year, dwarfing the nearly 70 million iPods Apple has sold over the past five years."