Apple signals iPhone to come in early '07

Apple signals iPhone to come in early '07: "Apple Computer Inc., known for its secrecy about new products, has given the strongest signal yet it's working on an iPod phone that analysts said could be released early next year.
'We don't think that the phones that are available today make the best music players -- we think the iPod is,' Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said in a conference call Wednesday. 'But over time that is likely to change, and we're not sitting around doing nothing.'"

That would be a fun "co-opetition" case study -- I suspect it would, for example, help Microsoft's mobile/wireless platform business...