Apple is going to offer voice service sooner or later. Even if the writing weren’t on the wall, it would almost be derelict of the mobile device king to not enter the voice business.
It seems that Apple agrees, even if the computer and mobile media giant won’t say so publicly. This item from the San Jose Mercury News just adds to the pile of clues that Apple will enter the mobile phone business. It describes Apple’s patent filing for a mobile wireless device.
The patent filing goes into great detail describing a hypothetical mobile device. It could have an Internet browser that connects with a cellular or wireless Internet network, such as WiFi; it could contain speakers, a microphone, headphone jack, USB port, flash memory or Bluetooth, according to the filing.
One caution however: Apple could develop a wireless mobile device that doesn’t do voice service. The patent application seems to focus on functionality that allows users to mark media content for later downloads, not exactly a voice-related application.
Cynthia Brumfield at 3:42 PM|Comments(0)
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