The current meme, started by The Wall Street Journal, is that "Cingular Wireless, owned by AT&T Inc., will provide cellphone service to go with the phone" to be announced today.
The AP version of the story says:
Cingular, a unit of AT&T Inc., launched an Apple-related phone and MP3 player, called ROKR, in 2005. But the product was widely considered a flop because it could only hold 100 songs and it required users to buy songs through a computer and download the songs to the phone _ deficiencies a new phone from Apple would likely remedy.
Annual iPod revenue growth is approaching zero, and most phone suppliers already have music phones, so the general feeling is that this is an appropriate time to launch a PodPhone. (Cisco already has an iPhone.) All those people who bought an iPod, then probably an iPod with video, will be key targets for a third device....
