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Apple heads for new carrier collision

13. May 2006, 0:01 Uhradmin

The US Patent and Trademark Office has published two patent applications today which offer some clue to the future shape of the iPod, and also Apple’s ambitions as a digital media distributor. As well as an intriguing glimpse of what a wireless iPod could do, it potentially sets Apple on a collision course with the major cellular phone networks.

Patent application (#20060095339), filed 18 months ago, describes an iPod that’s fully wireless enabled - but envisages it as a portable shopping cart rather than a device for sharing media.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/04/apple_wireless_ipod_patent/

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