Less than a week after we learned that Apple had secured a deal with Foxconn Electronics to manufacture the much hyped iPhone, Wall Street believes that they are working on a second model that will incorporate messaging capabilities.
“From our understanding, it will leverage off existing iChat software that runs on Macs,” American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu told clients on Monday. “We believe it will focus initially on mobile IM as opposed to e-mail.“
Wu went on to say that this is most likely the company’s “smart phone” and could be branded as “iChat Mobile.”
While everyone seems to agree that the iPhone will most likely hit sometime in 2007, a firm release date has not yet been established. However, with the MacWorld Expo rapidly approaching, we are hoping for some answers to these questions from Steve Jobs himself.
