Looks like it will may be called the “iTouch Mobile”.
I would have prefered to call it ApplePhone like they did with AppleTV… at least according to a digg I just saw, http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Renames_iPhone_to_iTouch_Mobile

Maybe it will be called the ApplePhone or the MacPhone…
Cisco owns the iPhone trademark. They were attempting to “share” the name with Apple…

“For the last few weeks, we have been in serious discussions with Apple over how the two companies could work together and share the iPhone trademark. We genuinely believed that we were going to be able to reach an agreement and Apple’s communications with us suggested they supported that goal. We negotiated in good faith with every intention to reach a reasonable agreement with Apple by which we would share the iPhone brand.”

Read more here:
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/2007/01/update_on_ciscos_iphone_tradem.html

Johnny—You raise some excellent points. I was also pondering about the storage aspects of the iPhone. Lack of card-based storage could certainly prove to be a short-term issue. Granted, 4GB or 8GB is *huge* for a phone, but it’s pretty small for an iPod (I’ve got a 30GB video iPod that suits me just fine, but 4GB or 8GB wouldn’t work at all).

I imagine the iPhone will take a similar trajectory to the iPod with storage boosts in the next year or so.

And, like you, I’m salivating at the prospect of a phoneless video iPod with that widescreen. Whoa Nellie!—mac

Most “smart” phones actually support some type of storage media such as an SD card. Would have been nice to include one of those. But, then again most computers support some type of wireless protcol, and offloading dat by transferring it wirelessly is possible.

If one is to actually use the camera for real, it should have been four megapixel. Then a hot-swapable media storage inclusion would have really been a necessity.

As for viewing videos bought from the Apple store, I am sure this will be nice, but then again that storage space will fill up incredibly fast. Offloading the videos is possible, but you cannot back them up, as burning them to a dvd is prohibited in iTunes.

If you want to get a mobile gadget that can do other things, such as email, lo res photos, web browsing and real-time web-based information through widgets as well as viewing the occaisional video there is none cooler. Or there will be none cooler. We’ll just have to wait until June to see just how they scratch. I for one cannot wait to start scratching my iPhone.

And it won’t be long before they have the version without the phone, and that will be a really cool iPod! That version just might have proper storage, like 40-60gb. Then I would prefer to have a “dumb” phone which can be utilized through the bluetooth connectivity. We’ll have to see just how smart Apple really is. That would be the “killer” iPhone… sans phone.