The much-awaited phone (or much-hyped by Apple) will be released perhaps within this year or perhaps in the early months of 2007. Peter Oppengheimer, Apple's chief officer in financial aspects said that their firm is putting loads of its capital for the development of the music gadgets. I think that the phone from Apple is simply an iPod with a phone feature on it allowing users to use it for communication. Well, that's new, if you ask me. At least, you can send messages through it.