WSJ: Cingular to partner with Apple @ Mobility Today

The Wall Street Journal's Li Yuan and Nick Wingfield are now reporting that Cingular will partner with Apple to power the phone Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to unveil tomorrow. Details are scant beyond that point.

Cingular Wireless is expected to provide wireless service for a new Apple Computer Inc. cellphone, people familiar with the situation say.

The launch of the new phone and service is expected to be announced as early as Tuesday, these people say.

The new product could give Apple access to the huge wireless business, in which nearly a billion handsets are shipped every year, dwarfing the nearly 70 million iPods Apple has sold over the past five years.

I can say this much: The WSJ is as old-school as media gets, and there's no way they would print this unless they heard from someone incredibly credible, ie: Apple or Cingular. Here's a hint. It wasn't Apple.

What's interesting is that similar things have happened before, and it wouldn't actually be surprising if Apple doesn't announce a phone or switches wireless partners if they find out Cingular leaked this. They did it with the ATI Radeon.

BREAKING: Cingular to partner with Apple [Mobility Today]

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