Don't pick up that new mobile phone just yet. Engadget points to a Forbes that Taiwanese manufacturer Hon Hai has let the cat out of the bag on a contract it received from Apple to build 12 million mobile handsets. The details are slight at the moment but, it looks like we finally have real reason to believe that Apple will drop a real, Apple branded and designed mobile handset sometime early in 2007. I've said before that, although I'm not a big fan of mp3/mobile phone combo action, I'm really interested in how a well thought out Apple approach to iPod on phone love could look and work. Few would argue that Apple is tops at building interfaces, and at innovating their way out of those nagging little stagnant spots in established products so, it stands to reason that an Apple approach to the mobile phone could be a worthwhile endeavor.
