The issue (according to some in the know at Cisco) is that Apple does not want to pay to play (literally and figuratively) for the Iphone moniker. And they will lose this one to Cisco and lose large--the original trademark dates to about 1996. They've (Cisco) been shipping stuff with "IPhone" on the plastic and in the materials for a year now.

I hope the slick marketing people at Apple can come up with something besides "phone" to tack behind the "i" on this.

Apple may get it elsewhere. But not in the US.