Apple prepping an iPhone handset for Helio?
By now we've become resigned to the fact that iPhone rumors will badger us for however many millennia it takes for Apple to release such a device. That being said, there's a new one making its rounds, claiming an iPhone is, of course, in the works, and this time it's headed for the Helio MVNO. We can thank the research and consulting firm Visiongain for this helpful morsel, who claim that Apple and Helio have been buddy buddy since Apple's work on the ROKR. Visiongain also points out that the iPod and Helio are both targeted at the same market segment, and that Helio is all about dissing the mainstream carriers which would normally squelch the capabilities of the type of phone most Apple fans assume the iPhone would be. They also claim that Apple would work with an existing handset maker in South Korea instead of making their own hardware from scratch, which has to make us wonder how this will foray will be any different than the infamous ROKR song cap incident of last year.
