Apple trademark filing points to cellular offering

Recent trademark filings by Apple is leading to speculation about the iPod maker’s plans regarding the cellular phone market. Last week, Apple filed four applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office for the term “Mobile Me.” According to the filings, Mobile Me relates to a number of goods and services, including “telecommunication services for the dissemination of information by mobile telephone, namely the transmission of data to mobile telephones” along with “music players,” “digital video players,” “MP3 players,” and “software related thereto.”

An Apple Cell phone would be a big thing if…

… The internal apps didn’t suck. I’ve had cell phones for a long time now, and they’ve always had calendar, tasklist, etc. All had various degrees of suckitude such that I never used them. An Apple Cell phone should sync with my pc or apple painlessly. Like iTunes with and iPod. Doesn’t have to sync with outlook but have desktop apps that are as good as or better than outlook. That shouldn’t be too hard.

… MP3′s. More than the rokr. Please. No reason not to have 4 or 6gb of storage and decent music processing.

… Be simple. Pick a few main functions, take calls, be a PDA, play music. Don’t get crazy, just do those things and do those well.

…Combine that with the usual industrial design we’ve seen from Apple and you’ll have a cell phone/ipod/pda multifunction device that will sell 20 million units the next quarter. That may be an understatement.

Make it work with any carrier service and the sky is the limit. Might want to hold on to that Apple Stock