
The long-rumored arrival of a hybrid mobile phone and iPod music player from Apple Computer has morphed from a question of “If” to “When” among fans and analysts. Chief Executive Steve Jobs and Apple are poised to roll out what has been dubbed the iPhone, perhaps as soon as January next year at the Macworld conference that kicks off every new year. Analysts believes the iPhone would be a candy-bar-shaped phone, rather than a flip phone like Motorola’s huge hit, the RAZR mobile phone.