Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Remember the post I made on WIP300, VOIP IP Telephony: WIP300 Wireless-G IP Phone by Linksys Reviewed
Yes that plus a few other models have emerged as iPhone. But not as we expected, as you know WIP300 was by Linksys, a subsidiary of Cisco. Yes iPhone comes to you from Linksys/Cisco not from Apple. May be Apple was too late in registering the trade mark!
But Coolest-Gadgets has more information on the iPhone trademark! He also has an article on iPhone from a different angle. Follow the link below to catch the article. The article on CG states "For almost a year now people have been speculating about the possibility of Apple releasing a communication product called the iPhone. But apparently Linksys, a unit of networking equipment maker Cisco, already owns the “iPhone” trademark. According to BusinessWeek.com, a company called Infogear registered the “iPhone” name in 1996. Cisco then absorbed the “iPhone” trademark when it acquired Infogear in the year 2000. Oops. Score -1 for the bloggers. We really should have picked up on that little tidbit months ago."
Indeed need to do better reserch
The phones themselves looks very similar to WIP300 and only two phones are new in the release. The others were in the market for a while. This is since 2004 and all the products has been wrapped under iPhone product line.

• iPhone Cordless Internet Telephony Kit - CIT200
• iPhone Dual-Mode Internet Telephony Kit - CIT300
• iPhone Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice - CIT310
• New! - iPhone Dual-Mode Internet Telephony Kit for Skype - CIT400
• iPhone Wireless-G IP Phone - WIP300
• iPhone Wireless-G IP Phone with Web Browser - WIP330
• New! - iPhone Wireless-G Phone for Skype - WIP320

iPhone Family Pricing and Global Availability:

• iPhone Cordless Internet Telephony Kit - CIT200 - Available globally through e-commerce retailers, retail stores, and VAR partners. Estimated Street Price: $79.99.

• iPhone Dual-Mode Internet Telephony Kit - CIT300 - Available globally through e-commerce retailers, and VAR partners. Estimated Street Price: $99.99

• iPhone Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice - CIT310 - Available in the U.S. through e-commerce retailers, and VAR partners. Estimated Street Price: $99.99

• New!! iPhone Dual-Mode Internet Telephony Kit for Skype - CIT400 - Available immediately in the U.S. through e-commerce retailers, and VAR partners. Global availability through e-commerce retailers, and VAR partners is expected for Q1 2007. Estimated Street Price: $179.99

• iPhone Wireless-G IP Phone - WIP300 - Immediately available in North America, Europe and Asia through distribution and authorized VAR partners. Estimated Street Price: $219.99

• New!! iPhone Wireless-G Phone for Skype - WIP320 - Immediately available in North America through distribution, online retailers and VAR partners. Europe, Asia and LATAM availability is planned for Q1 2007. Estimated Street Price: $199.99.

• iPhone Wireless-G IP Phone - WIP330 - Immediately available in North America, Europe and Asia through distribution and authorized VAR partners. Estimated Street Price: $369.99

Links;
Linksys iPhone
Coolest Gadgets article on iPhone

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

If you were misinformed that Skype is the only free/non free service in the VOIP IP Telephony arena, yes, you were mis informed. Yahoo messenger also allows you to talk to your brother in up stairs room and your uncle somewhere in New York. Also you can call land lines if you have subscribed to Yahoo Phone out.
So what does Company like Yahoo do with a service like that, it joined with Linksys to make your life easier. Since most VOIP users still rely on POTS (Plain Old Telephone) line to call when VOIP is not satisfying, Yahoo and Linksys have teamed up to create a dual-mode cordless phone that gives user the ability to toggle between VoIP functionality and a traditional land line.
Dubbed the CIT310, the phone has a small color display and users will receive 100 free minutes yahoo phone out when they sign up for the service.
Today it was around $79.00 at amazon.
You can get more info about Yahoo phone, Yahoo Phone out etc at Yahoo voice site. If you do not have a Yahoo account you can get one there too. But who did not have a Yahoo messenger account!

Source: voipcentral.org

Cisco-owned Linksys, a VoIP equipment manufacturer has joined with Yahoo! to develop a new dual-mode cordless handheld device called Linksys Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (CIT310).

Reviewing the latest model, Tom Keating writes that the CIT310 is somewhat similar to that of Linksys CIT200 Skype Phone. The handheld device provides the user low-cost PSTN Outbound calling using VoIP and Free voice calling to their Yahoo Messenger friends.

Yahoos Senior Director of Real Time Communications, Jeff Bonforte explains Yahoo! Messenger and Linksys are offering consumers the flexibility to make and receive free internet calls from the same phone they use for their home line.

The CIT300 also equips Yahoo! Local Search service to enable the users to find out local restaurants and business and quickly make a call with one touch.

The features of the CIT310 are color display cordless DECT handset, USB base station, Headset jack for connecting a headset, Multi-language support, Caller ID for both VoIP and PSTN calls, Weather search and Polyphonic ring tones, and Melodies.