They do - if you live in Japan.

My phone already has this functionality. It's called the HTC Wizard aka T-Mobile MDA aka Cingular 8125.

http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=781

It's about time. Sadly, Apple has probably already missed their window of opportunity for this. It should have come out a year ago. Besides the various Palm type phones, Apple is going to be going head to head with the Motorola RAZR, which is already surpassing the iPod in sales.

Now if only Apple would turn the iPod into a pen-enabled palm computer. I want my iTablet, dammit!

one can only hope it will suck a little less than the existing iPod phone from motorola.

So, is it going to charge you 99 cents every time it opens your door for you?

Thank god. Cell phones are the one device that I use on a daily basis that I have never been happy with - no matter how long I search for the right model. If their phone approaches the ease of use of an ipod or a mac I will be very happy.

apple intentionally sabotaged the ROKR knowing they'd release their own phone down the line.

No, opening the door only costs $9.99 a month. You can open it as much as you want, but if you want to close it, that costs 99 cents each time.

Oh, and if you want to pay for a 50 cent newspaper, it will cost you 99 cents too. Each time you turn the page.

$9.99 a month is a joke. That's how much those "text you a joke a day" services cost. I'm sure Apple won't have a plan for ANYTHING that's less than $100 a month, but then most cell phone users are used to paying that much just to make calls.

What I want is a cell phone that causes the user's vehicle to shut off, and a system that causes a user who makes or receives a call in a restaurant or movie theater to suffer immediate brain death.

Fnarf, you've got it all backwards. Brain death precedes making cell phone calls in restaurants and movie theaters.

DJFITS is right. What you want is something that'll give them lockjaw.

I want a cell phone that:

a. turns off all cell phones in the movie theater;

b. turns off all cell phones in the bus;

c. turns off all cell phones in cars driving within a 1 mile radius; and

d. charges itself to Mr. Starbucks and shows up on his bill as "Payback".

I can't see the iPhone every having the success of iPod or RAZR. Apple builds its products by having full control over the entire experience. Think Macintosh and Mac OS X, iPod and iTunes and iTunes Music Store, etc. The problem is that the service providers rule the mobile phone market. Until Apple starts its own network, they'll never be able to have all the ooohs and ahhhhs in the phone that the public has come to expect from Apple products.

Maybe, if they get it right, they'll be as advanced as phones in Asia and Europe were five or six years ago. You people have no idea how technologically backward we are.

I do. We're in the dark ages here. We also pay about ten times as much for less service.

I sure as hell hope they don't charge extra for voicemail if the phone has a gazzilion gigs of memory.

Oh, and screw opening the door for you, why don't they have the vibe mode designed by Hitachi.

Ooooh . . . vibraphone . . . I'd pay for that . . . :-) Or is it iVibe? iVibratunes?

Oh heck, I need to be alone for a bit . . .

Sachi - what you're thinking of is the iBrator.