New iphone

Owners of Apple's iPod love to trick out the music players with cases, speakers and other accessories and its upcoming wireless iPhone promises to be no different.
But the iPhone accessory market looks like it will get off to a slow start when the device goes on sale this Friday due to the tight grip Apple kept to prevent information leaking to the market about its most anticipated product in years.
Every year, consumers spend at least $US1 billion on iPod accessories and about 30 times that on phone accessories. The iPhone is poised to tap both markets.
But with little information to go on, accessory makers such as Belkin and Griffin Technology, both privately held, are initially rolling out only the basics: protective cases and charging cables.
Gadgets such as FM transmitters that need to work closely with the iPhone's innards will have to wait until developers can get their hands on fully operational handsets.
Apple also makes its own accessories, from chargers to an FM radio add-on, and it collects licensing fees on items sold by outside manufacturers.
But many current iPod accessories will not work properly on the iPhone. That is due to factors such as wireless interference and a new headphone port meant to encourage use of new ear buds that include a microphone for telephone calls.
