With Verizon recently announcing its own music store -- V CAST -- that will enable that service's users to download high-quality digital music on its cell phones, it's little wonder that Apple seems to be advancing in its own march toward an iPod phone.

Seems Apple recently submitted a bunch of trademark applications, but this a whole new world for Apple. Can they reinvent the cell phone? Will that be a Top 10 story of 2006?

We'll be taking an up close and personal look at V CAST in the next couple of weeks ... Stay tuned.