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Apple, Motorola Plan An iTunes-Friendly Phone
PabloJones writes "Apple and Motorola have come together to create a new mp3-enabled cell phone, according to this Reuters article. It says that the device will be capable of storing about 12 songs, and will be fully integrated with iTunes. Perhaps this is a beginning of a new relationship between the two companies, after the PowerPC problems between the two in recent years."
Hey, I'm not selling 12-song devices and I'm not winning... must be something else...
The multi-million dollar cell-phone ringer market just SHIT ITS PANTS.
*squirt* *plop*
If people can pop some songs onto their phone, why pay a dollar or two for a 10 second clip that sounds like it was recorded on an 8-trak?
hehe. Fuck'em.
Will we see a return to rotary dialing of phone numbers with an iPod-like scroll wheel interface?
Yeah, too bad that Firewire thing never amounted to anything...
Sure, it sounds like a good idea now, but you won't be too happy when poor yields force Motorola to "roll back" the phones to hold only seven songs, just like Apple's 500MHz G4 fiasco.
MP3 player with iTunes support
Browser that supports WAP, HTML, Frames, Flash, Shockwave, Tabbed Browsing, and thumb-guestures
8 MegaPixel camera with 6x optical zoom that takes SLR lenses
Calander and contacts that syncs with microsoft exchange
2.2" display with 65K colors and 480x640 resolution
802.11g and bluetooth (that works) with kismet
12 cell LiIon battery with 14 day standby and 6 hour talk time
media player capable of playing MOV, MPG2,4, AVI (divx and xvid), RM, DVD,
HDTV that syncs with your tivo, direct-tv, XP-MCE, or mythPC (sorry MyHTPC and freevo, not enough room in ROM)
Direct TV connection with 400 channels
Cheap custom ringtones that dont suck (no more paying 99 cents for a 50 cent ringtone)
Vibrate, Pulsate, Ultra-Vibrate, and Orgasmobrate (for her pleasure)
authentic TOS trek sound for when the clam shell flips open
Walkie-Talkie function that be used without speakphone
SDIO card for memory expansion
4G 1MB/s internet connection
RSS feeds on your "desktop"
9 button thats not pre-programmed to 911
full QWERTY thumbboard with touchpad
VNC, TightVNC, and Terminal Services
Vi, Emacs, Notepad, and that thing macs use
Powerpoint support with included VGA dongle for presentations
SMS, MMS, EMS, and PMS
synchronization support for pop3, imap4, and active-sync
drivers for linux (source included)
dual boot mode with windows CE and linux (2.7)
included sample cowboy neal ringtones
j2me, perl, and C# support
graphing calculator
Included USB cable makes phone act as USB flash drive on any PC (w2k+)
GPS with included geocaches
ability to turn reciever into promiscuious mode with ethercap
SSH (1,2) and Telnet clients that work!
1GHz Transmeta processor
Via Eden 600 MHz backup processor
dual blue cold cathodes with case window
Support for CD-R / RW, DVD-R-RW+R+RW-RAM, MMC, SD, CF, PCMCIA, and 5.25" (double density)
Did I miss anything...
Oh yeah, Phone. Maybe next revision, until then you can hook it up to your vonage box.
Ok, so I was only joking on a few of those things, but seriously some of these features need to be considered. I want an open platform phone that allows me to put RSS feeds on my "desktop" and can SSH and VNC into boxen (sp?)
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the