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More on Apple/Motorola Joint Cell Phone Venture

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gross-conjecture-reigns dept.

1+(smarterThanYou) writes "Forbes.com has an article with updates on the previous Slashdot story on the Motorola/Apple iTunes compatible mobile phone. 'Apple Computer and Motorola could soon show us the mobile phone they are developing to play music purchased from Apple's iTunes online music store. 'We've said we have something coming on this in the first half of 2005 and we're definitely on schedule for that. Hopefully you'll be able to see more about it soon,' says Eddy Cue, vice president in charge of applications at Apple.'" Theories about this device showing up at the next MacWorld Expo abound.

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  1. hurray by spac3manspiff · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    sarcasm>
    Now we get white shiny phones with bluetooth
    /Sarcasm>

  2. The town bike by gremlins · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow first the merger with IBM now a team up with Motorola. Apple is like the town bike slashdot stories everyone is getting a ride.

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  3. Apple can do what noone else can... by Duncan3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You heard it here first, Apple will invent the iPhone, the first phone in the world to work as ... a PHONE!

    Because ya sure as heck can't but a phone now, sure a PDA, or a camera, or any of that, but nothing that you can use to talk to people with for more then 15 seconds at a time, with a battery that lasts more then 30 minutes before the thing superheats and burns your hand.

    They will sell exactly ONE of them, to me, since I'm the only one on the planet that wants such a rediculous product!

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  4. Apple is killing the iPod Image by dteichman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The iPod's image is a small object that is stylish, easy to use, and has enough space for your music. Through doing BS like this, they are destroying that image that has been so successful. The only advantage of having a phone that plays music purchased from Apple's music store is the fact that people will be buying their ringtones from Apple instead of the service provider. Of course, you will end up with people who think this crap is really 'schweet' and they will use their iPhones to play music extremely loudly from the phone's crappy built-in speakers.

  5. +5 Flamebait by dteichman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It seems to me, given the +5 Flamebait status on some posts here, that there are a few moderators that have been pushing a pro-Apple agenda in here. Kudos to those of you handing out "Underated" to those posts that have been unfairly moderated down in here.

  6. Re:I've been doing this for awhile already? by Kiryat+Malachi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, well my phone (Motorola v400) has SSH, so nyah.

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