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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. iPhone, uPhone we all phone for iphone... by Wacky_Wookie · · Score: 4, Funny
    I wonder if there will be a U2 Edtion of the phone, all black, and with a #14 Key :)

    I also want a Moof ring tone!

    /end apple fan-boy-rant

    1. Re:iPhone, uPhone we all phone for iphone... by cayenne8 · · Score: 2, Funny
      "And 14 is 'catorce' in Spanish."

      Man, it's like those Spanish have different word for everything....

      :-)

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      Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
  2. ipod add-on speculation by cycledance · · Score: 1, Funny

    i hope they come up with an add-on to merge two everyday gadgets...it would eliminate the need to have an ipod AND a mobile phone in my pocket

  3. Re:Macintosh 1 button mouse...now the 1 button pho by goon+america · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet you'll have to madly spin around a little touch wheel in order to dial it. Like a rotary phone.

  4. Let's see... by the+pickle · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) In Sino-Soviet Korea, a Beowulf cluster of iTunes-enabled fone overlords (who I, for one, welcome) plays Natalie Portman naked and petrified in hot grits to old people in a positive manner.
    2) ???
    3) Profit! Because the iPod has made Apple money hand over fist, so a fone that has the same general function (could this be the flash iPod everyone is talking about?) will likely be a giant seller.

    Problem is that cell fones are typically loss leaders for SOMEBODY, and we all know the iTMS is barely profitable, so I just don't see where the money would be coming from here.

    p

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    In Korea, long hair is for old people!
  5. Re:Macintosh 1 button mouse...now the 1 button pho by voxlator · · Score: 2, Funny
    Nah, no problem - it's easy.

    You hreak the number you want to dial either by;
    • Whistling various frequencies into the mic for each number to dial
    • Rapidly tapping on the single button, tapping out each number in sequence.

    That said, I'm sure it will be a hit with the /. crowd :)

    --#voxlator
  6. Lousy timing! by Guppy06 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who's going to buy an iPod phone when we've all already gone out and bought Ngages?

  7. No Wireless... by Thu25245 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Okay, so it's now wireless. But I bet it'll have less space than a Nomad.

    Lame.

  8. Will it actually make phone calls? by EvilStein · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please, for the love of god, I just want a phone that will actually make phone calls in my apartment. *whimper*

    I'm not in the boonies. I'm a mere 20 miles East of San Francisco in an area where the median home prices is over $700,000. People have money.

    But I can't make a phone call from my apartment. Verizon comes close, but Cingular, AT&T Wireless, Sprint, Nextel - none of them work.
    My old ass MetroPCS phone is the only phone that I get more than 3 "bars" with. And it doesn't have a camera, either.

    What ever happened to making call quality the #1 priority? I don't want a camera phone! I don't want an mp3 player! I just want to make friggin PHONE CALLS!
    *head as-plodes*

    1. Re:Will it actually make phone calls? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      We can switch apartments.

      Mine is conveniently located in Helsinki, Finland, where we haven't heard the term 'bad reception' in about 7 years :p

      Its a small flat, the weather is brown-grey rainy and its a tad more east than just east of SF, but hey, we got the networks, baby!

      AC

  9. rob me by ogewo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now the mugger will get a phone with his mp3 player

  10. Re:Flash-based iPod actually a phone? by jim_v2000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, an Apple phone...it'd be the size of a business card, transparent, and you'd be able to dial, hangup, change options, volume, play music, type messages, etc all with one button!

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    Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
  11. Re:Apple is killing the iPod Image by identity0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah, it'll probobly be like "No bluetooth. Clunkier than a Nokia. Lame." anyways : )

  12. Re:I've been doing this for awhile already? by jbrw · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd prefer to have an enter key rather than a mp3 phone anyday.

    See?

    I win!

  13. Wow! Just imagine the on-hold music possibities! by Zemplar · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Your current wait is expected to be two hours, twenty-five minutes...."

  14. Re:Flash-based iPod actually a phone? by pretentiousPPC · · Score: 2, Funny

    You say that like it's a bad thing.

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    Artist will always make art.