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More on the iTunes Cell Phone

Posted by michael on from the only-99-cents-cheap dept.

andyring writes "According to PC Magazine, a Motorola exec demoed the rumored iTunes cell phone. According to the article, the phone syncs with a computer and the iTunes Music Store like an iPod does, and incorporates the iPod interface for navigating and playing digital music." We've mentioned this before.

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  1. This is not the final form factor by computerme · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to appleinsider sources, the form factor of the phone you may have seen in images is only a test mule based on a diff moto phone.

    http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=816

    snip:
    Update: According to sources, the phone shown above and elsewhere on the internet is not the rumored Apple-Motorola cell phone, but rather a development phone used for demonstrating the embedded version of iTunes that will be included with the Apple-Moto phon

  2. Re:Salling Clicker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Something similar exists for the PC, called PuppetMaster.

  3. TFA is wrong by pauljlucas · · Score: 3, Informative
    The phone syncs with a computer and the iTunes Music Store like an iPod does ...
    An iPod does not sync with the iTunes Music Store. It syncs with the iTunes music player. The significance is that the iPod (and presumeably the new phone) can play any MP3 file regardless of how you obtained it and not just music purchased from the iTunes Music Store.
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    If you reply, do so only to what I explicitly wrote. If I didn't write it, don't assume or infer it.
  4. Re:Back to "dialing" the phone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
    In fact, Nokia was toying around with that idea (obviously inspired by the iPod), witness the now-cancelled Nokia Neo. Rotary dialing works, and obviously such an input method is also valid for a portable music player, but anything more than that (like writing a text message) is pure torture. Thank god Nokia still has some business sense.

    Myself, I'll just continue using my Nokia 6630, which has MP3, AAC and OGG (with a plugin) playback at full 44.1 kHz 16 bit stereo goodness. Transferring music to the phone is easy with Bluetooth, or I could just download music from the Internet with GPRS/EDGE/UMTS (3G) if it didn't cost so much. Anyway, I have no use for an "iTunes" phone, Nokia already has something much better than that.