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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. Worst of both worlds by DrKyle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Take a cellphone I have to charge every day and add an mp3 player that gets charged every day and I'm willing to be that doesn't make 2 days worth of charge. When will convergence end and manufacturers just give me one thing that works well for a long time? Next they'll add video playback that will kill the battery in less time than to watch a movie.

    1. Re:Worst of both worlds by wankledot · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Good thing you don't have to buy one!

      Seriously, if you are tired of new features taking up battery life, then don't use the feature or buy a phone with it.

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  2. Woohoo! No more asstastic ringtones! by Jailbrekr · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why spend upwards of 2 bucks for a crap ringtone when we could (assuming it supports this feature) use actual song snippets

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  3. Great, but what about the other stuff? by seanbry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All this iTunes support, yet still not Moto Bluetooth Support. Nice going Apple and friends -_-

  4. If we're going to guess... by ewanrg · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Why not at least look at what we think would make sense? Ok, it's probably not going to have a roll-up screen and a beanie-cap neural interface, but there are some reasonable things we could hope for.

    First, I hope this thing is wrong about needing to connect to a computer to "do it's business". There should be a way to support impulse buying - preferably tied into some kind of recognition feature where you could hear something playing on the radio, sample it through the phone, and get a suggestion (or two due to sampling) and then make the purchase.

    Next, why not hope for at least a mid-end built-in camera to support the ol' "take a picture of a UPC code on a CD, and offer the music to you for sale" trick that you can somewhat get from Amazon now?

    Finally, how about some limited sharing capabilities? If the Tivo "TivoToGo" can let you share with up to 10 friends, why not make it easy to send the song along to your other phone buddies? If the money isn't there for complete sharing, how about for X number of plays and then a link to pay or delete?

    Oh, and I "hope" it occurred to these folks to have the billing for the tunes integrated with the service so that folks don't have multiple bills every month. Yuck...

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  5. Re:Phone & MP3 player? by Kirby-meister · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're listening to music, you have an incoming call... and then what? You can't talk to somebody and listen to music at the same time.

    ...Maybe...you could "pause" the music?