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First Picture of new Motorola iTunes Phone?
swissfondue writes "macprime.ch. is reporting a link to a pdf presentation by Motorola's North Asia manager Michael Tatelman, VP and GM Mobile devices, made on 21 June 2005 to analysts of Morgan Stanley in Beijing.
Page 15 of the presentation shows a picture of a yet unknown Motorola phone playing iTunes visualizer, with the usual Apple logo.
The silhouette of the phone is not in RAZR style, but in PEBL. It seems to also be featuring a scroll wheel."
if you get put on hold you can listen to your own music instead of theirs?
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Perhaps this is Apple's answer to people saying cell phones are poised to serve as MP3 players and music downloading devices. Since Apple isn't in the mobile phone business, this might be a way to get their brand name out there even more and to keep some of their market dominance.
...but the carriers won't sell it because they all want the content piece of the revenue stream. They're convinced that they can get you to buy into a plan that has you downloading songs from their service, while they charge you airtime for browsing and downloading, on top of the price per song.
No thanks.
"I will never combine an iPod with a cell phone" - Steve Jobs.
"There will never be unions in my plants" - Henry Ford.
Didn't Bill Gates predict the fall of the iPod with an MP3-enabled phone?
Looks like Apple is going to beat them to the punch once again.
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Engadget reported the same thing yesterday with a pic and it's even in English.
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So... in other words it's... a rotary phone?
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>> Wait, how do I dial a phone that only has one butan?
Don't worry. It's a special Apple BUTAN. All you have to do is to hold down the button and think of the person you are dialing. The BUTAN does it for you. All bow to the BUTAN!
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I know I, my family, and many of my friends, do not need these super tricked out phones. We do not need games, dozens of ringtones, video playback, cameras, or mp3 players in our phones.
/me grumbles
All we need is a very basic phone, that has a phone book, maybe voice activated dialing, and voicemail.
It is getting pretty difficult to find basic cell phones as it is. All the vendors try to press all these phones with extra features that I will never use. Damnit, I dont need my phone to be able to play mp3s.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." -Zapp Brannigan
"Candy bar" refers to a non-folding phone design.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Does no one at Motorola have spell check turned on?
...linking a 6+MB PDF directly. Then posting on the homepage.
:P
Really, have some compassion Slashdot.
Great. Now people will be able to talk and listen to music while driving....
I've always been able to talk while driving. Listening to music isn't that difficult to, just turn on the car stereo.
Sig?
Now they actually have to superimpose them on top of each other (note how the scroll pad intersects the number keys)- Don't these designers understand that this is a horrible design?
It's so obvious what to do: The scroll wheel is great for picking songs and numbers to call out of the address book- For numbers, just use voice recognition: Having a recognizer just for digits works fantastically already- Heck, they wouldn't even have to do the recognition in the handset, but use a central server to handle that part, if it requires too many computrons!
For crissakes, the whole point of the scroll pad is that it is a versatile input device- The scroll pad is all you need!
"Candy Bar" is the term used in the industry for phones which don't fold or bend or twist or anything else, like most Nokias.
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Does it accept Morse code? :)
Ya know, when I see incredibly dumb Apple topics like this one, this article immediately springs to mind:
iProduct.
Here is a Link to a screenshot of page 15 w/ a photo of the phone.
Mod me however you feel, I don't care.
If it's a fake, it's a pretty impressive one from what I can see.
It is almost certainly a fake and it is not very impressive from my point of view.
The strongest evidence of a fake is that all of the graphics in this presentation are raster, except for this phone, which appears to be vector. Does that make any sense to you? No, not to me either. It's almost as if Motorola would have used one source for all of their images and then a second source for just the image of this phone. Now, you can assume that there'd be some back and forth with Apple or possibly even an outside design agency over this phone, but that still wouldn't explain why this one graphic is in a completely different format than all the others.
Second, this phone is not a PEBL. The PEBL is a specific model, as is the RAZR. Yet it appears under the heading of "PEBL".
Third, the design of the phone itself doesn't make any visual sense. Look at it. It's simply a candybar phone that somebody has Photoshopped an ugly green wheel directly on top of. If we're to believe this, there are actually buttons under the scroll wheel.
Lastly, does this thing look like anything Apple would actually sanction? I mean, seriously. Use your critical thinking skills. Apple has some very rigorous standards for their branding, and they only allow their logos to appear on products that they have approved. Something this big, I can't imagine Steve Jobs himself not being personally involved with. And this does not look like anything either Apple or Jobs would ever allow out there. Not just because it's ugly (though there is that), but it just looks so completely different from their design ethos. Apple is not going to have their first iTunes phone be a mini-Xbox.
I have no doubt this was a real presentation, but this image was not originally part of it, and it is not a real Motorola phone. If I'm wrong, I will eat my hat.