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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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...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.
Engadget reported the same thing yesterday with a pic and it's even in English.
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Does no one at Motorola have spell check turned on?
For every news story about a new mobile phone:
1. Complain that there is no more basic phones
2. Get moderated +4 Insightful
3. Profit!
Come on, this is the same thing every bleeding time a new phone is announced. Get over it already.
The fact is that it is cheaper for the manufacturers to make a limited selection of models at the same time.
Features sell phones, so the minimum number of features will always go up.
For every 1 user that only needs a phone book and voicemail, there is probably 20 that also wants polyphonic ringtones, 10 that wants a colour display and a 100 users that also need text messaging.
It does not make sense to make every single combination of these phones, so you will either have a phone that is underfeatured or overfeatured.
If it is underfeatured you will have lost most of your customers. If it is overfeatured the people that need less will still buy it.
For every 1 user that only needs a phone book and voicemail, there is probably 20 that also wants polyphonic ringtones, 10 that wants a colour display and a 100 users that also need text messaging.
You have the numbers backwards.
For every 1 user that needs polyphonic ringtones or a a color display, there's 10 who just want a bloody phone. And EVERYONE benefits from longer battery life.
Text messaging? That's just software. You don't need to build a fancy phone to get text. OK, OK, you can't get text on a 7 segment LED, but that's a bit primitive even for us puritans.