iPod iTunes Phone - Coming September 15th?

orkle · Aug 22, 2005

OK so I know I'm a newbie user, but I have pretty much PROOF that the iTunes phone from Motorola will be launched on September 15th.

I do a lot of work in the music industry and know a couple of people who have been approached to play at the launch event...

doucy2 · Aug 22, 2005

well if this is ture im saving my money
and saying good buy to my old phone
i just traded away my old ipod today too yay

ColoJohnBoy · Aug 22, 2005

Happen to know which carriers will offer the phone? I'm with T-Mobile right now, and couldn't be happier with the service, but Cingular offers much better phones and fairly similar service. I would love to have the iTunes phone or the Moto SLVR when either comes out.

orkle · Aug 22, 2005

ColoJohnBoy said:
Happen to know which carriers will offer the phone? I'm with T-Mobile right now, and couldn't be happier with the service, but Cingular offers much better phones and fairly similar service. I would love to have the iTunes phone or the Moto SLVR when either comes out.

No idea sorry - I think it's more of a Motorola product launch than a network thing...

solvs · Aug 22, 2005

Not that I don't believe you, but where's the proof other than your word? Be cool if true though. Finally.

orkle · Aug 22, 2005

solvs said:
Not that I don't believe you, but where's the proof other than your word? Be cool if true though. Finally.

Couldn't really say specifically, but a very good friend of mine manages a band who have been approached to play at the launch of the phone...

JW8725 · Aug 22, 2005

orkle said:
Couldn't really say specifically, but a very good friend of mine manages a band who have been approached to play at the launch of the phone...

What band is it?

Applespider · Aug 22, 2005

The Apple store in Regent St are having a week long festival of music in September. Is your friend playing that? Or I guess they might tie them both in.

I'm no longer holding my breath for the iTunes folder since all the 'leaked' images have looked ugly, we've been waiting a year for its imminent release and I've just got a k750 which I'm very happy with.

orkle · Aug 23, 2005

rossoUK said:
What band is it?

Again, I wouldn't like to say sorry...

JW8725 · Aug 23, 2005

orkle said:
Again, I wouldn't like to say sorry...

Hmmm....*rubs chin*

aswitcher · Aug 23, 2005

Applespider said:
I'm no longer holding my breath for the iTunes folder since all the 'leaked' images have looked ugly, we've been waiting a year for its imminent release and I've just got a k750 which I'm very happy with.

Yeah, the K750i is currently my choice phone (for what I can afford) but I figure I can wait another month to see if Apple actually manage to surprise us with something good.

lalcan · Aug 23, 2005

orkle said:
Again, I wouldn't like to say sorry...

All right Orkle, let's suppose you tell us the first letter of the band's name, and if the 15th they release the phone, you'll win a huge virtual hug, aside from some recognition in these forums... what do you say to that?

dornoforpyros · Aug 23, 2005

and yet after all the delays and the ugly pics I've stopped carring. Ok, it's a phone that plays mp3's from iTMS, big whoop.

JW8725 · Aug 23, 2005

Bit more info and some pics on inasty phone here:

http://mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=1592&source=SIDEBARHOME

Demon Hunter · Aug 23, 2005

Bloody hell with it I'm buying a RAZR

cleanup · Aug 23, 2005

dferrara said:
Bloody hell with it I'm buying a RAZR

Indeed. An iTunes phone would be nice, but most people already have an iPod.

I'm moving to Shanghai. RAZRs are pretty cheap over there. I think I'll pick one up.

orkle · Aug 23, 2005

lalcan said:
All right Orkle, let's suppose you tell us the first letter of the band's name, and if the 15th they release the phone, you'll win a huge virtual hug, aside from some recognition in these forums... what do you say to that?

I honestly think if I gave away the first letter of the band's name that it would give it away if you knew who it was!

It's "The ?????s" is about as much as I could say right now...

Demon Hunter · Aug 23, 2005

cleanup said:
Indeed. An iTunes phone would be nice, but most people already have an iPod.

I'm moving to Shanghai. RAZRs are pretty cheap over there. I think I'll pick one up.

Right on.. not to mention.. even with our minis and a RAZR in our pocket, it will be hard to notice

I was hesitant about RAZR because of the iSync/early adopter stuff but that's all been worked out hasn't it? It's been out a long time, I should hope its a safe buy now.

DJY · Aug 24, 2005

aswitcher said:
Yeah, the K750i is currently my choice phone (for what I can afford) but I figure I can wait another month to see if Apple actually manage to surprise us with something good.

I'm still undecided between the K750i and wondering if the W800 will come here any time soon...
Won't buy for a few weeks though at the earliest.

Applespider · Aug 24, 2005

orkle said:
It's "The ?????s" is about as much as I could say right now...

Based on those clues, I'd guess The Zutons

aswitcher · Aug 24, 2005

DJY said:
I'm still undecided between the K750i and wondering if the W800 will come here any time soon...
Won't buy for a few weeks though at the earliest.

W800 could be a little while given delays into the US market. You know its pretty much th same phone, but with direct music button?

I was sort of hoping it would appear soon so that the K750i price dropped a little.

Applespider · Aug 24, 2005

aswitcher said:
W800 could be a little while given delays into the US market. You know its pretty much th same phone, but with direct music button?

The 750 has a direct music button too - straight into media player and whatever was last playing. Where I thought the w800 differed was in a slightly different media player, a normal headphone jack as opposed to the weird SE one that clips in the bottom and, of course, the larger standard memory stick.

orkle · Aug 24, 2005

Applespider said:
Based on those clues, I'd guess The Zutons

Sshh!

aswitcher · Aug 24, 2005

Applespider said:
The 750 has a direct music button too - straight into media player and whatever was last playing. Where I thought the w800 differed was in a slightly different media player, a normal headphone jack as opposed to the weird SE one that clips in the bottom and, of course, the larger standard memory stick.

Mmm. Ok. Here's the review I read.

http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=1571&source=HOM

"Even though the W800 does have the obvious Walkman branding and and vastly improved music application, it is otherwise almost identical to the Sony Ericsson K750 that we reviewed in June. The W800 uses a different mechanism to activate the camera and uncover its lens, and it also changes the K750's shortcuts button into a dedicated Walkman app button, but that's about all of the differences that I found to be worth mentioning."

But not owning either phone I defer to your experience with the K750i

Applespider · Aug 24, 2005

aswitcher said:
The W800 uses a different mechanism to activate the camera and uncover its lens, and it also changes the K750's shortcuts button into a dedicated Walkman app button, but that's about all of the differences that I found to be worth mentioning."

I understand the difference from that. The k750 has a button on the side of it which, with the headphones plugged in, plays or pauses whatever you are /were listening to its Media Player. And its shortcuts button can be tweaked to go to where you like. It suddenly makes sense why its there though since you used to just create shortcuts via the joystick (and still can)

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