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iPod Motorola E790 Apple iTunes phone w/ Pic's
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it is nothing being an Apple experience
phone design, interface, fonts
i agree. it looks ugly, it still has the motorola interface which is a nightmare. and i hate to say it but the se walkman phone is miles ahead of this oldfashioned approach.
i want an iphone.
phone design, interface, fonts
i agree. it looks ugly, it still has the motorola interface which is a nightmare. and i hate to say it but the se walkman phone is miles ahead of this oldfashioned approach.
i want an iphone.
Yeah, the look and feel of this phone... it's almost as if Apple has provided exactly what they said they would. A motorola phone which runs iTunes, not an iPod/Phone/PDA ;-)zissou said:
Damn them for doing what they said they'd do!
ps. I'd like an iPhone too.
agent79 said:
i'm perfectly happy with my "music-only" iPod.. Come-on man, are those 16 million iPods all sold to youngsters?!
if there's something that i'm not ok with, it is this ugly cheap phone.. Either let Jon Ive design something awesome, or at least put some alternative products varied from low-end to Razr
BT has released their phone but it's a far simpler phone than what they originally advertised.mkrishnan said:
The original idea was a wifi phone to be used in your home, work, and hotspots with VoIP and your local phone number. When away from a wifi point it would roam onto a standard cellular network and you'd pay mobile rates for calls made or received. What they've done instead is become a mobile network reseller, and when you're at home your mobile phone connects via bluetooth to your local phone line. The charges seem more like a mobile phone than home phone. They say the Wifi phone is now a later step, currently hindered by Quality-of-Service issues on 802.11.
I only know this because I looked it all up a month or so back... made a post here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=346495
Am I the only one around here who thinks news of an Apple or even iTunes-compatible phone is not even remotely exciting? I can't think of anything less interesting. Apple's products and product tie-ins always have this creative edge or inspiration to it. It's always something that gets your creative juices flowing. But a phone... yawn. It's like finding out your garage door opener works with your Mac. Big deal. It's still a garage door opener.
I really hope Apple's special event isn't focusing solely on this. I hope there's other news otherwise this is going to be a snoozer.
I really hope Apple's special event isn't focusing solely on this. I hope there's other news otherwise this is going to be a snoozer.
There are other product designers in the world besides "Jon Ive", and just as capable if not more so, they just don't work for a showcase company like Apple. Anyway phone design is all about the interface, and if you are going to add a music function, it would make sense to adopt the market leaders, which is what's happening.toughboy said:snip...if there's something that i'm not ok with, it is this ugly cheap phone.. Either let Jon Ive design something awesome, or at least put some alternative products varied from low-end to Razr
It would be great if you could just apply a universal iPod/iTunes interface to a mobile platform irrespective of make, bit like doing a Windows version of iTunes, but with more variables.
For the amount of songs you can store, why bother? most phones on the market can play mp3 and some can play AAC files, just re-convert them and upload them to your phone.
I've had and know people who have had several motorola phones and they are a nightmare, never again will I buy one! the software is soooooo buggy as hell it's unbelievable .... plug in the charger to charge the battery up and I get a 'Unable to charge' sign, take a picture and the screen goes white and reboots the phone....
I'll stick to Nokia or Samsung and spend a moment or two longer to upload mp3's.
I've had and know people who have had several motorola phones and they are a nightmare, never again will I buy one! the software is soooooo buggy as hell it's unbelievable .... plug in the charger to charge the battery up and I get a 'Unable to charge' sign, take a picture and the screen goes white and reboots the phone....
I'll stick to Nokia or Samsung and spend a moment or two longer to upload mp3's.
"Who are the ad wizards who came up with that one" - in your best Rob Schnieder doing Seinfeld voice
It looks pretty cool. I wouldn't mind having a pod shuttle on my phone to cycle through address books quickly. Too bad the rest of the phone can't have the "ipod" interface because motorolas os from cingular ssssuuucccksss.
It looks pretty cool. I wouldn't mind having a pod shuttle on my phone to cycle through address books quickly. Too bad the rest of the phone can't have the "ipod" interface because motorolas os from cingular ssssuuucccksss.
Meh..
Just looks like another phone to me. Where is the Apple styling? Will you buy this phone just so you can get iTunes downloads on it??
aussie_geek
Just looks like another phone to me. Where is the Apple styling? Will you buy this phone just so you can get iTunes downloads on it??
aussie_geek
Will anyone like this phone? Now that's a tough call. I don't think the reception will be that great. I doubt it will cell out.
Enough now.
Enough now.
Note necessarily, remember, there is not a HD spinnng up all the time to burn the battery down. It would also depend on how many calls you make/take.roadapple said:
Also just a thought... If you are listening to a song and you get an incoming call, would you get some sort of audible notification then the ability to choose to take the call or not? If you did take the call, would the song automatically be muted/paused and then pick up in the same spot after the call?
alexeismertin said:
You're not wrong. Looks like motorola picked that design straight out of their own history books.... its just so backward. After all their great design with the RAZR, SLVR and that "RAZRberry", looks like they flushed it down the loo with this one. A opportunity missed I think. I was seriously considering risking the Moto operating system and selling my Shuffle and Nokia 3230, but after seeing it...... no way. Hopefully they'll get some design input from Apple for the next model....
macrumors said:
Well I for one am convinced by this update that cellcom is real. Just not sure which country it's from...
runninmac said:
I completely agree. Firstly, that's the most unremarkable, anti-climatic and generic phone I have seen in my life. Secondly, from what it looks like the iTunes interface on the phone looks about as basic and uninspiring as I can imagine. And thirdly, the damn thing isn't even white, it's silver, without any kind of click or touch wheel, and stupidly over-sized.
If this is the iPod Phone, I will be be extremely dissapointed. However, with Motorola involved I wouldn't be suprised, Apple should have made it themselves and left M to stew in it's own horrid R&D juices.
i dont mind this phone to that xbox inspired garbage concept which was floating around the net. WHat i do mind is the horrible motorolla interface.
the one thing I could never stand with moto's fones is the way their phonebook works. I don't want to see 5 names for a single person, I want each of their numbers stored under one name, and once i select that name i can choose whether i want to dial their home or cell or work etc. Sony Ericsson w800i is the only way to go when it comes to music. Im sure it wont be a problem to sync with my mac, after all SE and iSync act like they were made for one another.
the one thing I could never stand with moto's fones is the way their phonebook works. I don't want to see 5 names for a single person, I want each of their numbers stored under one name, and once i select that name i can choose whether i want to dial their home or cell or work etc. Sony Ericsson w800i is the only way to go when it comes to music. Im sure it wont be a problem to sync with my mac, after all SE and iSync act like they were made for one another.
Not impressed.
I'm in the market for a phone, and would be happy to buy an iTunes enabled one, but not this one....
I would be looking for one with a little more Apple 'flair'.
I'm in the market for a phone, and would be happy to buy an iTunes enabled one, but not this one....
I would be looking for one with a little more Apple 'flair'.
wait people like how this looks?!?!?!?!?
I dont know but I think it looks muy terrible it looks really childish not at all sexy like and ipod ext... but to each his own
I dont know but I think it looks muy terrible it looks really childish not at all sexy like and ipod ext... but to each his own
Oh come on
It's been YEARS since I had to correct anyone, and usually it's a poster, not a website main page. IsrAel, people. Not IsrEal. Israel. Not Isreal. Israel.
Happy birthday,
SUA!
It's been YEARS since I had to correct anyone, and usually it's a poster, not a website main page. IsrAel, people. Not IsrEal. Israel. Not Isreal. Israel.
Happy birthday,
SUA!
conditionals said:
Maybe .isreal is an inheritable property of the phone class's instantiable object?
For instance:
appleTabletPC.isreal = FALSE
leopardWillRunOnDell.isreal = VERY FALSE
widescreeniBookBeforeMactel = DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED