Guess that is why they call these rumor sites. Take enough guesses at the launch of a product and you are bound to hit one. Always fun to speculate, but this is getting ridiculous.
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Motorola iTunes Phone at V Festival
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This is not about the iPhone!!! It's about a iTunes compatible phone. iPhone is a product in development by Apple, where the iTunes phone is an attempt of Motorola to include a music service. (just like Ericson phones are going to support sony's music store). And it would surprise me if there would be only 1 moto phone supporting this. It was stated before by Apple that it would be a series of phones, not just one. You may still not like the idea, but don't confuse the iPhone and iTunes compatible phones. It is important for Apple to branch out for the music service, to ensure the iPod line will have a long future. And you may not like that either, but that's just plain business.DangerDiabolik said:
Looks to me that motorola is just using this festival to announce it's new phone that syncs with itunes. That's it. An ipod built into a phone. Motorola will most likely make a model to work on all systems, CDMA, GSM, etc. The Vfestival probably fell about the right time.
There's no mention in the article of ANY network for buying and downloading music off Virgin or any other network. It only mentions syncing with your computer.
There's no mention in the article of ANY network for buying and downloading music off Virgin or any other network. It only mentions syncing with your computer.
I wonder if they plan to launch the phone(s) in Europe first as the phone system is the more standard GSM everywhere and therefore more potential customers are available I would guess?
If this phone isn't launched fairly soon, yet the design finalised months ago, it will end up being out of date anyway. They need to hurry up with it!
The V festival would imply to me that they have a deal to sell the phone via Virgin Megastores on the Virgin service, but that doesn't go to mean it won't be available via O2, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile, they might just get it a week or two later, like the black RAZR was exclusive to T-Mobile for a short time.
If this phone isn't launched fairly soon, yet the design finalised months ago, it will end up being out of date anyway. They need to hurry up with it!
The V festival would imply to me that they have a deal to sell the phone via Virgin Megastores on the Virgin service, but that doesn't go to mean it won't be available via O2, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile, they might just get it a week or two later, like the black RAZR was exclusive to T-Mobile for a short time.
Hey Arn, I submitted this last week but never saw it come up...
It looks like the Motorola iTunes phone has already been unveiled. Check out this article from endgadget....
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000887049175/
It looks like the Motorola iTunes phone has already been unveiled. Check out this article from endgadget....
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000887049175/
Just most things around here, this too is just conjecture. However, this is most likely accurate information. That being said, it still has not been "released" per se. So we'll have to wait for "official confirmation."makkystyle said:
Stridder44 said:
Yes. We have all seen the Motorola phone and it's nothing to get excited over. These continual delays build up the hype though which will only lead to a huge letdown when it's finally announced. Get ready for a lot of "That's it?" comments once it is.
Now if Apple is working on a phone of their own that would be exciting.
What's up with Virgin?
Virgin sold iPods until they made their own mp3 player.
When that didn't sell they actually killed off their entire electronics division.
They used to sell music downloads now the songs they feature on their website are iTunes links.
Virgin Airlines offer iMacs and iPods in their lounges for First Class passengers.
Is there a bigger co-op in the future with Apple?
Virgin sold iPods until they made their own mp3 player.
When that didn't sell they actually killed off their entire electronics division.
They used to sell music downloads now the songs they feature on their website are iTunes links.
Virgin Airlines offer iMacs and iPods in their lounges for First Class passengers.
Is there a bigger co-op in the future with Apple?
bdkennedy1 said:
Bingo. I barely cared in the first place. Now with the tenth deley or supposed "announcement." This is more annoying than anything.
I know, I know. They are plenty of people that are equally annoyed by all of us complaining, but this is getting ridiculous.
When I look at the big carriers, here's what I see...bretm said:
T-Mobile sells only two phones (both Motorolas) which are on the iSync list (though I got my a630 to sync just fine through an undocumented hack).
Verizon offers a wide variety of phones, and again, only two of their phones (both Motorolas) are iSyncable.
Cingular offers a whopping five iSync phones (3 Motorolas, one impossible-to-dial Nokia, and one so-bad-I-sold-it-for-a-big-loss-and-was-happy Sony Ericsson) if you don't mind their customer supBorg and their stick-it-to-ya internet fees.
Sprint seems to have one phone (a Motorola) that syncs with Macs.
So, yeah, you can use a couple Motorolas, but PC users have a huge selection of phones that can do all sorts of interesting things. Feels pretty lonely out here...
It's rumored to be that way for several years (based on some prototype info). And the iPod platform is quite flexible, so it isn't that far a stretch. SJ has hinted for the existance a few times, but never stated openly and clear that there was such a product. So, it's still speculation however there are too many little pieces of info that points to it. And if it will be launched, it will be something completely different. But that"s just the Steve's distortion field that's talking.gangst said:
I would get apple wireless service if it had coverage everywhere cingulare or verizon had cogerage. And really cheap service plans, maybe tied in with .mac so its $99 a year and 1 cent a min.
1984 said:
??????? All people here have been talking about is which carrier Apple is going to go with and how they're going to split the profits of downloads, blah blah blah. Are you high? The iPhone basically. So either this isn't the iphone (it's not anyway) or the iPhone is something everyone created in their minds from some itunes, motorola, apple rumors.
Toe said:
How many phones do you need? You can't have everything in life. Pick one sync it. Many of the phones listed aren't sold at the stores anymore, but why are you buying your phone at the store anyway? Ebay, etc. will give you a better deal.
Oh, and don't forget, the PC users have to use windows. If you don't think that is one heck of a caveat to make to have a huge selection of phones that sync with their computer, then you're on the wrong OS. There is no reason whatsoever to be on a mac if it's not for the OS. Certainly not price. Not raw power either. Ease of use and a machine that just works? Darn right.