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Say Hello To the Motorolla ITunes phone !

unclejamaal said:
Does anyone remember this back in 2005? :)

http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/07/pic-of-motorolas-itunes-phone/

I never owned or used one but I remember the big deal at the time that it syncs with Itunes .

Anyone else remember it, and if you still own one, does it still sync with the latest versions of Itunes :smashin:
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How could anyone forget such an awful phone! How could two companies that are renowned for their industrial design collaborate to make something so useless and ugly?

100 songs & no over-air song purchase? What were they thinking?
 
Satori said:
How could anyone forget such an awful phone! How could two companies that are renowned for their industrial design collaborate to make something so useless and ugly?

Your first mistake is lumping Motorola in with good industrial design. They've had some successes, but it's always been pure dumb luck that a single bright person in their design department was allowed to slip a good idea through.

And when they discover how lucky they are, they beat the idea to death. They got lucky with the StarTAC, and then beat the design to death over several years without every really improving on it. Then they resuscitated the idea with the RAZR, and then beat that design to death without ever improving on it. And don't even try to leave Motorola alone to design its own Operating System or user interface. The only remotely user-friendly phones they have are Windows Mobile or Android devices.

100 songs & no over-air song purchase? What were they thinking?
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At the time, Apple didn't quite believe it had the clout to design a phone on its own, so it thought a collaboration with a cell phone vendor and a carrier would work out. It didn't, and this was the result.

Some of this is detailed in this article.

The good news is, Apple learned from the mistake.
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yes I use to have one. the motorola SLVR L7
it holds about 100 songs.

I tried to upload a picture for you guys to see but it's too big.
it won't let me.
 
I still have an iTunes Razr. Only paid $20 for it brand new. It worked fine for me. Used it up until I got the iPhone 3G. A friend needed a phone so she has it at the moment, but she said the screen comes up all white now. I keep on forgetting to get it back from her.
 
I had an itunes razr back before I got my original iPhone. It worked well. The interface wasn't anything get excited about but being able to throw a few songs on there was an interesting perk. I bought it on eBay for around 50 bucks as far as I remember. Good deal.
 
Satori said:
How could anyone forget such an awful phone! How could two companies that are renowned for their industrial design collaborate to make something so useless and ugly?

100 songs & no over-air song purchase? What were they thinking?
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This was 2005.. Flash memory was still fairly expensive and purchasing music online was still largely in its infancy (the iTunes Store which really brought it mainstream came around in 2003). Not to mention 3G type speeds didn't really exist in the wild.
 
scaredpoet said:
Satori said:
How could anyone forget such an awful phone! How could two companies that are renowned for their industrial design collaborate to make something so useless and ugly?

Your first mistake is lumping Motorola in with good industrial design. They've had some successes, but it's always been pure dumb luck that a single bright person in their design department was allowed to slip a good idea through.

And when they discover how lucky they are, they beat the idea to death. They got lucky with the StarTAC, and then beat the design to death over several years without every really improving on it. Then they resuscitated the idea with the RAZR, and then beat that design to death without ever improving on it. And don't even try to leave Motorola alone to design its own Operating System or user interface. The only remotely user-friendly phones they have are Windows Mobile or Android devices.



At the time, Apple didn't quite believe it had the clout to design a phone on its own, so it thought a collaboration with a cell phone vendor and a carrier would work out. It didn't, and this was the result.

Some of this is detailed in this article.

The good news is, Apple learned from the mistake.
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According to Jobs, Apple had the iPad in development before the iPhone and thought the touch interface would be great on a phone, hence the iPhone. Apple never set out to develop a phone prior to this, and their efforts were largely brought about by the incredible touch UI that was being developed for iPad.
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