this could be iPhone, a new Motorola MP3 playing mobile phone. At the moment its stated as being for the Korean market. Maybe this is the phone being used for the iTunes software.
this could be iPhone, a new Motorola MP3 playing mobile phone. At the moment its stated as being for the Korean market. Maybe this is the phone being used for the iTunes software.
Hm...the "iPhone" is nothing more than an itunes-equipped Motorola cell phone...the "iPhone"...is nothing more than....an itunes-equipped Motorola cell phone, now where have I heard that before...hmm........ FROM DAY ONE!!!!
Honestly, that Forbes article earlier was a travesty of distortion. And people then went around jumping from "Apple is developing software to let users play songs on Motorola phones" to "Apple and Motorola are making an iPhone" all the way to "Apple is making an iPhone"...
ok fair enough. But now that there is a deal and a product I wonder if apple will have access to the cellguts of the phone for a potential apple produced product.
Perhaps the deal provides for a certain period of time for moto to produce the product before apple gets access to the chipsets.
I do assume that since so much of the "iPod interface" (in the proper sense of "interface", i.e. not mere aesthetics, but rather the combination of interactions) is tied to navigating via scrollwheel, that the new phones will probably have that built in, licensed from Apple.
Note that Apple has lately been essentially branding what was previously just the "thumbwheel" or "scrollwheel" to us users, as "the Apple Click Wheel".
One can imagine that Apple could license the Apple Click Wheel out to hardware companies, as a way to maintain that high quality user experience that is so identified with the iPods. Often imitated, never duplicated.
Like, "oh, you want iTunes/iTMS integration, eh? ok but you must use the Apple Click Wheel too".
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this could be iPhone, a new Motorola MP3 playing mobile phone. At the moment its stated as being for the Korean market. Maybe this is the phone being used for the iTunes software.
Originally posted by ajprice
http://cellphones.engadget.com/entry/1234000420025117/
this could be iPhone, a new Motorola MP3 playing mobile phone. At the moment its stated as being for the Korean market. Maybe this is the phone being used for the iTunes software.
mind blowing indeed.
Originally posted by ajprice
What were you expecting, a G5 in it?
Well, now that you're asking
Is it a real interview? I find it hard to believe an Apple VP would be so open about this in advance of a keynote.
partner that with a cell phone and camera and itunes etc and you have a really neat different product.
What think you all?
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=3895
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1749057,00.asp
Originally posted by cygsid
looks like the "iPhone" is nothing more than an itunes-equipped Motorola cell phone:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1749057,00.asp
Hm...the "iPhone" is nothing more than an itunes-equipped Motorola cell phone...the "iPhone"...is nothing more than....an itunes-equipped Motorola cell phone, now where have I heard that before...hmm........ FROM DAY ONE!!!!
Honestly, that Forbes article earlier was a travesty of distortion. And people then went around jumping from "Apple is developing software to let users play songs on Motorola phones" to "Apple and Motorola are making an iPhone" all the way to "Apple is making an iPhone"...
Perhaps the deal provides for a certain period of time for moto to produce the product before apple gets access to the chipsets.
just rampant speculation.
Note that Apple has lately been essentially branding what was previously just the "thumbwheel" or "scrollwheel" to us users, as "the Apple Click Wheel".
One can imagine that Apple could license the Apple Click Wheel out to hardware companies, as a way to maintain that high quality user experience that is so identified with the iPods. Often imitated, never duplicated.
Like, "oh, you want iTunes/iTMS integration, eh? ok but you must use the Apple Click Wheel too".