the design is uninspiring, uncreative, and boring. just another boringly designed in america product. i'd NEVER leave the industrial designing to Motorola!
I can't believe AppleInsider posted this image. This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen on this site. It is so obviously fake. Why does the click wheel have number keys on it? Someone did a real bad photoshop job. This kind of thing makes me think that Apple controls AppleInsider, using it to create hype when it wants and spread disinformation when it wants.
I agree. I don't understand why you people discuss abot this at all. It's so obvious it's fake. Remember the so called iHome, remember how much time you spent discussing it. You are doing it again.
It doesn't have a "d" from Apple design, not even from Motorola design. Be rational, this is NOT iTunes Motorola phone. Full stop.
I can't believe AppleInsider posted this image. This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen on this site. It is so obviously fake. Why does the click wheel have number keys on it? Someone did a real bad photoshop job. This kind of thing makes me think that Apple controls AppleInsider, using it to create hype when it wants and spread disinformation when it wants.
As 00100011 pointed out. The looks more like the Microsoft phone than the Apple phone. xBox glowing green. A good fake/mockup, but no way the real iPhone.
Side note: Apple has done a pretty good job of keeping its secrets secret this time around.
i still think there is some cool as-of-yet un-prototyped way to merge the functionality of the iPod clickwheel and the old-school rotary phone. problem is i have no idea how the k|dz would text message with such an input device... though that wouldn't necessarily be such a bad thing.
3b. nobody has really any bloody idea what happens on July 7th
4. no whiff or mockup or anything whatsoever on new iBooks
not sure what can be read into this, but isn't the NECC going on now or next week? i say this because i heard the first apple computer RADIO COMMERCIAL i have heard in a long long time while driving in listening to npr yesterday morning, über-emphasizing apple computer and education. and the ibook is the laptop of choice for apple's educational endeavors... so, methinks new ibooks will come out on the 7th.
i still think there is some cool as-of-yet un-prototyped way to merge the functionality of the iPod clickwheel and the old-school rotary phone. problem is i have no idea how the k|dz would text message with such an input device... though that wouldn't necessarily be such a bad thing.
The color isn't Apple-like, but I like the design. It appears to have a glowing, emanating soul ? a phone with life. Something to be cherished. Something that is "happening".
All of the interface elements act as a symbolic window to the internals of the phone. These elements are representational of the actual functionality of every interface element: those buttons, the pressure sensative click-wheel, the screen...
Of the comments I read on this page, more than half were claiming the interface (buttons and dial) was unrealistic and not feasible. I personally believe that Motorola could design a pad in which the surface would take on different functionality depending on the mode the user had the phone set to. Heck, they could even design the interface to be sensative to the context in which the user is operating the handheld (i.e. buttons for dialing, wheel for navigating iTunes).
You can defintely see a merging of Motorola design and Apple design in this phone. I hope it is real.
Ummmm, okay. That is just plain nasty looking. What's with the clickwheel in the middle of the keypad? I guess it's okay if you don't have to use the three middle numbers to call someone.
i still think there is some cool as-of-yet un-prototyped way to merge the functionality of the iPod clickwheel and the old-school rotary phone. problem is i have no idea how the k|dz would text message with such an input device... though that wouldn't necessarily be such a bad thing.
I still use a rotary phone on my bedroom (halfway cnsidering modding one of my other new phones to have rotary.) I think i would be much easier to use rotary, especially with text messages. To me, moving your thumb (or index finger, or whatever) is more natural than punching in letters. And I wasn't even born when the rotary phones were around, so don't make any assumptions! A click whel coul have actually two modes, one for numbers, and anther for letters. You could have one ring of labels, for numbers, and then another ring of labels inside of that, for numbers.
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So, I was looking in the iTunes.rsrc file using icongrapher:
iTunes/Contents/Resources/iTunes.rsrc
and found that the only 2 new icons were that of Podcasting and one of a phone. I think this is proof that the iTunes phone is coming very soon.
Black and green soap-phones for all!
Originally posted by celebi23
So, I was looking in the iTunes.rsrc file using icongrapher:
iTunes/Contents/Resources/iTunes.rsrc
and found that the only 2 new icons were that of Podcasting and one of a phone. I think this is proof that the iTunes phone is coming very soon.
perhaps you missed the AI article about this.
It doesn't have a "d" from Apple design, not even from Motorola design. Be rational, this is NOT iTunes Motorola phone. Full stop.
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Originally posted by MacMini
I can't believe AppleInsider posted this image. This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen on this site. It is so obviously fake. Why does the click wheel have number keys on it? Someone did a real bad photoshop job. This kind of thing makes me think that Apple controls AppleInsider, using it to create hype when it wants and spread disinformation when it wants.
Yeah apple gets their dumb monkeys dance,
now get in the cage back...
Side note: Apple has done a pretty good job of keeping its secrets secret this time around.
Originally posted by jms698
....Side note: Apple has done a pretty good job of keeping its secrets secret this time around.
understatement of the month
the rumor mill has been burnt down to the ground.
examples:
1. a cat playing with an iPod shuffle 'prototype'
2. xbox looking iTunes phone
3a. apple announces july 7th event, everybody thinks new iPods and iTunes 4.9,
instead, apple releases new iPods and iTunes 4.9 a week before July 7th
3b. nobody has really any bloody idea what happens on July 7th
4. no whiff or mockup or anything whatsoever on new iBooks
5. 7448 may be used in new portables... in october
face it people, these are dark times for advanced insider information on apple stuff.
i'm just thankful everyday that i have my (dads)
iBook g4 933mhz 640mb ram 14"
with 160gb external fw400 drive with *ahem* among other things,
battlestar galactica season 1 YEAH! watched the miniseries and 1st four episodes, looking sweet.
Originally posted by sunilraman
understatement of the month
the rumor mill has been burnt down to the ground.
examples:
3b. nobody has really any bloody idea what happens on July 7th
4. no whiff or mockup or anything whatsoever on new iBooks
not sure what can be read into this, but isn't the NECC going on now or next week? i say this because i heard the first apple computer RADIO COMMERCIAL i have heard in a long long time while driving in listening to npr yesterday morning, über-emphasizing apple computer and education. and the ibook is the laptop of choice for apple's educational endeavors... so, methinks new ibooks will come out on the 7th.
http://library.corporate-ir.net/libr...ngTatelman.pdf
(Of course it doesn't mean it's the phone, just a phone?)
Originally posted by rok
i still think there is some cool as-of-yet un-prototyped way to merge the functionality of the iPod clickwheel and the old-school rotary phone. problem is i have no idea how the k|dz would text message with such an input device... though that wouldn't necessarily be such a bad thing.
it's been done
Anyway...
The color isn't Apple-like, but I like the design. It appears to have a glowing, emanating soul ? a phone with life. Something to be cherished. Something that is "happening".
All of the interface elements act as a symbolic window to the internals of the phone. These elements are representational of the actual functionality of every interface element: those buttons, the pressure sensative click-wheel, the screen...
Of the comments I read on this page, more than half were claiming the interface (buttons and dial) was unrealistic and not feasible. I personally believe that Motorola could design a pad in which the surface would take on different functionality depending on the mode the user had the phone set to. Heck, they could even design the interface to be sensative to the context in which the user is operating the handheld (i.e. buttons for dialing, wheel for navigating iTunes).
You can defintely see a merging of Motorola design and Apple design in this phone. I hope it is real.
Originally posted by 1984
Ummmm, okay. That is just plain nasty looking. What's with the clickwheel in the middle of the keypad? I guess it's okay if you don't have to use the three middle numbers to call someone.
Apple is bringing back the rotary phone
i still think there is some cool as-of-yet un-prototyped way to merge the functionality of the iPod clickwheel and the old-school rotary phone. problem is i have no idea how the k|dz would text message with such an input device... though that wouldn't necessarily be such a bad thing.
I still use a rotary phone on my bedroom (halfway cnsidering modding one of my other new phones to have rotary.) I think i would be much easier to use rotary, especially with text messages. To me, moving your thumb (or index finger, or whatever) is more natural than punching in letters. And I wasn't even born when the rotary phones were around, so don't make any assumptions! A click whel coul have actually two modes, one for numbers, and anther for letters. You could have one ring of labels, for numbers, and then another ring of labels inside of that, for numbers.