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James Fee
07-04-2005, 12:46 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000887049175/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000887049175/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"This is the moment you’ve been waiting for: obviously we can’t tell you how we got ‘em, but after months of pining away for this, we’ve finally scored some actual live shots of a cellphone running Apple’s new iTunes Mobile software. It might just be an engineering or a production sample, and we can’t guarantee whether this will actually be the first iTunes phone or not, but we do know that we’re looking at a pearly white E790 and that synchronizes with iTunes 4.9 (and has the same autofill menu options as the iPod shuffle—see below). Not sure how much internal memory the phone has, but we do know that this sample shipped with a 128MB TransFlash card that sits opposite the SIM and under the battery and supposedly sounds every bit as good as a full-size iPod and has “excellent bass response"."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/engadget-iTunes-phone.gif" /><br /><br />Looks nice, but I'm a little worried that the TransFlash format won't be enough for holding a good amount(current TransFlash cards max out at 256megs) of songs especially if you encode in higher bitrates. Still it will be quite a win for Motorola to hook up with Apple.

Kent Pribbernow
07-04-2005, 01:08 AM
You have got to be kidding me??! This is the same concept design that has been circulating around, but in silver. Good grief! I was hoping Apple was developing an iPod Phone. :x Glad I just bought a Treo 650.

Felix Torres
07-04-2005, 02:03 PM
Looks nice, but I'm a little worried that the TransFlash format won't be enough for holding a good amount(current TransFlash cards max out at 256megs) of songs especially if you encode in higher bitrates. Still it will be quite a win for Motorola to hook up with Apple.

Uh, that would be on purpose; Apple doesn't want the phone to replace Pods and the carriers don't want you loading up on the PC.
One solution is to limit storage capacity...

One reason why the iMate Jam rocks is its support of full-size SD to go along with WMP10. 1-2Gb worth of subscription content plus for PocketPC capability and an ebook reader to boot?

Droolworthy...

This? A bit less... 8)