Mobile site believes it has uncovered Motorola\'s iTunes phone

The iTunes phone appears to be the Motorola E790, a handset based on the same hardware platform as the company's E398 and C698p devices, the Mobile Gazette is reporting.

The online publication believes the E790 will be a tri-band GSM phone with Bluetooth, a 176x220 pixel display, VGA resolution camera and microSD/TransFlash removable memory with up to of 1GB of storage.

"Add to that an email client, web browser, Java support and the usual features, plus the E398's stereo speakers and you get a handset that's a capable music phone, but really nothing special," the mobile site speculates.

Along with an image of the purported phone, the Gazette also published 3 screenshots of what has since been confirmed to be a development version of iTunes Mobile — a scaled down version of Apple's digital music jukebox software for cellular phones.

The screenshots were first published on Gizmodo, an online gadget site. A system administrator from Motorola Collective later confirmed to the Gizmodo site that the images were indeed authentic.

"The correct images of the iTunes screens are still under development and are not final nor approved by either Apple or Motorola," the Motorola representative said. "We would expect them to be available mid July when the product launches."

The most recent comments from Motorola CEO also place the iTunes phone for an introduction sometime in "the next few months."