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Apple, Motorola and Cingular Wireless today announced the availability of the world’s first mobile phone with iTunes, enabling users to transfer up to 100 of their favorite songs from the iTunes jukebox on their Mac or PC to their mobile phone.
“We’ve worked closely with Motorola to deliver the world’s best music experience on a mobile phone,†said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re also thrilled to be working with Cingular, the largest wireless carrier in the US, to bring this pioneering phone to market.â€
The ROKR has a color display for viewing album art and features built-in dual-stereo speakers, as well as stereo headphones that also serve as a mobile headset with microphone.
Users can randomly autofill or manually fill the mobile phone with playlists from their favorite music, audiobooks and Podcasts from their iTunes library via a USB connection. The ROKR pauses music automatically when users take a call and offers the ability to listen to music while messaging with friends or snapping a photo.
Pricing & Availability
The new Motorola ROKR with iTunes pre-installed is available for $249.99 (US) with a two-year commitment at all Cingular stores nationwide and includes stereo headphones and a USB cable.
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Kanye West closed out the show. Why am I not surprised.
So "iPod player interface" hack and iTunes intergration.
They needed to do A LOT more if I was to favor this over the k750i.
Does it have radio? What kind of camera? Why such sucky design?
And the price? WTF? That what I pay for the k750 with a 6 month contract.
I think the iTunes phone is terrible. The iPod nano is a great device, but the phone is a complete disappointment. I really expected Apple to either have licensed iTunes for phones for flagship phones like the RAZR/SLVR/Q series or to have come out with something truly innovative and cool.
Instead we get a boring candy-bar phone.
Maybe the interface is actually good for the rest of the phone, but I doubt I will be buying one.
No worries. I'll just get the next Treo model and stick the Nano to the back when I need it :P
The most important thing (for me atleast) about this phone is whether or not it has:
PERFECT iCAL syncing
if it doesn't, good bye apple and...well, welcome msft...because I'm simply tired of waiting for a decent device to carry with me that will keep my contacts, tasks, and phone numbers WITHOUT messing them up during syncing...
does anyone know if it has iSync capabilities?