Great news. That phone was ugly.

Right that would explain why when one went to the particular page on Motorola's web site refering to that phone it had no reference what so ever to iTunes or indeed amusic player at all. Might be useful to do some basic research I suppose before reporting such a misunderstanding.

Well, it looks like Reuters messed it up, but really, can you blame them?

What kind of stupid thing was that, Motorola? Showing off a feature on a phone that won't actually have that feature? No wonder they got confused.

I knew it wasn't it. Apple will want to make a splash with it. Given the Nokia-Microsoft deal, the iTunes phones should be something more newsworthy than what we saw.

By the way, won't the sale of this phone eat into the iPod shuffle market?

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kwameaj wrote:
I knew it wasn't it. Apple will want to make a splash with it. Given the Nokia-Microsoft deal, the iTunes phones should be something more newsworthy than what we saw.

By the way, won't the sale of this phone eat into the iPod shuffle market?

it may have a small impact on the shuffle market, but i dont think that much

this phone will probably be available for very few providers, and will also probably require bluetooth to sync the files

shuffle uses USB, and everyone now has USB

TRO

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kwameaj wrote:

By the way, won't the sale of this phone eat into the iPod shuffle market?

Do we know what kind of memory the phone will have? I think 256 KB is reasonable. If someone wants a 1 GB shuffle, that certainly won't appeal to them.

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Small White Car wrote:

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kwameaj wrote:

By the way, won't the sale of this phone eat into the iPod shuffle market?

Do we know what kind of memory the phone will have? I think 256 KB is reasonable. If someone wants a 1 GB shuffle, that certainly won't appeal to them.

Nor do we know what the price of the phone will be. Even with carrier subsidies, prices on some "trendy" phones is outrageous. Look at the RAZR, which is going for $500 with a 2-year contract. The iTunes phone could be priced at that point, it could be a freebie phone, or any where in between. We just don't know.

I think that eventually (2+ years), cellphones may offer competition to flash based players like the shuffle. But Apple is likely to strike deals with other manufactures (it'll be a race to see who signs more deals: Apple or Microsoft). So while their revenue per-unit will go down, the volume of cell phone sales is huge compared to that of MP3 players. Nearly 700 million cell phones were sold world-wide last year. The license revenue for Apple could be huge, and the manufacturing cost to Apple would be zero.

I felt better now. I was disappointed with the phone. I expect better styling and easier to use UI.

That phone was fugly.

Not something that should ever be associated with an Apple product.

Apple said in January at MacWorld that the iTunes phone would be mid-priced-affordable, not high-end, putting it in the $250-300 range.

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Dreadnought wrote:
That phone was fugly.

Now, there's a new word (for me, at least) that makes sense, as in "f-ing ugly." Thanks for the laugh! (Reminds me of the Car Talk guys' makeup artist, Bud Tugley.