Sunday, July 3, 2005
Engadget Breaks Story on iTunes Phone
Posted by James Fee in "HARDWARE" @ 04:46 PM
"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"."
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.
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.
