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- gothicx00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8No.... this is the phone that Apple will design from the ground up. And it will be different from the rokr and slvr in the fact that it will have actual ipod hardware built in.... of which the rokr and slvr lack. They just have a half-hearted itunes application coded into the phones os. This is the phone to wait for.
There is more to my rant, but it just got to long to be a decent comment. For the whole pov, check my blog here: http://gothicx00.blogspot.com/2006/05/next-ipod-phone-or-birth-of-iphone.html - ellingswin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Apple is a registered cell phone service provider...
- jackcheng, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The wording in the reuters article is a bit confusing/misleading:
"mobile telephones with built-in iPod music players"
... I think they just mean mobile phones with built-in iTunes, like the SLVR/ROKR - bimmerboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Firstly, Softbank is just a telecommunications provider in Japan not an OEM maker of mobile phones. If Apple should come out with a mobile phone, they will develop their own handsets without the Motorola or Nokia or SE branding, and will directly outsource with OEM makers like Foxconn (FIH). Foxconn (FIH) is already producing phones for Motorola and Nokia. Furthermore, Apple already has a relationship with Foxconn Electronics (the other subsid) currently making iPod Shuffles, Nanos and Mac Minis for Apple.
So this rumor of Apple and Softbank is NOT of "developing" handsets, but to offer some sort of content & distribution business and carrier service for Apple's upcoming "rumor" mobile phone? Since Softbank already has content licenses and infrastructure, launching this in Japan with strategic partnership could just be Apple's way to test the market first before launching in US...without all the exclusive and commercial garbage between cell phone providers that can easily delay or create more problems with Apple.
So it looks as though Apple is indeed up to something. That's just my two cents worth. - samdu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The SLVR isn't exactly the replacement for the ROKR. It's just that the ROKR was such a flop that it was yanked and the SLVR entered the market at roughly the same time. If the ROKR were sucessful they'd both be on the market. The SLVR was coming regardless.
- tfaz1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is correct. This isn't going to be just another blah cell phone with iTunes branding. Apple wouldn't go through all this trouble unless they were building something that's very different than any cell phone (or service) in the market.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wasn't Apple's phone, just Motorola's phone with the iTunes brand attached.
Apple should have never been as stupid to lend their product's name to such a flop of a phone. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Slvr and Rokr both sucked, It wasnt because of itunes, Motorola phones are just lame, same old OS, on every phone, No way to have multiple #'s for just one contact, ( correct me if im wrong, i havent found a way) Nokia rocks, and cingular has direct mp3 downloads, or even a network that would support such speeds, thats the real problem.
What the phone needs, bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel cam or better, expandable internal memory, good battery life/signal/call quality , not many new phones meet these standards. I love my nokia 6230, best phone yet. - CantScanMoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hope it looks like this
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3168733759916419298&q=italk - sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5No, the ROKR and the SLVR are both Motorola cell phones, not Apple cell phones, genius.
- luugi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't know about the slvr but the razor can have multiple phone numbers per contact.
- bigpixl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Why dosnt nyon lk vowls nymor?
- jcpudd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4The SLVR is the replacement for the ROKR.
So why because the SLVR is now popular would this phone not be popular? - Dohko_Xar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5So E3 is over, we're back to more Apple stories.
- shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3back to people hating the subject of articles bitching about the article being on digg..
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/07/08/apple-cellphone-service-cx_de_0708apple.html
Apple is a registered MVNO, which means they are allowed to sell network service, rebranded from another company (for example, Boost Mobile (Nextel-Sprint), AMP'D Mobile (Verizon), Virgin Wireless (Sprint) are all MVNOs). They do this in order to allow for that company's specific marketing (for example Boost's "churp" feature, AMP'd media-enriched outlook, Virgin's pay-as-you-go). Apple will likely use Cingular, however, because of their previous relationship with Cingular wireless while working with Motorola on the ROKR/SLVR/RAZR, and as everyone and their brother and sister is predicting, Apple's likely stranglehold will be iTunes/Mac integration. - Cyborg771, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I still prefer to have my iPod Video in one pocket and my RAZR in the other.
- ummagummas08, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Lawl, didnt they already come out w/ this with the razor and the ..thin one? Why is this soooo different?
- cybersamurai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1maybe if they take off the 100 song cap this would be useful, otherwise its more junk
- tuxuser, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1glad your here to correct us jack ball
- trafnar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1registered with who? where can i read up on this?
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7They already did this with the Rokr.
It was a huge flop.
Heh, I guess even apple's given up on the rokr, favoring the SLVR instead:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/mobile/
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