iTunes phone details are emerging

The new Motorola ROKR (pronounced "Rocker") is available in the following markets:

- U.S. - today, exclusively with Cingular
- U.K. - expected to be available first with Carphone Warehouse in mid-September and with O2, Orange, Virgin Mobile, BT Mobile and other top retailers by late September
- France - expected to be available by late September through key retailers
- Italy - expected to be available by late September through key retailers
- Canada - expected to be available in mid- to late-September with Rogers Wireless
- Hong Kong - expected to be available by late September through multiple retail outlets and operator channels
- Australia, Singapore and the Philippines - expected to be available late September through early October through retail and operator channels
- Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and other markets throughout the world - expected to be available in the fourth quarter

http://www.mobiledia.com/news/35870.html

Despite that demurral, Zander couldn't completely hold his tongue. “I think it’s going to be big,” he said, indicating that songs will be able to be downloaded into the phone from PCs but the major feature of music video playback won’t be available until later. Moreover, the rights and royalties to videos are a looming hurdle that needs to be overcome.

http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=170701147

k750i
http://www.sonyericsson.com/k750/

Walkman 800 phone
http://www.sonyericsson.com/w800/mainpage.aspx

this won't be it.

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/iSpoof6.jpg

(If they could get iTunes onto the nokia 9300 that would have me sold)

Madonna and other musicians are also being tapped to shill the new ROKR in an advertising campaign set to begin later this week, showing them in a phone booth out in the desert.

http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09/07/special/index.php

Jobs calls the iPod nano "an entirely new ground-up design, that also has 1000 songs in your pocket." The white device features a color display and can support photos, uses a grey click wheel to navigate, and is 80 percent smaller in volume than the original iPod -- thinner than a number two pencil, said Jobs. The iPod nano weighs 1.5 ounces or 42 grams.

Compared to the iPod mini, the iPod nano is half the thickness and 62 percent smaller by volume. It uses a 30-pin dock connector, so the iPod nano plugs in to existing iPod accessories, and can also connect using USB 2.0. It features a 14-hour rechargeable battery. It achieves its small size by eschewing a hard disk drive in favor of flash memory.

The iPod nano also features a new graphical clock, games, stopwatch and lap timer, and a screen lock that uses the click wheel like a combination lock.

"White is our signature color for the iPod ... but we decided to so a second color, and we tried it because it looked so cool," said Jobs, "so we're doing a black model as well."

The iPod nano ships today in 2GB and 4GB configurations for US$199 and $249 respectively. Apple is also offering customized iPod nano accessories including a $29 dock, $39 lanyard with built-in headphones, color-coordinated armbands for $29 each, and "nanotubes" -- green, purple, blue and pink slipcases, sold in boxes of five, for $29 each.

The event ended with R&B star Kanye West performing his hit songs "All Falls Down" and "Gold Digger" for the crowd. He thanked Jobs for allowing him to perform, and added, "Thank you for making my life much easier. I remember when I had tapes."

iTunes 5!

Abandon all hope ye who enter one of those...

Amen.

http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/ipodnanohand20050907.jpg

Tasty...

without HDs?!

The nano is sweet ... and it's high time they made a tiny laptop as well.

That phone though, jesus it's awful.

now that would be cool. however: given the misery we have with one of our iPod shuffles (it frequently forgets everything that's on it, except, oddly, "i believe in you" by kylie; it seems to be something to do with switching users while it's plugged in), i'm not sure i'd trust anything important to flash memory.

i'm just downloading iTunes 5 now. the phone looks pish, but i've not explored the website yet.

Looks a lot like Tiger Mail; but you are right there hasn't been a human interface standard from apple for years and they used to be so good at that.

apart from that ... er, it's iTunes. only now import preferences are "advanced", apparently.

i've never downloaded a podcast in my life (partly because "podcast" sounds like a euphemism for jism). looking at the directory, though, i see there's radio 4 stuff ... am i missing out on a whole world of current affairs and entertainment made easy? or is it, as i suspect, a big ol' gimmick?

Abandon all hope ye who enter one of those...

AARRGGH. I'm excited about the tri(quad?)-band GSM (thank you to whoever put that on there), but I really hope that they do something like the Razr, where you can pay $200 more or so to get a "special editition" (aka unlocked) one. I'd happily pay that much to avoid Cingular. I might be better off just duct-taping my shuffle onto my t68 anyway, though. :-P

tell me more...

i so, so want a nano already, although i guess i should wait until after xmas or something. although i wonder how much they are in canada (i'm there next week)? hmmm... i don't really need one though, it's not like i really find the mini too big.

jesus! there's thousands of 'em. god damn.

a google for "podcast recommendations" brings up, heh, an ILM thread as the second hit. one day. for now, i'm off to me kip.

o wow, "in the aeroplane over the sea" is on iTunes. perhaps i should buy it.

All you could possibly want to know can be found...

At Xin's site - supermacro is the only model currently shipping. though supermini is teh cool:
http://www.fixup.net/products/macro/index.htm
http://www.fixup.net/products/pktamp/smini.htm

Or at head-fi: www.head-fi.org

The w800 is coming to the states though

They must have a shitload of inventory to get rid of.

Seriously. Guh. So ugly.

What I've read is that the w800 does not use GSM 850, which is the preferred band here. Also, with Cingular selling this (inferior) iTunes ROKR (like the PRML SCRM-ness of the name though), they might not offer the w800 due to marketing arrangements with Apple. The w800 can do up to a 2GB memory stick (comes with 512 and a 1GB stick isn't that expensive), has a 2MP camera, reportedly 30 hours of battery life and no iTunes which makes it incredibly appealing (plus it looks great).

Or play videogames on it. Is Nokia secretly pushing for this too? I still think we're a few years from a phone being the ultimate media toy.

I don't mean to get off-topic but I'm wondering if I should get a Creative Zen next week (20GB) or some smaller Ipod thing that's only 5GB or so. They're roughly the same price. Could someone e-mail me or post their recommendations for mp3 players within the $180-240 area? Is the Ipod's greatest catch its portability and compatability with all sorts of smaller things? I haven't paid attention to these things in the past year so I don't know what's the newest thing.

on my 10GB I used to just use playlists

which probably took up about 1GB of space

if that

plus I'm sure I can get a friend in america to buy one and send it

so, should be pretty cheap too

I thought I didn't miss it

then I started commuting

I'm going to buy a nano

: )

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html

well quite, but it seems everyone on my bus to work is listening to music on their phones already. kids annoyingly play them through the tinny speakers which is fucking annoying

I feel very silly now =) thanks Jarl.

the editor of "stuff" magazine is claiming that the rokr has been kept a bit shit storage-wise in order that it doesn't fuck the iPod market. he reckons it could hold wad-loads more, but apple don't want to burn any bridges yet.

personally, i really don't want my phone to be my music device:

1) i like to be able to keep one earphone in, listening to music, when i'm on the mobile
2) if you lose/break it, you're doubly fucked
3) my iPod lives in a little armoured case and is treated like a fragile gem. my much-loved nokia 7650 has been scratched, dropped several times, hurled across the room and generally abused. it's a phone: phones have it tough.

or you could download it here for free (as one of yr free starter albums).

MEANWHILE, BACK IN PLANET ITUNES 5:

i've just inserted the new grandaddy CD. and the fucker hoys straight off to the CDDB to get the tracks. I DON'T WANT IT TO DO THAT. AND I CAN'T FIND ANY PREFERENCE TO STOP IT.

fuck that, apple. that's microsoft shit: that whole "oh, we know what you want to do" thing. if i want the tracklisting, i'll get it myself. grrrrrrr.

there is no preference to stop this. at least, not that i can find.

er, only if you reduce everything to ridiculous oppositional binaries (eg "shall i punch stet in the bolls" v "shall i do absolutely anything other than punch stet in the bolls"). when i insert a CD, iTunes is actively going off to the CDDB. i want it to passively "do nothing". i don't see how that's an either/or.

(god. the philosophy of iTunes.)

mind, things haven't been the same ever since the "default browser" control panel became, er, part of, umm, safari. fuckers.