More on Apple/Motorola Joint Cell Phone Venture

1+(smarterThanYou) writes "Forbes.com has an article with updates on the previous Slashdot story on the Motorola/Apple iTunes compatible mobile phone. 'Apple Computer and Motorola could soon show us the mobile phone they are developing to play music purchased from Apple's iTunes online music store. 'We've said we have something coming on this in the first half of 2005 and we're definitely on schedule for that. Hopefully you'll be able to see more about it soon,' says Eddy Cue, vice president in charge of applications at Apple.'" Theories about this device showing up at the next MacWorld Expo abound.

iPhone, uPhone we all phone for iphone...

[Wacky_Wookie]

I wonder if there will be a U2 Edtion of the phone, all black, and with a #14 Key :)

I also want a Moof ring tone!

/end apple fan-boy-rant

ipod add-on speculation

[cycledance]

i hope they come up with an add-on to merge two everyday gadgets...it would eliminate the need to have an ipod AND a mobile phone in my pocket

Re:Macintosh 1 button mouse...now the 1 button pho

[goon america]

I bet you'll have to madly spin around a little touch wheel in order to dial it. Like a rotary phone.

Let's see...

[the pickle]

1) In Sino-Soviet Korea, a Beowulf cluster of iTunes-enabled fone overlords (who I, for one, welcome) plays Natalie Portman naked and petrified in hot grits to old people in a positive manner.
2) ???
3) Profit! Because the iPod has made Apple money hand over fist, so a fone that has the same general function (could this be the flash iPod everyone is talking about?) will likely be a giant seller.

Problem is that cell fones are typically loss leaders for SOMEBODY, and we all know the iTMS is barely profitable, so I just don't see where the money would be coming from here.

p

Re:Macintosh 1 button mouse...now the 1 button pho

[voxlator]

Nah, no problem - it's easy.

You hreak the number you want to dial either by;

• Whistling various frequencies into the mic for each number to dial
• Rapidly tapping on the single button, tapping out each number in sequence.

That said, I'm sure it will be a hit with the /. crowd :)

--#voxlator

Lousy timing!

[Guppy06]

Who's going to buy an iPod phone when we've all already gone out and bought Ngages?

No Wireless...

[Thu25245]

Okay, so it's now wireless. But I bet it'll have less space than a Nomad.

Lame.

Will it actually make phone calls?

[EvilStein]

Please, for the love of god, I just want a phone that will actually make phone calls in my apartment. *whimper*

I'm not in the boonies. I'm a mere 20 miles East of San Francisco in an area where the median home prices is over $700,000. People have money.

But I can't make a phone call from my apartment. Verizon comes close, but Cingular, AT&T Wireless, Sprint, Nextel - none of them work.
My old ass MetroPCS phone is the only phone that I get more than 3 "bars" with. And it doesn't have a camera, either.

What ever happened to making call quality the #1 priority? I don't want a camera phone! I don't want an mp3 player! I just want to make friggin PHONE CALLS!
*head as-plodes*

rob me

[ogewo]

Now the mugger will get a phone with his mp3 player

Re:Flash-based iPod actually a phone?

[jim_v2000]

Yes, an Apple phone...it'd be the size of a business card, transparent, and you'd be able to dial, hangup, change options, volume, play music, type messages, etc all with one button!

Re:Will it actually make phone calls?

[Anonymous Coward]

We can switch apartments.

Mine is conveniently located in Helsinki, Finland, where we haven't heard the term 'bad reception' in about 7 years :p

Its a small flat, the weather is brown-grey rainy and its a tad more east than just east of SF, but hey, we got the networks, baby!

AC

Re:Apple is killing the iPod Image

[identity0]

Nah, it'll probobly be like "No bluetooth. Clunkier than a Nokia. Lame." anyways : )

Re:I've been doing this for awhile already?

[jbrw]

I'd prefer to have an enter key rather than a mp3 phone anyday.

See?

I win!

Wow! Just imagine the on-hold music possibities!

[Zemplar]

"Your current wait is expected to be two hours, twenty-five minutes...."

Re:Flash-based iPod actually a phone?

[pretentiousPPC]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Re:iPhone, uPhone we all phone for iphone...

[cayenne8]

"And 14 is 'catorce' in Spanish."

Man, it's like those Spanish have different word for everything....

:-)