Ipod Cell Phone!? Options

[Wolverine0723]

I heard form my Tech. teacher, that Apple might come out NEXT WEEK ( well.. make the annoucnement anyway..) abotu the new "Apple Ipod Cell Phone"..BUT..(yes, theres a but)..i heard that from some website, like engadget.com or something, that it mgiht only hold 100 songs? I dont think I'd change form a 60gb to 100 songs!?..unless you only had like a shuffle.

Does anyone else think that it might come out soon, or at all, or do you think its just a rumor..

[latinprep12]

well i will buy it....its a cellphone a and well it holds something more then my phone..my phone can hold 5 downloaded ringtones..and your saying it will hold 100...so you do the math and what sounds better...lol...money isnt a issue...so yeah if they make one i will so post a picture of me with it

well i dont know who or what phone company will work with them, but i hope a good one like verizon..but it might be possible...apple can do alot...well i dont know if anyone knows about mac, but they achieved alot...way more then Ibm

[shortiiex]

i heard about that on some News on Tv

[jojo_rokz]

I think thats jsut a rumor because the apple company is like more into comps/ipod seems weid that they suddenly invest in cellphones...like CELLPHONES seems weird to me i dunno.. 100 songs in my opinion

[*mona lisa*]

Moved to Technology

[whomps]

I think it's a rumor.

[Heathasm]

I think it's a rumor.

nope they are

http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/30/technology...ech/ipod_phone/

[artislife90]

I think thats jsut a rumor  because the apple company is like more into comps/ipod seems weid that they suddenly invest in cellphones...like CELLPHONES    seems weird to me i dunno.. 100 songs in my opinion 

??!! ^ wtf?

Apple invests a lot of time into more than Computers and Ipods. And its a pretty well known fact that they have been playing with this idea for a while. Rumors of a release date have floated around forever.

[*mipadi*]

Apple invests a lot of time into more than Computers and Ipods. And its a pretty well known fact that they have been playing with this idea for a while. Rumors of a release date have floated around forever.

Well, to be honest--what, besides computers and iPods, does Apple invest a lot of time into?

[artislife90]

Apple works with....


Quicktime
final Cut Pro, and all that pertains to. (so chalk that up to video production)
I-tunes (which is not Ipod)
Mac OS X (which is kind of computers but more in the area of software.
I-life suite (which again, is software not a computer)
Apple also does accsessories for computers
Displays, cameras, wireless internet modems
and theres also Firewire.

So yea, Apple deals with "computers" But they do alot more than just the computer and Ipod. whee.

[latinprep12]

nope they are

http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/30/technology...ech/ipod_phone/

thats so cool i want one now..lol..i wish they make one for nextel...

[pSyCHoBanana]

sounds UBERLY awesome

[*mipadi*]

Apple works with....
Quicktime
final Cut Pro, and all that pertains to. (so chalk that up to video production)
I-tunes (which is not Ipod)
Mac OS X (which is kind of computers but more in the area of software.
I-life suite (which again, is software not a computer)
Apple also does accsessories for computers
Displays, cameras, wireless internet modems
and theres also Firewire.

So yea, Apple deals with "computers" But they do alot more than just the computer and Ipod. whee.

Software and hardware accessories, I think, would all fall under "computer", since they are all a part of computing.

[FLIPxADDICTION]

that sounds pretty fancy.
it beats my ugly cellphone by a mile.

[emazing]

Wow, they're coming out with all sorts of technology stuff nowadays.
That sounds cool though, although I don't think we'd need it that much.
Materialistic = YES.

[Heathasm]

yeah its supposed to be with cingular...im so switchign from verizon now

[Nicolatofu]

SWEET. I just got off my verizon plan and my mom wants cingular already. That sounds pretty cool. I wonder what they'll look like. Or if they're like regular phones.

[mai_z]

There are a lot of cell phones that play music already, you're really just buying the name "ipod"

[squashie]

that'd be pretty cool. i mean my phone has a little transFLASH chip, similar to the ones that cameras have but minisized. 32 MB for mine, so i can hold about 10+ mp3s. but then a iPod cell would be pretty cool.

btw i have a motorola v635

[uLoVeMikeRoch]

It's being made by motorola, which means it will suck. All of their phones are shit, even the new razor, its not as good as people think it is.

Also, this phone, who really cares? People are only buying because of the iPod Logo. THe best mp3 phone out their for america, is the Sony Ericsson w800i and the k750i. Im going to get the w800 and at a really cheap price too. Retail price is 500.

[lpxxfaintxx]

100 Songs isnt that bad... why would you want 60gb in your mp3 player? Your never gonna listen to all your 50,000 songs.

[*tweeak*]

^so that you don't have to carry around all the cds. it's better to have all yourmsuic on hand than not

[pandamonium]

are there any pictures of this so called ipod cell phone?

lol i can imagine it now............

someones in an emergency and they try to dial 911 but they accidentally slipped their finger on the scroll wheel and dial 411. ahhaha

[artislife90]

OK, since I am bored, and this topic is old. I shall update it.

The Ipod cell phone did indeed come out.

Its only available with Cingular and is manufactured by Motorola.



Its basically just an phone that holds 100 songs using an I-tunes app.



PICTURE!





this is the itunes app


[edit]
figured I'd add this too

this is the special event that Apple had. (the cell phone is talked about a little less then half way through)

CLICK IT!

[/edit]

[mzislandpinay]

omg.. i had a dream lyk this.. well something to do with an ipod that was a cell fone.. and omg that exaclty wut it lo0ked lyked.. (^)..

well then i log onto CB nd i saw this topic.. and i was lyk.. whoa.. and i saw the pikture and was lyk whoa.. i have never heard of it untill todaii.. wow..

But yes.. i think that's amaziing!! i hoep i do get one just lyk i did in my dream.. lol

[uLoVeMikeRoch]

It turns out it has a removable 512 meg chip. Only problem is that Apple is so DRM obsessed that you can't hold more then 100 songs. Also each song needs to be verified by iTunes.

Motorola ROKR E1 questions answered

Posted Sep 14, 2005, 12:55 PM ET by Peter Rojas
Related entries: Cellphones

Motorola ROKR E1
As promised, we’ve got some answers for your Motorola ROKR E1 questions, we tried to hit as many of these as we could:
What is the quality of the stereo speakers? Is the stereo separation in the built in speakers significant enough for it to actually sound like stereo, or is it pretty much pointless?

The speakers are great (for a cellphone), but it’s hard to get a decent stereo effect from them since they’re less than two inches away from each other.

Bluetooth stereo headphones?

Won’t work with them, sad to say, the ROKR E1 doesn’t support A2DP or any other stereo Bluetooth profiles.

Sound quality?

Sound quality is superb, among the best we’ve heard in a musicphone.

Song transfer time?

It took about 42 minutes to transfer 100 songs. The ROKR only has USB 1.1, so it takes an unreasonably long time to copy stuff over.

What happens when you get a call? Does auto-resume work as advertised?

Yup, it does automatically pause when you get a call. Doesn’t actually auto-resume when your call is over, you do have to click to have the music restart.

How much memory does the phone have?

It comes with a 512MB TransFlash memory card and a piddly 5MB of internal memory.

Does it sync with iCal?

It syncs with both Address Book and iCal. The E1’s datebook can be a little (read: a lot) tough to find.

What is iTunes like synching over Bluetooth?

You can’t sync iTunes over Bluetooth.

Can I load more than 100 songs on the memory card?

Yes, you could use a card reader to copy more than 100 songs to the card, but iTunes on the phone won’t play them. You’d have to use the phone’s other media player.
Is there an unlocked version available?


Not to our knowledge.

Can it sync photos with iPhoto?

Not that we could find.

Can you use songs as ringtones?

No, and it’s a little frustrating, too. They probably did this so that Cingular could protect its ringtones business.

My question is what the hell is the rest of the OS like? Does it have a scheduler? A calculator? An alarm clock? Does it have profiles that can be set automatically at different (a feature I loved about my SK2 that I broke without insurance on it!!!) times of the day?

The rest of the OS is pure Motorola, i.e., it’s incredibly pedestrian. It does have a scheduler, a calculator, and an alarm clock. It does not have profiles.

Can it receive email?

Yup.

What kind of address book does it have?

A basic on that’s similar to those found in other Motorola phones.

How do you play, pause, stop, rewind, FF songs?

There are two softkeys on the phone, you use the same key to both play and pause songs. You use the mini joystick to fast-forward and rewind, and you can also use that joystick to play songs while you’re navigating your collection (just keep clicking to the right).

Can you rate the songs?

Not as far as we could tell.

Can you bypass the 100 song limit by making one very very very very long song?

Yep.

Can I plug in regular headphones with a 3.5mm jack?

It comes with an adapter so you can use it with regular headphones.

How is the transition from menu to menu? Quick and seamless or kind of slow?

It’s far more sluggish than it should be and occasionally is only barely acceptable.

Does the phone have a flight mode/profile that allows the media player to be run with the phone bit switched off (such as with the W800)?

Yes, it does.

How is the other MP3 player that is built into the ROKR?

The UI is pretty sucky, to be honest, but at least there isn’t a cap on the number of songs you can listen to.
How does that other MP3 player interact (if at all) with the iTunes functionality of the phone?


It doesn’t at all.

Is it easy to transfer MP3s to the phone outside of the iTunes function?

Not sure how you’d define easy, but you can pop out the TransFlash card and directly copy MP3s from a PC using an SD card reader and a TransFlash card adapter.

Would you buy one of these phones?

Nope.

As you can see the phone will be less then mediocre. Most people who have read this said they changed their mines and will never go near this phone.

This post has been edited by uLoVeMikeRoch: Sep 14 2005, 03:05 PM

[dahalfkoreanstyl]

here's an updated link

http://www.apple.com/itunes/mobile/

[*takingbacksandy*]

its funny how you can play up to 100 songs on it
yet you can't use any of them as ringtones. quite pointless to me.

besides imo the phone looks ugly and i dislike motorola strongly.

[uLoVeMikeRoch]

its funny how you can play up to 100 songs on it
yet you can't use any of them as ringtones. quite pointless to me.

besides imo the phone looks ugly and i dislike motorola strongly.

Well you can listen up 2 more than 100. you have to use the OTHER media player. Which I heard sucks even more then the iPod media player, (Oh god, How bad can this other one be?) Which does lt more than 100.

[ANG33ZY]

lol the phone is ugly

[sheridan_whitesi...]

100 DRM-ridden songs? lame amirite?

[bonluvdan]

isn't that Motorola ROKE with iTunes?