“Motorola executive Ed Gams said Motorola hopes this summer to ship its first phone that can download music using Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes,” Reuters reports. “‘The first of these we’re hoping to see in the summer,’ he said, referring to a phone that many observers expect to be popular among consumers. He said he expects Motorola to launch another music phone in the fourth quarter. Motorola previously said it would deliver two iTunes-compatible phones this year, with one coming to market in the first half of the year and another in the second half.”
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Motorola’s Apple iTunes phone software screenshots posted online – May 11, 2005
Will cellphones eat Apple’s iPod or vice versa? – May 09, 2005
Bona fide Apple iPod killer? Nokia’s 4GB mobile ‘jukebox’ phone due by Christmas – April 28, 2005
Can mobile phones and telecoms kill Apple’s golden iPod+iTunes combo? – April 26, 2005
Motorola CEO Zander: Apple iTunes phone due ‘in the next few months’ – April 20, 2005
RUMOR: Apple’s iTunes Mobile 1.0 to be ready by June – April 20, 2005
Verizon, Sprint, other wireless companies balk at carrying Apple’s and Motorola’s ‘iPod phone’ – April 19, 2005
Motorola to unveil iRadio – PC to Mobile to Car Stereo service – April 18, 2005
Will Motorola’s Apple iTunes phone make it to market? – March 28, 2005
BusinessWeek: What’s going on with the Motorola Apple iTunes mobile phone? – March 24, 2005
So who’s really delaying the Motorola iTunes phone anyway? – March 21, 2005
Motorola exec: Apple iTunes phone debut delayed by Steve Jobs; phones will launch in 2005 – March 16, 2005
Motorola’s Apple iTunes phone in trouble? – March 14, 2005
Motorola says iTunes phone unveiling delay not caused by dispute with carriers – March 10, 2005
Motorola says it’s working on more iTunes phones, some models ‘can store eight hours of music’ – March 10, 2005
Motorola indefinitely postpones Apple iTunes phone unveiling – March 10, 2005
Motorola’s ‘ROKR’ Apple iTunes mobile phone to be unveiled this Thursday – March 06, 2005
Motorola’s yet-to-be-unveiled ‘ROKR’ phone will be first Apple iTunes phone – February 16, 2005
Nokia to use Microsoft’s music formats on its handsets – February 15, 2005
Motorola E1060 not, repeat not, the iTunes phone – February 16, 2005
Motorola executive previews iTunes Phone at CES, syncs to iTunes like an Apple iPod – January 06, 2005
Apple’ prodigious hardware and software design skills may help Motorola create iPod phone – December 28, 2004
Apple, Motorola iTunes on cell phones a harmonious deal that benefits both companies – August 05, 2004
Motorola posts Steve Jobs’ Apple iTunes announcement video – July 28, 2004
Apple, Motorola iTunes deal not exclusive, debuts Apple’s licensing of FairPlay DRM – July 27, 2004
Motorola and Apple to bring iTunes Music Player to Motorola’s next-gen mobile phones – July 26, 2004
Go get ’em Apple.
Ed Gams?!? Come onnnnn . . . that’s a made-up name. Yeh-hehessssss. I mean, what – did the family name used to be ‘Legs’ and they thought ‘Gams’ would be better? Hey, I keed. I keed the pitifully-named.
No seriously, next thing you know some freak will name their kid’s ‘Apple’ or ‘Blanket’ or something.
Oh-ho-hohhhh . . . never mind. I forgot.
How many months has the world been waiting for this thing?!
Music Industry greed is holding up the ITMS worldwide, and now the Phone Companies are holding up an iTunes capable phone …
Seriously, is anyone really going to download songs to their mobile at $3 a pop (like the phone companies want) or will this phone which enables you to transfer songs from your computer eventually see the light of day … it seems like what the consumer wants is always last on the list.
Its network carriers greed this time rather than music industry’s that hold the podcell
wonder how much the phone will cost and which carriers will offer it first.
hopefully it will undercut nokia’s. what about specs for audio quality, any word on that yet?
The Cell Phone Carriers in the US are the greediest bunch to have ever come along.
whatever, I will believe it when I see it
and your right NoPCZone
This will be cool when it happens, but I am wondering if carriers will cripple OBEX in the phones so that you can’t sync address books and contacts via bluetooth. That is what Verizon made Motorola do with their first Bluetooth phone, the V710. The reason supposedly is because phone carriers don’t want people to have the ability to swap files to one another via bluetooth (e.g. Screensavers and tones).
“No seriously, next thing you know some freak will name their kid’s ‘Apple’ or ‘Blanket’ or something.”
Good one, T-Dog.