“The first Motorola cell phone built specifically for iTunes may still be a few weeks away, but in the interim iTunes users have discovered that some of the company’s existing handsets are already willing to communicate with the latest version of Apple’s jukebox software,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider. “Specifically, it appears that iTunes 4.9 is happy to recognize certain flash-memory enabled Motorola phones as an ‘iPod phone.” When one AppleInsider tipster connected his Motorola cellphone to his PowerBook he was taken back as iTunes 4.9 automatically launched and prompted him to provide a name for the phone.”
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“taken back” should be “taken aback”
curiouser and curiouser… but i’m still not in the market for a player/phone.
i-T call home.
Perhaps he really was ‘taken back’. Sort of in a Proustian flashback to his childhood…
Or perhaps he plugged his cellphone in to his Mac at the same time he was driving his DeLorean 88mph through the Twin Oaks Shopping Mall’s parking lot…
Update? Model numbers?
I declare “shenanigans.”
The iPod Phone icon in the system preferences magically appears only when a phone is connected? This doesn’t adhere to iTunes standard — the iPod panel is there regardless of whether your iPod is physically connected.
Also, that slider at the bottom is confusing and awful.
This didn’t happen.
the real news is here: http://www.mac4ever.com/actuReagir/index.php?t=12343
and here you can find english translation: http://forums.applenova.com/showthread.php?postid=213400#post213400
and here 2 screenshot by me to illustrated the news:
and here 2 screenshot by me to illustrated the news:
So which specific Motorola phone models are flash-memory enabled?
Does anyone know which cell services offer these phones? I assume Cingular might be one…
Willard – it was actually Twin Pines rather than Twin Oaks. Still made me crack up, though.
until someone can verify this.. this is a semi-decent photoshop.
Just for kicks, I plugged my girlfriend’s IUD into iTunes and, turns out, it’s automatically recognized as ‘My IUD Tunes’ and has 512mb storage. Who woulda thunk it?
It ain’t no Photoshop job… I’ve seen the same screenshots in both English and French. It’s real.. I’m just curious about the term “iPod Phone”. This is more than the amalgation of cell phones and iTunes… the iPod is playing a part… somehow. Click Wheel anyone?
IUD as in “Intrauterine Device”?
The iPod Phone icon in the system preferences magically appears only when a phone is connected? This doesn’t adhere to iTunes standard — the iPod panel is there regardless of whether your iPod is physically connected.
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Really!? That’s fascinating because.. when my iPod is not connected, there is no iPod on the sidebar. And when there’s no iPod on the sidebar.. i can’t access the iPod button on the bottom right.
Furthermore, when the iPod isn’t plugged in, the iPod preference panel is pretty much useless.
In the same way ‘Ink’ appears in ‘System Prefs’ when you have a tablet plugged in?
Seems pretty consistent to me.
btw. That slider looks pretty similar to the one shown when you plug in an ipod shuffle
Mike – the preference button, not the sidebar. It is empty when the iPod’s not plugged in, but it’s THERE. If they were adding support for a phone as its own pref category, it should be THERE regardless of whether the device is plugged in.
SunSeeker – you’re right about Ink, but that’s OSX System Prefs, not iTunes. You’d expect them to use conventions within the app, no?
I still dn’t buy it.
The iPod Phone seems to be nothing more than a standard phone that iTunes can recognize and sync with. Given that the iPod Shuffle does not use it, I would not hold my breath for a click-wheel phone from Motorola or anyone else.
Mike – the preference button, not the sidebar. It is empty when the iPod’s not plugged in, but it’s THERE. If they were adding support for a phone as its own pref category, it should be THERE regardless of whether the device is plugged in.
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Yeah.. you’re splitting hairs. I just said the iPod prefs. panel was useless without an iPod, which is true. You’re not making any sense. It’s obvious that the iPod (the reason for iTunes’ existence) should have its own panel. But the phone?
It will be there in 5.0 because it will be pervasive by then.. but wait until the bloody thing is released man..
Plugged my Motorola v635 in which has transflash memory.
Mounted on the desktop but nothing happened with iTunes and iSync doesn’t recognize it.
Perhaps the models this works with could have been mentioned?
So and here: http://dl2.rapidshare.de/files/2766315/28025966/t_l_phone_dans_itunes.mov you can find a clip which is longer than the first and which show more stuff.
Enjoy