Steve Jobs, at the Apple press event in San Francisco today, talked to Madonna in London via iChat AV. Madonna has put all of her albums and songs on iTunes, which she had resisted until now, Jobs said.
Jobs also announced iTunes-enabled Rokr cell phone made by Motorola. The phone can hold 100 songs and has two speakers. “The way we think of this phone is it’s really an iPod Shuffle right on your phone,” Jobs said. The phone will be in U.S. stores this weekend. Cingular will be the U.S. carrier for the iTunes phone.
Jobs also announced iTunes 5 with new features such as nested playlists, automatic sync of calendar and contact info with Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, parental controls for explicit content and more.
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Ipod Nano just announced to replace the mini. 1000 songs. White. Color screen. Half the thickness of mini and 62% smaller by volume. 14 hour battery. Screen lock via click wheel.
iPod nano!
I told you it would be about 1000 songs in your pocket… again!
I want one!
I hope someone other than Cingular will carry phones!
Crap…only a hundred songs, and only Cingular…I need this to catch on so my lame carrier T-Mobile will get on board. The phone is a crappy open faced ancient looking phone…So disappointing…I was SO hoping for a video ipod…watching MP4s on the airplane…oh well, I’ll wait.
Andrew Hamilton
Las Vegas Videographers
http://www.hiproductions.com
100 songs?
Pathetic. Apple insisted on crippling the device.
iPod Nano looks cool. The phone is disappointing.
I’ll buy the nano and tape it to the back of my phone.
Nested playlists! WTF took ’em so long! At last I can get really organized. Or reorganized. I don’t think I’ve got the time to do it all again.
I think Apple did this phone release and the iPod nano release for one reason – massive hype over the phone leads people to the main website, from the BBC “breaking news” page and so on, and they drool over and buy the iPod nano…
The phone is so-so at best.
:o)
100 songs?
Pathetic. Apple insisted on crippling the device.
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Quiet you. It’s a phone first, and a music player second.
They should’a licensed ATRAC to fit more songs in … tee hee. Nano’s another nail in its competitors’ coffins … whoever they are. Geeze, I don’t even know … ahh … Creative?
About the phone. I like the idea of taping the nano to my current phone. LOL. Good one JohnE. Anyways, it is just a phone that gives you a hundred songs…probably keeps you from wearing out the battery. I’ll keep my phone and my iPod. I like my phone to be a good phone and I want my iPod to be my iPod.
The Nano is soooooo cool. I have a woody.
Who Cares? There is no damn way I would use my cell phone to listen to music anyway. Damn things give you a brain tumour. (substitute “tumor” for the American posters)