“I managed to get my hands on Apple iTunes for Windows Mobile 5.0. After the Motorola ROKR Apple seems to get seriously into the mobile phone business. As my sources tell there will be a special data rate for T-Mobile bundled with devices that come with iTunes,” Daniel Kirstenpfad writes in his blog. “The version I could test was iTunes for Windows Mobile 5.0 version 0.9. Although it looks pretty complete (everything (except bonjour) is in place and even podcast sync worked like a champ… it’s not a customer ready version. I don’t know anything about the release dates or announcement dates at the moment.”
“Some words to the graphical user interface: Apple decided to use the well known iTunes in favor of the iPod user interface. Since the buttons and functionalities are all where I expected them it’s as easy to use as the ‘big’ version of iTunes,” Kirstenpfad writes. “I did not have the time for an in-depth test yet but it seems that it is not limited in the way the Motorola ROKR is. Nevertheless I was not able to sync it with a PC/Mac iTunes yet since there are no drivers (and I haven’t got any) I successfully copied 1 GB of MP3/AAC files onto a SD Card and I could play it all. When I inserted the SD Card iTunes automatically searched for media files and rebuilt it’s library. After some seconds I could start listening… I so far was not able to actually buy anything in the apple store – iTunes just crashed when I tried. So there’s obviously more work to do for Apple.”
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Also more info and pictures in a followup article here.
Legit or a hoax? Please expound below.
Looking good, but when’s it getting to dk? What’ll be next..iTunes for Palm, or Linux maybe?
Looks fake. Why would they have a search bar in an application for a phone? It is a cut and paste job.
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MW: could. If they could, they would.
Is that brushed metal on iTunes 5?
Ahh… finally I can make iTunes crash in more than just Windoze.
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have a search bar the same reason you have a search bar in your phone contacts, ya moron.
MW: window – as in “infiltrating windows.”
Fake! Just parts of iTunes copy pasted around. In no way it shows that there has been put any thought on how to optimize use of the smaller screen. Very fake!
maybe it could be the future newton comes with itunes and other apps…maybe.
Legit
Maybe it’s a knock-off app in the same league as that one that gave PocketPCs a virtual scroll wheel
If this is real – where is the left to right scroll bar?
fake. as Kool said – just look at it yourself.
is this like the fake m$ gadgets?
I agree, fake, but it is a damn good job with the picture, the reflection is done nicely ont he screen.
To BriAnimations question, open up iTunes and look, it is brushed metal.
As a Apple purist for over 21 years, I shudder to look at something like this.
I have a special developer edition of iTunes running on the Sharp microwave oven in my motorhome. The interface is a bit quirky due to the single-line LED visual interface but this problem should be resolved by the time the software reaches beta. The U.I. translated quite nicely to the timer selection button panel of the oven. The frequency response is much better with the oven door open but an operational problem still exists – when the motorhome is lumbering down the highway at 70MPH the oven door swings around (and sometimes slams shut). I’ve forwarded these bugs to the Apple Developer Connection and hope to have workarounds to these minor problems. We’re working on versions of this software for use on home microwave ovens and hope to have that available soon.
Oh, and by the way, that Windoze Mobile iTunes is a fake (and not a very convincing one). What a waste of Photoshop.
iTunes for Windows or for cell phones isn’t going to stop someone from buying an iPod. Making iTunes available on a Windows Mobile device defeats the purpose of selling iPods!! Apple will never let that happen.
I’d like to get that microwave oven software when it’s available.
As for the fake Windoze Mobile, they cut and pasted an image together in photoshop and played it on the screen of whatever cheap crappy handheld that is.
I photoshoped up a custom T-mobile screen, bluetoothed it over to my Nokia and people think its real. It’s my daughter doing the fake T-mobile girl, just like that’s a fraud iTunes player.
Visual Basic for Windows CE could do that pretty easy and you could even make it play songs. It’d be easier just to make a .bmp inphotoshop and open it on the pda.
Unless this thing gets me up in the morning and wiggles my winky, I don’t really care. Man, I need an effin’ cup of coffee! Sumbitch!
Fake
Apple has made a pretty clear graphical direction for mobile devices. The phone and iPod software are similar looking. This looks clunky. There’s no source menu. If you want anything other than name and time, you have some serious horizontal scrolling. There is no way Apple would develop such a large, obtrusive interface for such a tiny screen.
Fake: They didn’t use the iPod interface, but the iTunes interface. That’s nice, but what about playlists? How can I navigate through my music? At least you should have a combination of the two interfaces.
MW: answer. What is the proble for this answer?
from the pictures:
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showing the toolbar
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paused @ 0:08
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playing @ 2:30
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