“The U.S. mobile operator Cingular has lowered the price of the Motorola ROKR, better known as the iTunes mobile telephone, by 40 percent,” Tom Sanders reports for VNUNet. “When the phone was initially introduced, Cingular started selling it for US$249.99 with a two year contract. Over the past weekend, the operator cut the price by $100 to $149.99.”
Sanders reports, “The $250 price tag combined with a storage capacity that is artificially capped off at 100 songs caused consumers and reviewers to shun the phone. In the UK, O2 sells the phone for free with a 12 month contract. Motorola sold about 83,000 ROKR phones per week in the first weeks after the official unveiling. The firm’s top-selling RAZR on average sells 500,000 units per week… Meanwhile, Motorola hasn’t given up on iTunes software on its mobile phones. The forthcoming RAZR V3i and the SLVR L7 are expected to be the second and third Motorola models to feature that Apple software, although it will be up to the operator to decide if the RAZR will include the software or not. The new RAZR is scheduled to start shipping later this year.”
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