Cingular has debuted the Motorola SLVR L7 iTunes mobile phone for US$199 (2-year contract required).
Features include:
• iTunes Digital Jukebox – play, sort, store and manage music
• VGA Camera with 4x digital zoom, video capture and playback
• Bluetooth wirelesss synchronization
• Download games, MP3, ringtones and streaming video
• Mobile Instant Messaging using AOL®, Yahoo!® and ICQ® Instant Messaging
• Sleek ultra thin RAZR like design
• Multimedia Messaging – send text, pictures and sound
• Pre-installed 512 MB Micro SD card for extended memory
• Store up to 100 songs on removable Micro SD card
• iTunes synchronization with your computer via included software
• Shuffle music library or select songs by artist, album or playlist
• Mobile email and browser
• Built-in stereo speakers
• Brilliant TFT color display with 262k colors
• Voice activated dialing and speakerphone
• Customizable music and wallpaper
• Music pauses for incoming calls then resumes
Specifications:
• Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Dimensions: 4.5 x 1.9 x 0.45 inches
• Talk Time: Up to 6 hours
• Standby Time: Up to 17 days
• Warranty: 1 yr on the phone and accessories
• Quad Band International Phone – GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• GPRS Class 10 Data Rate
• All talk, data and standby times are approximate and depend on network configuration
More info here.
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Yeh-heh-hehesssss . . . I like black phones. They match my silky black fur and combat boots. Of course, we have to see if Motorblowla screwed de pooch on this phone like they did de last one.
I’m telling you, sometimes it seems like this company’s run by de same people who set up Ronco. I wonder if they’ll be offering a dehydrator as a high-priced add-on?
Ohh, yeh-heh-hehessssss, I almost forgot: First Post, Nerds!!!!
Now, go order my CD.
Hmm, considering that Palm has switched to the annoyingly bad Windows Mobile Edition, this sounds like a pretty good option for me
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That’s more like it, but are those stupid 100 song limits still in place?
Kewwwwwwwlll . . . kind of looks like Darth Vader’s phone.
Triumph- I bought your CD.
What if I want a refund?
Much better looking than the ROKR!
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that Apple put the 100 song limit on there so that it wouldn’t compete with the iPod.
Hey, Kip- I thought I smelled you out and about last night. So I’m assuming de gland surgery didn’t take?
Yeh-heh-hesssss . . . Nice try, Nerd. NO REFUNDS for dorks who already opened de CD and ripped my masterful comedy into iTunes. Now either get to school if you’re a D-student, or go back to sleep if you’re an adult. De welfare office hands out de checks until 4:00 and you can still catch another 40 winks.
Either way — I POOP on you!
It uses MicroFlash, so you can buy more memory to fit more songs. It probably has a 128 MB card. pick up a 512 card and you-re good to go!
i really don’t see the point in limiting to 100 songs tho, they say so it doesn’t compete, they don’t make the cards in 1 gig sizes so it would only just compete with the lowest level shuffle and nothing else, and why differentiate yourself from the market in such a bad way?
Apple never placed the 10 song limit on the ROKR did they? I thought MOTO was the one that did that??
Looks sexy. I like the RAZR better though. I like a flip phone that protects its keys from accidental presses without having to constantly lock and unlock the keypad.
The limit on songs is Apple’s decision…can’t threaten the iPod, no siree, so we have to cripple you unnecessarily. So sorry. You have no options anyways so whatcha gonna do?
Apple is not unique in this regard:
http://www.slate.com/id/2133754/
“…if some of your products are cheap, you may lose money from customers who would willingly have paid more. So, businesses try to discourage their more lavish customers from trading down by making their cheap products look or sound unattractive…”
The 100 song limit is unattractive, thus people who buy the phone are still tempted to get an iPod. But can it last? Lookit, the Chinese have copied everything, including our military technology. They will eventually produce an inexpensive phone that stores 5000 songs, has good battery life, and has pleasant software. They ain’t there yet, no, but they will be one day. And digital mobile music players will be a commodity, just like…computers. I plan, however, to be one of the 5% who still buys iPods in 2016.
I love Apple. With that said, THERE IS NO EXPLANATION TO THE 100LIMIT SONG ACCEPT TO SAY ITS APPLES DOING. Think abuout it….OK! I agree!!!
Use your freakin imaginations, people. Why not combine tracks from each album into one long song. They you can load 100 albums, or until the memory capacity is reached.
very nice improvement, but not quite there yet. I like my razr and my 5g iPod.
my silver V3 is for sale..any one want to buy?
You know that it is also a camera as well as a MP3 player don’t you?
If you have to store photos, you have to have room on the memory stick for that too.
The 100 limit was NOT Apple’s decision. That is based on fear by music executives who are afaid people who are going to blue-tooth their music to friends.
Apple has the most liberal DRM in the business.
Second of all, a freaking VGA camera? I wouldn’t even put a VGA camera in an iPod Shuffle, let alone something more sophisticated!
Bozos.
Steve
I just bought a RAZR… but I think if this had been out it would have tempted me. I have a preference for flip phones, but the 5.5 MB of memory and lack of expandability on the RAZR certainly looks pretty poor next to that phone.
I like shiny things. This looks like it’ll get the sh!t scratched out of it though.
My question is:
How is email pushed to the phone? I am used to the t-mobile/Blackberry webclient, where you set up the IMAP/POP accounts and the webclient forwards you new mail, as well as having it’s own email address. Is the cingular set up the same? And can anyone say what the web browser is capable of? Surely HTML (and not WAP)?
100 song limit.
USB 1.1 only.
garbage.
It is rather nice looking though. The last one looked like ass.
^ Who’s ass?