“Japanese Web and telecom conglomerate Softbank Corp. is working with Apple Computer Inc. to develop mobile telephones with built-in iPod music players, Nikkei reported on Friday. The music-playing phones can download songs from Apple’s iTunes Music Store, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said in an article posted on its Web site,” Reuters reports.
“A spokesman for Apple in Cupertino, California, was not immediately available to comment,” Reuters reports.
Full article here.
Appleinsider reports that the phone(s) in question will be a 3G cell phone combining features of the iPod and Cell phone and is expected to be released in Japan “sometime this year at the earliest” and in the U.S. at a later date.
Full article here.
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And from the look of those screenshots, MS is taking even more design cues from Apple – “black glass”, reflective surfaces, white text on black translucent backgrounds …
They don’t do it as well, of course.
Anything and everything Microsoft is soooooo last Millenium, don’t waste your breath “Vista”.
Well, 130 CD quality radio stations (and not in some crazy format that looks like a bad Excel spreadsheet), album stacks, type as you go search, and preinstalled on every Windows box in existence when released. iTunes is gonna get schooled.
Now go patch..
“Apple flaws put both Macs and PCs at risk”
Patches arrive for more than 40 holes affecting QuickTime, used by Apple and Windows systems, and Mac OS X.
patch your own hole please
SOLSON:
You got my attention, but the link isn’t working.
Umm, maybe like, cause it’s not real?
and when will vista be out exactly dickhead?
and will it be ipod compatible?
vista = pig with lipstick.
Thx carlo, always nice to get the perspective of the trailer park. Betcha’ plates & stuff balance nicely on your flat head.
Vista, you don’t know the history of trailer park, I do.
“type as you go search”
Like iTunes hasn’t had that from the start.
“preinstalled on every Windows box in existence when released”
So were previous versions of WMP but that didn’t stop iTunes from taking over. “Preinstalled” doesn’t equate to “better”.
My appendix was pre-installed but still useless.
Softbank denies rumors:
http://www.i4u.com/article5636.html
Hey man, if you’d stop grabbing at me for 5 seconds maybe you’d type faster.
Aak! C’mon man, not that picture of Bill Gates again! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!