“Normally, an iTunes update wouldn’t be much news. But this one has lots of mentions of a ‘mobile phone’ that can play video and display pictures. As far as we know, the ROKR and RAZR V3i can’t do that,” Jason Chen reports for Gizmodo.
Here’s a taste of the strings:
“4301.022” = ” ^0 was not copied because the video format is not supported by the mobile phone ^1 .”; “4301.043” = “Are you sure you want to manually manage music and videos on your mobile phone? You will need to manually eject your mobile phone before it can be disconnected safely.”; “4301.045” = “Are you sure you do not want to manually manage music and videos on your mobile phone? All existing content on the mobile phone ^1 will be replaced with content from your iTunes library.”
Full article with more examples here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “raddoc” for the heads up.]
Note: On Tuesday, September 12, 2006, we reported that Apple’s iTunes 7 installer showed ‘iTunes Phone Driver’ as a greyed-out option. Interested Mac users can see what Chen describes above for themselves by showing the package contents (right-click) of iTunes 7.0.1 and navigating to Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ and opening Localizable.strings in TextEdit.
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I can’t wait for the iPhone! Come on Steve! Unleash the new wonder!
no way, first post? that never happens to me
mdn word: soon, as in, we might see the iphone soon?
We’ve already been over this, the iTunes Phone Driver is for the Motorola phones with iTunes. This is new though.
The thick plottens.
O/T: On CSI:NY an iPod is used in a bank robbery to shatter the glass cases in a jewelry store using an MP3 with a special sine wave. Next up, Enderle declares iPods unsafe around glass objects. His head then explodes.
And it’s only going to be for Cingular…
Gotta love the US cellular network.
I’m regally pissed about that too, because it’s just about time to get a new phone, but with Verizon, I’m REALLY left out in the cold, especially with their proprietary bs.
im waiting…
I switched from ATT/Cingular (I was on the older ATT network at the time) to Verizon and love Verizon’s network. However, I am furious at the fact that Verizon disables the phones ability to transfer pics and ringtones via the built in bluetooth or via the USB port on the 3 motorola e815 phones that we bought. My contract is up in a short while and I am going to go back to Cingular and get one of these phones. I don’t have an iPod so this phone will solve two problems for me: iPod AND dumping Verizon.
I hope that if the Apple phone has bluetooth or a USB port, Cingular doesn’t disable them.
– Mark
Where is Neo when we need someone to put all these news in a fantastic futuristic conext about the future of the internet and how is going to lead the way forward and rule the digital world. Come on Neo. Write like you used to — using your imagination and connect the dots — before the editor at maximum broke you down into writiing boiler plate unimaginative transcriptions of patent applications. What does the iPhone mean? Will it talk to iTV? Will handheld mobile OSX someday carry our home directory and all our files and applications?
“But this one has lots of mentions of a ‘mobile phone’ that can play video and display pictures. As far as we know, the ROKR and RAZR V3i can’t do that,” Jason Chen reports for Gizmodo.”
Maybe I’m just crazy, but my RAZR V3 plays video and displays pictures just fine.
Dyslexic Ampar is backing talkwards he………….You crack me up man!
Why do you keep harping about the greyed out option?!
As has already been stated countless times:
1. It’s not new
2. It’s for the Moto phones
Stop dredging it up, it’s not evidence of anything.
V-Train I have a Motorola ROKR but when I installed iTunes 7 the iTunes Phone driver was grayed out for me too. Admittedly my ROKR was not plugged in at the time but surely it would not have to be for the plug in to be installed with every new version of iTunes.
Those who say “videos and pictures are on my razr already” you are right but u cnt sync those from itunes. And also if u guys followed the instructions and actually read the file it also showed that you can sync games to a mobile phone. And before any of you bozos scream i have games on my fone. Remember that Stevie J said the games were designed for the click wheel, the ROKR and the SLVR dont have a click wheel. So now that the point is proven y dont you all shut up.
Why the heck are thing like Andrew Parrot and the Beach Boys now listed as “Explicit” in iTunes 7.01. Granted they weren’t my purchases – wife and kids – but…!
MDN word: foreign. Pretty foreign so far.
Sorry that should read Andrew Parrott for whatever it’s worth – nothing, I know!
The following comes from iTunes 6.0.5. There are 10 references to video (see below), and heaps more for a range of other media types. Relax
“4301.113” = “Are you sure you want to enable automatic updating? All existing videos on the mobile phone “^1” will be replaced with videos from your iTunes library.”;
“4301.115” = “Some of the videos in your iTunes library were not copied to the mobile phone “^1” because they cannot be played on this mobile phone.”;
“4301.116” = “Some of the videos in your iTunes library, including the video “^1”, were not copied to the mobile phone “^2” because they cannot be played on this mobile phone.”;
“4301.117” = “Some of the songs and videos in your iTunes library were not copied to the mobile phone “^1” because they cannot be played on this mobile phone.”;
“4301.118” = “Some of the songs and videos in your iTunes library, including the item “^1”, were not copied to the mobile phone “^2” because they cannot be played on this mobile phone.”;
“4301.119” = “Click More Info to visit http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n301461 for more information on creating videos compatible with your mobile phone.”;
“4301.122” = “Are you sure you want to enable automatic updating? All existing songs, videos, and playlists on the mobile phone “^1” will be replaced with content from your iTunes library.”;
“4301.123” = “Click the Help (?) button below for information on converting videos to work with your iPod.”;
In other news… Apple Computer has changed their name to just “Apple” after the successful purchase of Apple Records and the dropping of Macintosh computers from their consumer product line.
Phil Shiller Jr., Apple’s new CEO, has this to say: “We have successfully transfered into a pure consumers products company. No longer are we tied to making computer products, we have branched out into all sorts of areas from perfumes to soccor balls to joy jelly. All sporting the familiar Apple logo.”
When pressed about the dillution of the Apple brand, Phil had this to say: “It worked for Microsoft”
Apple shares dropped another 15 percent in heavy trading.
@Not So fast:
Haven’t they been saying something about the iPhone for a long time? Like two years in development. Maybe the software side was compleated before the phone bugs were worked out so they added that way back then. I know one thing they’ll have to overcome: when my phone is about to ring/is ringing and it’s close to my iPod, it causes the volume to change, like I moved the click wheel, this is the same type of thing as if a phone is close to a speaker when it gets a call.
The iPhone has been “under development” for awhile. It will be interesting to see, I’m holding out until the start of Q2 to buy any other phone.
How about Apple putting those strings in there for YOU people to find and after a couple of weeks when the investors find out about it the Apple stock get a small boost?
We’ve been hearing about this iPhone for what seems to be a decade now. It will come, just wait and see but don’t even try to predict when.
Now move along!
Dear Steve,
Can you please put the ‘i-Chat Video phone’ in my Christmas Stocking nice & early, so I can use right away,
Thanks, dix99
“4301.022” = ” ^0
Isn’t that a Rush song?
@ Other Daily Newz,
Take your dreams of somewhere else will you. Mac is at the CORE of everything Apple does. Ans as you already know, as the worlds most advanced and secure operating system, you know you talk like air from your ass.
Oh, and Apple are up another 3/4 of a $ today. So much for your abilities.
“O/T: On CSI:NY an iPod is used in a bank robbery to shatter the glass cases in a jewelry store using an MP3 with a special sine wave. Next up, Enderle declares iPods unsafe around glass objects. His head then explodes.”
Not just the iPod, but also the Apple boombox was used, the Hi-Fi. Now, if any acoustic engineers are hanging around here, is it actually possible to throw a high-pitched sine wave (dogs reacted to it in the show) with enough decibels using a Hi-Fi? Curious people want to know….
http://googlevideos.blogspot.com/2006/02/mythbusters-break-glass-with-voice.html
All you need to know!
One feature in iTunes 7 I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere else: iTunes now syncs Podcast information back from your iPod. It had always synced it to the iPod, so that you can start listening to a podcast on your Mac, then transfer the podcast to your iPod and continue from where you left off. Now it syncs both ways! This is awesome, because I don’t always finish my podcasts at work.