“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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