Would you buy an iTunes capable phone?

Having just purchased a Treo 650 this past weekend to converge a PDA and Phone, I find the music capability to be a very pleasant surprise. Especially, being able to listen to streaming NPR (e.g. WAMU) radio stations using Pocket Tunes software. I've got 30 days to evaluate the Treo, but would consider returning it for a iTunes enabled phone, if that phone also had some basic PDA features (Address Book, iCal) which could be entered using a decent keyboard, and it supported Bluetooth internet dial up access via Cingular's network.

I would buy an iTunes phone if it were designed by Apple, and it were roughly the size of a Shuffle.

I don't think I would buy one. Not that I wouldn't love a phone that had 1st class music playback functionality, but because I suspect that US mobile phone carriers would find a way to screw me into only being able to buy music through their store over the phone (so they could get a cut of the profits).

Like several others have said, I won't buy a Motorola phone. Sorry, but they have the worst OS of any cell phone maker. This is also why I don't like the RAZR...horrible OS. Now if Sony Ericsson made the phone with Apple, I'd be all over that. Motorola...never.

I'd buy one is a second if: - Motorola let Apple pretty much reign on the design and UI. Moto's UI sucks, their overall design is getting better but still nowhere near Apple's. I'd much rather buy an Apple-designed phone... - It was on a CDMA carrier. Sorry, but in NYC you're better off not even having a phone than having a GSM carrier. There's basically zero indoor coverage from Cingular and T-Mo, even with Cingular's new 800MHz coverage. What's the point of an iPod phone if you can't make a call?

I agree with the anti-Motorola sentiments. I'm definitely not buying the Motorola iTunes phone. I will consider a convergence device, though, once it's well done. I'd love to see an iPod phone (not an iTunes phone -- as an earlier commenter noted), but if it's another slapshod effort of too many poorly implemented features, I'm not interested. I think eventually, we'll have the 5megapixel cameraphone with 60gig HD for music and photos and video and touchscreen and contacts and just this glorious device that will change my life, but I don't see myself giving up the iPod, the digital camera, and the cell phone any time soon.

i wouldn't dream of toting around an itunes phone. i would however consider an ipod with a phone in it. it wouldn't be that hard to implement, they only have to cram some phone technology in there too... come on, there's room!

Will someone tell me about the expected length of time the battery on this device will last between recharges? Every phone I've used has lasted a short time between recharges compared to my shuffle. I have never had the shuffle go dead; can't say the same for any phone I've used.

what do you think about this? ipod phone code hidden in itunes 4.9 http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/06/28.5.shtml

Can't I just have one device to do it all... My P800 was supposed to be my MP3 player (back in the day) but crashed a lot... if Apple have worked with these designers on hardware and sortware - and its sane and iTune-d and sleek; hell yes I'll sell my block of a Sony. If its just another feature on the box (we mac-o-fants may be taking this a little too serriously) who cares, no really. Who gives a damn!? ... bah -phones, give you cancer, right?