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New iTunes Phone?
Peter Rojas of Engadget fame has posted the above picture wondering aloud to the innermost ear of the Internet: "Is this the iTunes phone?"
If it is, you can tell that Apple had less to do with its design than Motorola did. I think it looks like one of the robot suppositories I've read about in Star Wars fan fiction of the most horrible kind. Scott, on the other hand, says he likes it, and that it looks like "a phone... FROM THE FUTURE!"
What do you think? Is this it?
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Pedro said 4:40PM on 6-29-2005
really.. this looks like something an xbox therw up. I hope its much cooler.
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Apple Speye said 5:04PM on 6-29-2005
no. fortunately, it looks nothing like that.
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Apple Speye said 5:04PM on 6-29-2005
no. fortunately, it looks nothing like that.
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JC said 4:41PM on 6-29-2005
That green/black one looks more like Microsoft's XBox team had a hand in it's design. While I don't mind the "candybar" style of phones, I just hope they stick with the clean white/titanium look and feel. Then again, if it is functionally "AWESOME" then it will make up for it's lackluster looks
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pnarse said 4:49PM on 6-29-2005
Yuck.
Should have let apple's design guys make the case. That phone pretty much sums up moto's usual design quality, and it sure aint tasty.
Agreed, it does look like some kind of xbox failure.
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Robert Knight said 5:01PM on 6-29-2005
Beep Beep Beep Beep
"Kirk to Enterprise. Get...me...the new Coldplay album."
Is that a green glowing click wheel on the front?
Weird. Talk about brand departure.
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VTJustinB said 5:32PM on 6-29-2005
Is it just me or does the dark color on the phone look like a skin?
If I remember correctly there have been several pictures similar to this floating around but it was a white/silver phone.
Maybe that's what it is for real.
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Dave said 5:32PM on 6-29-2005
We'll see if we get a cease and desist order. . .
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entica said 5:46PM on 6-29-2005
Personally, I really like the look of it. 99% of current phones look boring and much the same. I want something that screams different and in a futuristic way. I dig it. Too bad it will most likely never be available by a Canadian carrier, well, maybe in 3 years it might. *sigh* And you Americans think you have it rough being so behind the Japanese coolness with phones... try being behind Japan, USA & Europe. Canada sucks sometimes.
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Andrew Kaufmann said 5:49PM on 6-29-2005
That thing is fugly. I'd bet it's not real. Motorola designs lately have been really angular -- see the RAZR. Why suddenly go all smooth?
Something about that thing just strikes me as fake. I'd bet $1 it's not the iTunes phone that gets released.
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Pedro said 5:54PM on 6-29-2005
hey Apple Speye...
I hope your right... http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000610048760/
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LarriveeJP said 5:58PM on 6-29-2005
It would be nice to have something capable of playing ITMS songs that I don't have to worry about protecting.
I would worry a lot less about dropping/breaking an iPhone than my iPod. $35 to get a new iPhone using a handset replacement program vs. $300+ to replace a dead iPod.
Of course, being trapped by a Sprint contract it doesn't really matter to me either way. No way Sprint carries an iPhone in the near future.
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jc said 6:10PM on 6-29-2005
Maybe they should call it: iTumor
hmmm, it does have itunes and motorola in the name... maybe truth in advertising isn't as important as it used to be. ;)
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Tan The Man said 9:26PM on 7-01-2005
Man, that looks ugly.
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Small Paul said 11:52AM on 7-04-2005
Of course that's not it! Fake, fake pictures.
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