Is the Motorola E790 the iTunes phone?

Have you ever seen Apple put function before form? Apple knows that to make a great product you have to balance both. Would it make sense to introduce a new product in a new market, and make it look like every other ugly phone out there?

Well, don't know about the looks of this phone, but if they implemented the software on the SLVR-I'd be in line (even with the crappy camera). Saw this on the Motorola website for the SLVR. MP3 player to store, repeat, shuffle and play favorite tunes; 22Khz polyphonic speaker Up to 5 MB of end user memory; up to an additional 256 MB with a removable memory card Hmmm, sounds kind of iTunes compatable, eh? Its available in the 3rd qt. to boot :)

I own a V3 and used to own a v70 and in my experience the single worst part about them have been the UI. Its ugly, its SO slow, and my V3 has so many superfluous buttons that all do the same thing, but only in certain menus, and other things in other menus, its ridiculous. Any Moto iPhone is going to be a chore to use, and Apple, by association is going to get hurt by Motos crappy OS *sad face*

Why are most Tuawers putting Moto hardware way down ? Have any of you personally seen the E398 in person or owned it ? I got one myself and I think it looks great. This phone, E790 is built off the E398 (syncs with Address Book and iCal beautifully...), which is mp3 capable but the software sucks, so the iTunes of Apple in addition will make it much better. It even has a very good stereo loudspeaker for a mobile IMHO (if and when you don't feel like having the earphones on or those occasions when you want to share some tunes with friends...)

There's just no way that this is the new iTunes phone. When was the last time Apple put their name on a product that didn't make you go, "wow, that looks amazing!?" The phone in these photos gets anything but that reaction -- it looks like it could be three years old or something. You can bet that the real iPhone will be a head turner, not a "ho-hummer".

Tim O: Very plausible. I've come to expect beautiful hardware from Apple. Remember, too, that Apple is not determining the look of this product (as far as we know), and is just letting Moto use a mobile version of iTunes. Still, a sleek, sexy Ive influenced phone would rock.

I just want to quote a entry from the engadget comments, because I think it is a good one. 19. Posted Jul 3, 2005, 4:45 PM ET by Richard Something just occured to me. (i hope this is the case anyway). The iTunes phone has to be tested on the network so perhaps all these phones being leaked are just protypes to they can be tested, with the real beautiful phone being kept very secret. These phones maybe the same inside so this could make sense. This would also explain why these shots may have leaked.

Ericd - I've read the same. Is this the high or low end model? Oh, the suspense!

I've been reading that there will be a line of phones - so there could be low end and high end. Perhaps this would simply be one of them.