Filed under: iTS, Rumors, iTunes
Is this iTunes for Windows Mobile?
This appears to be a brief overview of iTunes running on Windows Mobile 5.0. Instead of the iPod-like interface that the ROKR uses, this looks more like iTunes itself. The author of the article notes that it was possible to play 1 GB of MP3/AAC files that were stored on a SD Card with this mobile version of iTunes. Also, searching for a specified podcast feed over GPRS was successful. Looks good. If only this was how the ROKR worked.
First a Windows powered Treo, and now this. It's mass hysteria!
Thanks to Jake and Zach!
Update: Here are some additional pictures.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Moosey said 11:50PM on 9-27-2005
Man I hope this is real. I'd get iTunes for my i730 in a heartbeat.
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threeze said 11:51PM on 9-27-2005
think anyone's going to create a fuss about the name of that German radio station?
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Brad said 12:21AM on 9-28-2005
That's pretty damn hot. If I hat a Windows Mobile phone, I'd download it.
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Adam Wyss said 12:33AM on 9-28-2005
will there be a verison for windows mobile 2003se? i know he said probably not, but i figured i'd ask it on here because maybe somebody else will know different. I really think that if this is real, apple should make it for windows mobile 2003 and 5.0 because not many 2003 devices will get the 5.0 upgrade, like my rx3115 for example. again, if they are smart they will because it will open up a much larger user base than if they only make it for 5.0
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drd21 said 2:19AM on 9-28-2005
i would say this is fake. just an fast coded app called itunes that displays pictures of photoshopped itunes interface parts, reassembled for the pocket pc display factor.
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Zeno said 2:27AM on 9-28-2005
C'mon guys, of course it's fake...
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Rune Solberg said 4:03AM on 9-30-2005
Why would Apple saw of the very branch theyre sitting on? Why supply the means to avoid paying for an iPod when you could get the software for free for your mobile phone? Thats just silly, I think it's a fake.
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Sven said 3:03AM on 9-28-2005
some more pictures with a playlist, shuffle, equalizer and embedded coverart
http://www.schrankmonster.de/PermaLink,guid,4f09e808-4431-4a6b-8cf0-ae09e2aad270.aspx
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Michael Katz said 3:39AM on 9-28-2005
I don't see why it couldn't be real, Apple could be branching out to make it avaliable to more masses on the go, why not? I hope that if this is real that it comes out for the Treo soon as well. Apple has iTunes for windows, so what makes it so Window's Mobile wouldn't exist? Apple doesn't have their own handheld OS anymore so they might as well make it for one. I see this as very likely.
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Marcello said 4:59AM on 9-28-2005
Guys... I want to believe but....
As far as I know (PLEASE correct me as I did not spend too much time researching) the model in the pictures is an "old" MDA (aka Qtek 2020 or Qtek 2020i), which does not support Windows Mobile 2005... In fact the first HTC-manufactured WM2005 will be the Universal model, which is for sure not the pictured one....
Also if you look at the first of the "new" pictures, you can see a misalignment between the playlist and the controls located in the bottom area.
Also, the Shuffle, Repeat etc buttons shown look to me the same size/proportions as the desktop counterpart... which take up a lot of space on a PDA... I would have resized them...
I might be wrong...but tell me what you think..
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Zeno said 6:01AM on 9-28-2005
Guys, I told you, it's fake! Look at what I did in Photoshop (in 5 minutes): http://zenonez.com/pics/iTunesForWindowsMobile.png . Next step is to simply add the Windows Mobile bars at the bottom and top of that png and and then open the image on the pocketpc in a fullscreen picture viewer...and you'll get this: http://www.schrankmonster.de/content/binary/IMG_3534_thumb.jpg .
There are some differences between the mockup I did and the one used on that site, because I based my mockup on screenshots taken from iTunes 5 for OSX, while the german guy used screenshots from iTunes for Windows...voil?.
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Henri said 8:06AM on 9-28-2005
Aw, Zeno! you just spoiled my day. I so much wanted to believe it was real!
:)
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Peter Koritschan said 8:02AM on 9-28-2005
Guys I agree this is fake.
1) Do you think Apple would do an iPod like interface for the Moto, and then for Win mobile would do more something like the desktop version of iTunes? Come on, no way, they love doing stuff standardized.
2) I agree on the issue of the buttons, too big for WIn mobile. Also, they would only make sense on Win mobile device with pen input, keyboard only would have trouble navigating this. I have Win mobile 2003 on my HTC handset (Orange C500), and the win media player which i used for listening to music before i got an iPod had only a play button... and u used the arrow buttons of the phone to navigate the playlist...
3) Why would they have separate play/pause buttons on a mobile device: like above said win media player, play/pause can be one button and completely sufficient for that use.
4) I say screw iTunes on phones, i prefer the iPod! I used to like integrated devices but seriously, dedicated devices are much more useful...
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don synstelien said 9:36AM on 9-28-2005
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G353251EB
please scroll down on the page. Does it seem odd to anyone else that there is a second item on thne page programmed in .net framework with an itunes look and feel that is almost identical to this one but obviously made with windows components?
Additionally, I've used the program that apple killed (iPoc or PocketPod I think... someone correct me) that emulated the iPod interface, wheel and all, and that has to be the best interface for this application.
-Don
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Herv? said 8:44AM on 9-28-2005
There are many existing skins, on a number of Palm mp3 players, that bluntly copy iTunes, and these have been available for *years*. I suspect this photo is just one of them.
Among litterally dozens of them (just google [palm "itune skin"]) I propose for instance http://www.pocket-tunes.com/skins/players/iTunes4_v3.shtml
If you want, I can publish a photo of my own palm with this skin on the mp3 player, and you'll be able to announce that in a bold move Apple and Palm team together to port iTunes to PalmOS :-)
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Nickolas Means said 9:27AM on 9-28-2005
To further the fake hypothesis, why would iTunes on WinMo have links to the iTMS (the little arrow to the right of the song title). While I suppose it's feasible to download a song via 3G, doing so over GPRS or EDGE would be painful, plus given Apple's ban on transferring content from mobile device back to home library, why would you want to?
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Marcello said 9:36AM on 9-28-2005
Nickolas, regardless of the fakeness of this particular one, I would expect a WinMo version of iTunes to have the ability to access the Music Store, considering that most PDA's have now wi-fi capabilities.
What is the ban you are mentioning? I am able to download from iTMS then copy the music over to my PC or Mac (both authorised on the same iTMS account)
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Michael Katz said 11:02AM on 9-28-2005
I started looking at it a bit more, it could be a screen shot since well the buttons look like that from OSX not from windows, though I do not know what the buttons would look like on WINMO. At least it looks like the standardized interface of iTunes 5. I think this could be a toss up, I would love to see iTunes on all mobile platforms since it would show Apple branching out but at the same time, you sort of have to wonder if it will actually happen yet.
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fra said 1:06PM on 9-28-2005
If apple ever launch this, I bet they would have a PDA in their labs running some sort of slimmed down version of OSX... please... Vista jokes aside
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shidoshi said 2:04PM on 9-28-2005
WAY too easy to fake.
For example, here you go: iTunes on PSP
http://storage.gomorning.com/pspitunes.jpg
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