Filed under: iTS, Software, iTunes
iTunes phone upgrades only for non-U.S. phones with < 100 song limit
I hope no one ran out and bought a ROKR or slick new SLVR after last night's post about the ability to upgrade iTunes phones. Turns
out it was more or less a false alarm - at least for those who already have a phone with a 100 song limit. Eddie Cue,
iTunes' product manager, got in touch with Engadget to let them know that
yes, the upgrade exists, but it's only for non-U.S. iTunes phones that unfortunately had a song cap set at less than
100. Apparently, some phones were set as low as 25 songs, so this upgrade was meant to bring everyone up to the same,
yet highly limited, 100 song cap.I have to agree with Ryan's Engadget post though: if Apple wants to make any headway with this whole musicphone idea, that silly 100 song cap needs to go.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Twist said 1:20PM on 2-16-2006
This info is at least something for hackers to look into. If it is possible for Apple to change the song limit then it should be possible to come up with a hack to set the limit to something much higher than 1000 songs. This upgrade for the non-US phones should get hackers pointed in the right direction.
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Mark D. said 1:45PM on 2-16-2006
I thought it was Motorola tha timposed the song cap?
I could just be remembering poorly, kinda tired...
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Bob Goulden said 1:48PM on 2-16-2006
"If Apple wants to make any headway with this whole musicphone idea..."
...they should dump motorola and its 3rd rate operating system. Sure they put effort into the way their phones LOOK, but their OS engineers must be paid with peanuts. my old V3 had a thousand superfluous buttons and was the slowest phone ive ever owned.
I hear moto is heading toward a linux based OS all round, so we can pray
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X said 2:57PM on 2-16-2006
"If Apple wants to make any headway with this whole musicphone idea..."
Who says Apple wants Moto to make any headway?
1) They do not want the phone to compete with the Nano 2) Jobs doesn't like to license software to 3rd parties 3) I'm sure Apple wants to eventually sell their own phone... by placing limits on other phones, they have an automatic competitive edge.
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Barry Sim said 6:22AM on 3-14-2006
When are you guys going to help us not in the US to upgrade our SLVR's to have iTunes in the first place.
I would galdly have the 100 cap if I could get the upgarde to the standard SLVR's which are the only ones available to us at the moment.
Can't believe someone hasn't got a mobile iTunes hack yet to upgarde a normal SLVR OS to add iTunes.
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