First Look at iPOD Phone?
Have we caught our first glimpse of the upcoming Motorolla/Apple iPod Phone merge?
From purportedly leaked internal documents, here’s a first look at the Motorola iTunes phone. The most striking feature is clearly the scroll wheel, which could come into play for even non-music things like moving through stored phone numbers. There also appear to be dedicated buttons on the side—that’s not quite as ‘iPoddy’ as one would hope.
Specifically, it appears that iTunes 4.9 is happy to recognize certain flash-memory enabled Motorola phones as an ‘iPod phone.” When one AppleInsider tipster connected his Motorola cellphone to his PowerBook he was taken back as iTunes 4.9 automatically launched and prompted him to provide a name for the phone.
After a name was provided, the phone registered itself in the main iTunes window below the iTunes Music Store icon, the tipster said. He was then able to transfer a number of music tracks to the phone and access the iTunes “iPod Phone” preference dialog (shown below).
Based on the preference dialog, it appears that users of an iTunes compatible phone will be able to view album art on the phone. They’ll also be able to choose how much flash-memory space should be reserved for music tracks verses data.
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Appleinsider | MacObserver