digital music/video
07/28/2005, 8:35am, EDT
Thursday, July 28th
iTunes phone expected at Virgin-sponsored event in UK
Motorola and Apple are set to debut the much-anticipated iTunes phone next month at UK's "V Festival," an event sponsored by Virgin Mobile, which will be one of the first mobile carriers to offer the phone. Citing an analyst report, TheStreet.com reports that the "iPod-inspired music phone -- which Motorola twice pulled from introductions earlier this year, apparently under orders from Apple chief Steve Jobs -- will debut in the U.K. next month." Quoting American Technology Research analyst Albert Lin, the report says that the planned venue is a four-stage Virgin Mobile-sponsored "V Festival" concert, which takes place from Aug. 20-21. Earlier this week, Motorola told analysts that the phone would be unveiled at a separate music event within the next 66 days and would be available in the third quarter.
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Oh, and by the time it does come out, the whole 'music revolution' will be so over with and everyone will be onto the next big thing.
I tuned in to the Motorola 'keynote' stream the other day. The happy-chat-QVC-shopping-channel presentation style was so second rate. And Apple is anything but second rate, right Steve?
I've been to this for most of the 10 years it's been running, and aside from two main stages, club and dance tents and a few sponsored tents (Bacardi etc) there's always a V Mobile venue which has a few bonuses and maybe some private performances: generally when you sign up for their mobile network, you get free entry to this for the weekend. I snuck in one year and had free cocktails and massages all afternoon!