What a joke? Why would one of the phone carriers want to support Moto's plan when they have some of their own. iTunes has a lot of customer loyalty, so that name alone helped to sell handsets. Who ever heard of iRadio, or would care?

Umm, even with iTune's "customer loyalty", only cingular offered up the moto/itunes phone. Apple's supposed iPhone will be lucky to get them on board. And without a phone company subsidizing the phone, it will flop.

I would guess that the "put your own music on the phone" might be a sticking point when they try to get service providerst to adopt the new phone. Seems like that is always a sticking point in the past as they would rather you buy the music from them. Isn't that one of the reasons for the delays of the first iTunes phone?

another thing for moto to do poorly. huzzah!

another thing for motorola to do poorly. huzzah!

Testudo, you're wrong on this, Cingular wasn't the only carrier, the Motorola iTunes phones are being offered in other markets around the world, including the UK.

MacWorld UK reports that the V3i with iTunes has been successful, and no one is currently saying that those models are being discontinued.

Perhaps the USA isn't yet ready for such phones?

While I agree this is a dumb move by Motorola, I would like to see subscription option by Apple (am I the only one?)

Hopefully Apple teams up with other phone makers like Sony Ericsson and Nokia, who make superior phones. I really like the W600 and W800 Walkman phones, too bad their not iTunes compatible (yet?)

The other big news of the day being the Vongo movie streaming with Microsoft. A lot of people are bad mouthing it but I would be worried. It's sure to work right with the Xbox 360 which is alread a hit.

Apple, let's see what you have for us at MacWorld. I'm excited. It's the first MacWorld for me in 5 years.

this will be about as successful as Iridium.

Sounds more like a fit of CEO pique over the snub Apple gave to the ROKR (STNKR) rather than a well-thought-out strategic direction.

Motorola is like the French. They are a poor ally and a weak enemy...

This means that Apple can release their own phone or license to a decent phone manufacturer *glares at his RAZR and smiles at his Nok*. How bouts just itunes for symbian. Why bother working w/ the phone manufacturers unless they are going to produce what you want. As to the name...iRadio if there's no possible way to confuse a phone from a company that made an iTunes phone w/ that then there can't possibly be any way to confuse another phone called an iROKR iRAZR of whatever. Mot sucks and the RAZR is just a smaller star-tac (ORIGINAL ANALOG/AMPS). Too bad an American company couldn't compete for the global market because the FCC had was so bribed it thought having a 'different' standard..or even a bunch of them was acceptable. Want iden/nextel -> sprint...get a mot. Just sad. Whoever made their OS should be buried alive in discarded cells.

cebritt, you're a jerk, the USA probably wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for the help it received from the French during the War of Independence. For that matter, you might try a little research into where, exactly, that icon of America, the Statue of Liberty, actually came from.

Oh, and I'm British. So, F.U.

The thing that's worrying is that it may be another repeat of the HP-iPod deal - Apple just don't seem that good at being partners.

Personally I'm not that bothered (they're successful enough for me) but you can only get so far without partnering (it's a good way to disarm potential enemies / competition). It's annoying to go into a major computer retailer and see they don't stock iBooks or Mini's and knowing the sole reason is because of the low profit margins.

f*** off cebritt. Take your Bill O'Reilly bullshit and cram it.

https://helixcommunity.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=603

Motorola recently announced the release of the new Helix-based Moto ROKR E2. The Motorola ROKR E2 lets you switch seamlessly between phone calls and music play lists simply by the touch of a button. Based on the Linux operating system to enhance speed and flexibility, Motorola ROKR E2 also features a robust MP3 player, which uses the latest Cayenne version of the Helix DNA Client as the underlying multimedia framework and is compatible with a variety of different audio formats. The ROKR E2 also uses the RealPlayer(PC) as the desktop companion to synchronize playlists, music, videos and photos.