p2pnet.net News:- If you’re a member of the mainscream media, be there, or be square. Because, "Speculation on what Apple Computer Inc. will do next with its popular iPod rose to a fevered pitch Monday after the firm sent out invitations to a special event," says the San Francisco Examiner.

Be where? San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Date? September 7. Time? 10:00 am.

So says AppleInsider, revealing the e-mail invites are headed up, "1000 songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again,” the slogan "1000 songs in your pocket" having been Apple’s intro to the the first 5-gig iPod in 2001.

"Sources had previously reported that Motorola and Apple would use the 7th of September to unveil the first of Motorola’s iTunes ROKR cell phones," says the story. "The phones will be the first product of Motorola’s strategic partnership with Apple, aimed at enabling music fans to transfer their favorite songs from Apple’s iTunes jukebox software to compatible Motorola mobile handsets."

"Roger Entner, a telecommunications analyst with Ovum, a market research firm, said he had been told by an industry executive that the new phone, to be made by Motorola, would be marketed by Cingular Wireless," states The New York Times. "Mr. Entner said it would include iTunes software".

We can see it now. Incidents of fatal collisions increase as users, feet tapping wildly as they listen to to Missy Elliot, hit the gas instead of the break pedal and lose control ; )

Meanwhile, iTunes never happened as far as the vast majority of online music lovers are concerned, and according to the NYT, Sprint says by the end of the year, it’ll be offering Wi-Fi music phones.

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See:-

San Francisco Examiner – Apple fuels buzz of mystery iPod, August 30, 2005
AppleInsider – Apple music event set for Sept 7, August 29, 2005
New York Times – An IPod Cellphone Said to Be Imminent, August 30, 2005

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