iTunes iPhone Mark II?
p2p news / p2pnet: Having bombed with the Rokr, is Apple now working up a mobile phone able to download from iTunes? And if it is, do you really need another handheld that blocks your freedom to listen to whatever you want on whatever device you choose?
Quoting Japan’s Nihon Keizei Shimbun, "Apple and Japanese telecom giant Softbank may be developing a new mobile phone that can download songs from iTunes," says CNET News.
The attempt by Apple and Motorola to introduce the ROKR mobile fizzled out and anyway, as the story points out, those phones couldn’t download via Wi-Fi.
But as per a Reuters interpretation, "the rumored Apple-Softbank phone would do just that," says CNET.
What isn’t clear, however, "is whether the companies are working on the long-rumored iPhone, or Mac Mobile, or whatever you’d like to call it. Many people, including Motorola CEO Ed Zander, think Apple will eventually release its own mobile-phone design, but thus far it has been content to partner with companies like Motorola and dominate the portable digital music market with the iPod."
Also See:
bombed – Motorola faces the music, January 4, 2006
CNET News – Rumor: Apple working on new iTunes phone?, May 12, 2006
