We’ll admit the iPhone wasn’t much of a surprise and apparently numerous companies were prepared to steal Apple’s thunder with their own product announcements. One upcoming handset that might make many reconsider joining the iPhone crowd is the new Motorola Z6 music phone, which has been optimized to operate with MTV’s Urge music store. The quad-band GSM EDGE slider runs on the Linux Java OS, features a 2.2-inch LCD display and offers 60MB of user memory, plus a microSD card slot that will ensure you’ll have room to bring along your favorite music. The phone is also PlaysForSure compatible, and will play any pay-per-track song, as well as those you rip to the MP3 or ACC formats. The carrier will likely be Cingular in the US, and while this handset will be the rage in Asia later this spring it won’t be available in the US until the fall.
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Peter Suciu
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January 10, 2007
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60MB and a microSD card slot that will ensure you’ll have room to bring along your favorite music… are you kidding me? Who listens to music on their cellphone? Really… who? I don’t know a single person who does so. EVERYONE has an iPod shuffle, nano, or ‘big boy’ iPod. You gotta be kidding me. Cellphone manufacturers who DONT have an iPod in their repertoire of ‘things to add to a cellphone’ had better bend over, look forward and kiss their asses goodbye. Sheeesh.
Well said Russ.
That’s funny! The stupid Motorola can’t even get hold of Nokia, and now talking bullshit to compare with iPhone which has iPod built-in??
Sorry… I rather pay more to buy an iPhone than buying a stupid junk!
Russ:
I know many people that actually do listen to music on their cell phones. If you walk around many college campuses, you’ll see more than a fair share of people who use their phones as music players. A lot of the music phones out today actually have pretty decent music players, so don’t trash an item you really don’t know much about.
In addition, the difference is that none of us here will own the iPhone, because of the 500-600 cost. These other phones cost a heck of a lot less than that, and even less with the contract.
Regardless of whether anyone uses their cell phone as a music player, PlaysForSure and Urge have limited markets compared to the iPod/iPhone coming soon. The point is, these specs (60 MBs and a 2.2 inch display) are not comparable to the new Apple product (4 GBs and 3+ inch display). They should not have been mentioned within this obvious regurgitation of the Moto PR announcement.
Does someone from Moto run this site? (This is my first visit here)
~Pedro
One word: Java.
Good bye.
iPhone is available with Cingular ONLY!? And what if I am stuck under contract with a carrier OTHER than Cingular but still want a iPhone?
Well, the only solution I could fine was http://www.Cellswapper.com – they get you out of any cell phone contract!
First off, I can’t stand Apple or Jobs. So I can’t figure out what is so cool about the iPhone, it’s not like Apple invented something never done before, the only thing they did was hook it up to iTunes. BFD. I hope the real cellphone companies eat their lunch. Jobs gets up at Mac world and acts like he invented fire and the Apple faithful do backflips. What a joke.