Comments on: Music To Our Ears?

By: Odvar

Odvar — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:28:11 +0000

The Rokr is a disappointing design. I’m disappointed that Apple paired itself with Motorola. Apple should have partnered with Nokia. Nokia pushes the envelope of phone design. Nokia design, like Apple, is innovative and a lot of the time unexpected and never-before-seen. Nokia, like Apple, takes chances when it comes to design. Check out Nokia’s N series, the 7360, 7370, 7380, and the 3250 for phones Apple iTunes should have been paired with. Motorola’s designs are standard… The Rokr design is standard!

By: ga

ga — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 01:48:21 +0000

Check out the new IPod Nano commercial (the one with the hands exchanging the product) – the music is by super talented guys, The Resource, out of NYC, with James Napes, from the UK. Even better, you can download a full length version of it on iTunes by going to the “Pop” section and searching “The Resource” and/or “Gimme That”.

By: deadpan walking

deadpan walking — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:08:11 +0000

Nokia’s n series (when it gets here) is going to be another force to contend with.

http://www.nokia.com/nseries/

By: Gareth Potter

Gareth Potter — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:09:33 +0000

jj,

Your comments are somewhat surprising – perhaps you are just trolling.

The ROKR doesn’t really have Apple’s name attached to it – it is crucial to bear in mind that this is not an Apple product. Hence the rather lacking design. Part of me is a little surprised to see them launching something that really is rather ugly, but – again – one must remember that this is all about taking iTunes in new directions. It’s almost like a proof of concept design that accidentally got released to the public…

As to the nano, I am not quite sure what figure you think would be appropriate for a player with this size-capacity ratio. I am actually quite impressed with the price, and indeed there are those who have observed that it costs less than equivalent CompactFlash cards. Or something.

Gareth

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:14:24 +0000

I had a phone 2 years ago that could do all that the Rokr can do! It certainly didn’t have a 100 song limit either. This phone looks truly ugly, just like most motorola phones, other than the razr maybe.

I was considering the Rokr as my next phone, but now i’ll wait for the new nokia N91, that has WLAN as well!

The nano is very nice, shame they couldn’t start with the nano design and add phone technology to that.

By: mac

mac — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:33:23 +0000

ipod nano, thats what I call a must have

By: jj

jj — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:18:11 +0000

This is arse. The ROKR is a piece of rubbish. It’s a year and then some old phone with a stupid iTunes button on it. I don’t care if it’s “not an Apple product” — their name is attached to it, and this is the first definitively uncool gadget they’ve launched in quite awhile. It’s a piece of shit and they should have just kept out of the phone game until they made something worthwhile.

The nano? Apple has the ability unlike no other to offer you less product for more price by wooing you with sexy cool and sexy small. It’s a very cool looking product and like all Apple gadgets, will no doubt melt your wallet as soon as you see one in person and in hand. But it’s a friggin’ TWO GIG MP3 PLAYER for TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS! I don’t care how small or cool looking it is … that’s a joke!

They could sell ice to Eskimos in the Winter, those Apple fuckers.

By: jbelkin

jbelkin — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:55:29 +0000

people want to be able to buy songs over the air but honestly, how many hundreds of millions of songs do you have to sell even at $2-$3 to make that infrastriucture cost back … can you imgine the tech support calls (sir, please go outside and I’ll try and re-download the song… or what do you mean you couldn’t figure the correct track from your 1″ by 1″ screen in direct sunlight?) … it all sounds good until you really think through the actual details.

how many hundreds of phones did Motorola create to get to the RZR, right? Apple would’ve designed something better but hey, if you want a battery draining choice (like playing games or surfing the net on a tiny screen), here ya go.

The ipod nano is pretty cool. anybody who disses it clearly just bought an Rio and is a little bitter no one on eBay will buy it for 10% of what they paid.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 01:17:38 +0000

If you want an ‘itunes’ phone buy a Sony Ericcson V800 – in the UK 3G mobile [100kbs] via bluetooth to powerbook on the move + mp3 player & memory card up to 1Gig. No way are Apple going to take the mobile market, that’s why nano is such a good idea but it does lack bluetooth which is a bad move with the number of phone cameras with bluetooth… T

By: Gareth Potter

Gareth Potter — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:42:01 +0000

BG,

The phone was never going to be anything more than this, given that we (always) knew it was going to be made by Motorola – and that’s intended both as and not as a sleight against that company’s offerings.

This is not about looks, either externally or on the screen. Rather, this is all about getting fingers into new pies, so to speak.

I’ll post more about this in due course.

Gareth