The Unofficial Apple Weblog has noted that Motorola showed off the iTunes phone at the D Conference. As far as I’m aware this is the first time the fabled ‘iPhone’ has been demo’ed anywhere, after Motorola claimed Apple didn’t show products until it was ready to launch them but everyone else speculated the carriers were stonewalling the handset. The fact that the phone is being shown confirms recent reports the launch date is set for mid July, a bit later than was originally projected (first half of 2005). According to the blog the cool bits of the demo are “it’ll have a speaker loud enough so you can play your tunes from your desk, and it’ll come with a 1 megapixel camera”. Also a hard drive, but that was expected. The branding question was left unanswered though…
In related news Apple has said the next version of iTunes (due out within 60 days…any bets on it coinciding with the iPhone launch) will support podcasts. iTunes will provide an easy way to find and subscribe to podcasts…”From the demo, we saw you could put podcasts under categories,” Bajarin said. “It makes it much easier to have, access, organize and sync podcasts to an iPod.”
Related stories:
–Online Music Is Mobile Music
–Mobile Phones Accused Of Planning iPod Death
Nokia Launches Mobile With Hard Drive
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