messiah

Seeing the amount of mac users on here thought I'd see if they know anymore about this.

Read that Apple have teamed up with Motorola to produce a mobile phone that could be launched as early as next month.

stevencotton

The Motorola PEBL, there is a Motorola press release showing the PEBL with the iTunes visualiser playing on the screen, don't think any details have been released yet. It's not a nice looking phone.

angrynorth

Are you talking about these pics?





I thought it would be white though, not making my mind up on how it looks though till I see one in the flesh.

messiah

Looks more like an XBox...

stevencotton

T'is the one. It's a flip-phone so automatically filtered out of my potential upgrade choice unfortunately, I don't like them.

What I want is 20GB iPod-sized (although slightly less in the width) toy where the entire front is a colour, wide-touch-screen for video/music playback. And be a phone as well of course, and no camera.

angrynorth

It's not a flip phone, if you look closely you will see that the keypad is embedded in the scrollwheel.

I too would like to see a widescreen device like you describe but I'm not arsed if its a phone or not. In fact I think I would prefer to keep my phone and my MP3 separate.

stevencotton

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000910048509/ shows it opened up, the burgundy model in the pics above is part opened as well, unless there are different versions?

angrynorth

Ah, I see where the confusion is here, the one you posted to is the PEBL model, not an iTunes phone. In fact the PEBL is already out in the US.

It's a completely different phone the iTunes one is supposedly the ROKR model. All the new (top of the line) Motorola phones have these 4 letter words/codes. RAZR (thin as a razor), PEBL (shaped like a pebble and just as smooth), ROKR (rocks to music) and so on.

ru'

Apparently the latest iPod/iTunes update includes various hidden messages for a phone (obviously not used at the moment with current hardware).

stevencotton

Ahh I see, I had connected the wrong phone to the blurb But yeah, I had noticed the naming convention

angrynorth

Thought you would have done, I didn't mean to sound patronising. I quite like the naming thing myself, I just wonder what they will come up with if they do a P900 type thing. CMPTR? No, PUTR, SMRT? I don't know but I guess they will run out pretty quick

stevencotton

There are still a lot of phones they can make ... BOOB, WEED, CHAV, etc, but for some reason it reminds me of the Ikea naming scheme