Motorola Keeps On ROKN
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no i Tunes
Do you think that they will add the iTunes software to this phone? Is that not the whole point of the Rokr phone? They are coming out with a new Rozr that has iTunes, why would they take it off for this?
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raulrJan 3, 2006, 3:05 PM
The Rokr line of phones are specialized for music, not necessarily iTunes. The Razr V3i is not a Rokr phone, yet has iTunes. It is not optimized for music as the Rokr series is supposed to be.
With the Rokr E2, music specific optimizations include 3.5mm headset jack, dedicated playback buttons, dedicated music player launch button, A2DP, very long music playback times (battery capacity), and so forth.
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Me2Jan 3, 2006, 3:14 PM
Itunes+Rokr was a deal with apple. Apple made motorola impliment some limitations on the original rokr that hurt sales. Like the 100 song cap. Apple was afraid that it would compete with their precious baby Ipod. Motorola is just continuing with the ROKR line with or without apple. If Itunes is your thing, don't worry... there are other itunes phones in the mix
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you could also use jhymn to use itunes files on any mp3 player
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FYI!
The big gap: iTunes. The E1 was the easiest-to-use music phone ever, thanks to its seamless integration with Apple's popular jukebox. But even at the E1's release party, we heard about tensions between Motorola and Apple, mostly surrounding the artificial 100-song limit Apple imposed on the phone. While the E2 plays "a variety" of music formats, according to Motorola, and you can drag and drop songs to the phone, you lose the effortlessness of syncing your iTunes playlists. With iTunes absent from the E2, Motorola plans on using the iRadio Music Service to keep the playlists coming.
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god. the ROKR achellies heel was iTunes. the phone was extremely slow and there are many problems with the whole "listening to music" aspect on the phone. sure you can do it, but how much fustration are you willing to stand to actually listen to music.
look at running itunes on your computer: it's a system hog. think about how slow the interface is on the RAZR, then try adding iTunes to the mix. bad idea. im glad to see moto getting their acts together and finally make a sweet phone. i am sad the ROKR is dead. but im glad the E2 actually looks like they have things right.
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