Motorola RAZR V3i / V3t / V3e / V3r

I understand that, I just bought my V3i, and I should have by Friday, and I made sure that the one I am getting has itunes, and they are also going the configure media net, and mms for me. The main problem is it is completly random which has itunes and which one does not, so I am not sure it has much 2 do with Cingular.

kgamo said:
I understand that, I just bought my V3i, and I should have by Friday, and I made sure that the one I am getting has itunes, and they are also going the configure media net, and mms for me. The main problem is it is completly random which has itunes and which one does not, so I am not sure it has much 2 do with Cingular.

How are you getting one with iTunes now??? The only ones with iTunes are supposed to be for Cingular and not released until sometime around March.

How much are you paying for it?

I am getting my phone from simoncells.com, I do not want to quote the price so just check the site out, I got the phone for 75.00 lower then the listed price, because I have bought 3 ohones from them, check the site out for yourself.

Yeah thats pretty stupid that they would put two different things in the same phone. If you check the hellomoto website and go under the UK they have this phone up there and it says that it doesn't have iTunes, it just says that it has Motorolas digital music player. I think the states will just get iTunes (Cingular)

I am thinking that it just depends on the luck of the draw. I think that I got a slight advantage with getting my phone from simoncells, because of buying from them in the past, they are making surre the one I receive has itunes, I will find out for sure on Friday when I receive the phone.

they are not exclusive to cingular! lol


** The Motorola RAZR V3i is available with iTunes in ONLY the following markets:



Australia, NZ, Indonesia, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Turkey, South Africa, Rest of Africa, North Africa, Israel, Thailand, Middle East

Additional markets may be added at a later date. Please check with your local Motorola representative for additional information.

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you can find them with itunes on almost all of the online shops now including ebay. Just make sure if ithas itunes that is has a dedicated itunes key instead of the message key. if not someone flexed it to the phone.

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that is almost correct. itunes is a cingular exclusive but only in america. i got my first rokr directly from moto and it was a euro version with 900/1800/1900mhz bandwidths and it came with itunes but had a 50 song instead of 100 song cap. i know for a fact that itunes is cingular exclusive in america but overseas i think vadafone uses itunes also.

Well, I have an unlocked version of the V3i, running on T-Mobile, and I have iTunes...

Pretty sweet phone.

i have it with t-mobile and everything is absolutley perfect except that song limit... I am trying to figure out how to either hack away the limit or get the moto tunes on my phone also on top of the itunes it came with with a 50 song limit. anyone with some knowledge on this let me know!!!!! please?

almost correct. itunes is a cingular exclusive but only in america. i got my first rokr directly from moto and it was a euro version with 900/1800/1900mhz bandwidths and it came with itunes but had a 50 song instead of 100 song cap. i know for a fact that itunes is cingular exclusive in america but overseas i think vadafone uses itunes also.

Yeash, please keep us informed if the phone actually has the itunes software. I'm pretty convinced that none of the phones that are shipping contain the itunes software. There is a big misconception that V3i stands for itunes.

the one headed for cingular and vodafone most definately will. now if you buy directly from moto you'll have to specify if you want i tunes or not.

trust me, the DAP and SCREEN3 is much better than itunes. Not sure why you would want to use something that puts limits on what you can do with music you paid for. You can't even share songs phone to phone with itunes music. Then theres the 100 song limit!

Well I have an unbranded v3i phone, that has itunes so Cingular has nothing 2 do with itunes

it does have the 100 song limit!

Here's where I think the sticking point is: The phone comes with a 512 MB minSD card, which can actually hold about 250 songs at top storage, depending on how long the songs are and what compression ratio. MiniSD cards come in sizes up to 2GB, and the idea is that you could hold up to 1,000 songs on that much space. In practice, though, the SLVR and V3i have self-imposed 100 song limits on them. I'm not sure why they've done this, because it would be much better to able to store more songs with the excess memory.

The 50 or 100 song limit comes from Apple via iTunes because they dont want too much competition for their iPods. Its a deal they struck with Motorola (and Cingular, I think).
So I assume those V3i s WITHOUT iTunes wont have this limit. Can anyone confirm this?

Ray

Confirmed.
i have one with a 50 song limit ☹️ but im sure in 3 months some one will crack it. They craked the slvr to 1000 songs.

I have a v3i without iTunes, and I've got over 100 songs on my 512 card.

How do you like the Motorola Media Player (aka the non-iTunes player)?

I have a dell MP3 player, so I don't gain anything by having a phone with iTunes, I just want a phone that can conveniently play my mp3's and not limit the number of songs.

Thanks.

I would say the Motorola Media Player is "ok" but not great. There are 2 specific problems. One is that it only plays music in the MP3 format, so you cannot download music off of systems that have another format (e.g., WMA) that is locked. Also, the transfer rate from the computer to the phone is awfully slow. Beyond that, the player looks a fair amount like iTunes in the sense of being able to create playlists and organize music.

It's as much of a marketing gimmic as anything else. Essentially, by including iTunes on the phone, Motorola and Apple are cross-marketing one another.

Because V3i has iTunes as its base program, cell phone users who own iPods won't have to change their software in order to downloand music from their computer to their phone, providing an extra incentive for users who have a V3i or a SLVR to purchase an Apple iPod when and if they ever enter the market for a full-fledged personal music player.

This could also explain why the phone has a self-imposed 100 song limit, which would push more people towards buying iPods once they've "experienced" what Apple has to offer.

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My sons already have the new generation Video Ipods. I'm just wondering if there's a difference in the features of the two types of music players.

My sons don't have any trouble moving their music from the Itunes on their computers to their cell phones right now. I'm just wondering if the son who was supposed to have the V3i with Itunes is missing out on any great features by having the "non-Itunes" v3i.

He still has the option of exchanging it. He's leaning toward just keeping what he has, since the only difference we're aware of at this point is the ability to load songs more quickly (and with more detailed categories) with the Itunes phones. At this point, he's not sure he wants to send his back, and then wait for the replac...
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hi im new to this i just bought a phone the v3i from ebay n i dont have the itunes i bought it from wireles_expert i think laura bought one from them too n my phone didnt have the itunes either is there any way to install the program with out sending it back n laura what provider does ur son have cus i have AT&t blue and i cant use the m Mmode or MMS can any one help me