Digital Home Thoughts: Apple and Cingular Announce iTunes Phone

This is actually yesterday's news, but after the shock and awe of the iPod nano, the iTunes phone was a rather anti-climactic announcement. Basically our worst fears have come true, mine certainly have at least. The long awaited and much hyped iTunes phone is nothing more than Motorola's ROKR E1 (pronounced "rocker" ). I can't say what a colossal disappointment this is. It had been my hope that Apple was working behind the scenes with Moto to design an actual iPod style phone. Imagine something that looked vaguely similar to the nano as a candy bar phone (drool). Instead we got this ugly monstrosity. And judging from early reports, it's not a good product. In fact, Steve Jobs had an embarrassing moment with the ROKR when the phone failed to resume playback during his live demo on stage at yesterday's media event.

Sounds to me like this product needed more testing. At any rate, the iTunes phone will always be, in my mind, the product that could have been. :cry: