Dialog instructions buried inside version 4.9 of Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL)iTunes software give clear evidence that some type of "iPod Phone" does exist and will use iTunes to synchronize not only music but contact information as well, The Mac Observer has learned.
A resource file that is included with iTunes 4.9 contains instructions that will be displayed to a user based on certain tasks. Among the wordage includes: "iPod Phone Prefs," " iPod Phone iTunes Setup Assistant ," "The mobile phone cannot be ejected," "Eject mobile phone," "iPod mobile phone," "Mobile Phone Updating contacts," "The name of my mobile phone is...," "Open iTunes when this mobile phone is attached," and "Display album artwork on this mobile phone."
Transfers Synchronized
Other instructions include, "iTunes will automatically fill your mobile phone with a random selection of songs from your library. You may fill your mobile phone with a different selection of songs by pressing Autofill in the mobile phone playlist."
In addition, the instructions make it clear that iTunes 4.9 will be used to not only synchronize with an iPod Phone to transfer music, but also to transfer contact information, instead of transferring music through iTunes and contacts through iSync, which Apple previously did.
What is also not known is if synchronization will happen via USB or via a wireless Bluetooth connection.
The wordage clearly shows that a wireless phone with the ability to synchronize with iTunes does exist. What is not known is if the "iPod Phone" is a product being developed solely by Apple Computer, or the much-anticipated mobile phone offering soon-to-be-announced by Apple and Motorola (NYSE: MOT)
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Translated said:NetNewsWire developer over the Podcast support of iTunes [size=-2] contribution of: STR[/size] [size=-2] Wednesday, 29. June 2005, 10:33 o'clock[/size]
Bernt Simmons, the developer most successful RSS readers of all platforms - NetNewsWire - expressed itself via own mailing list over iTunes 4,9. Since NetNewsWire can be used also as Podcast Client, the question arose, in as far from iTunes and/or NNW now for it was more suitable and whether a new competition does not construct itself here.
Bernt did not load iTunes 4,9 so far yet, thought it however following over it:
1. Why shouldn't one iTunes for RSS feeds only for Podcasts exists to use?
2. For feeds beside Podcasts also the text or other content supplies is NetNewsWire the better choice, because NetNewsWire is perfectly for feeds to be also directly read wants.
3. I do not see NetNewsWire and iTunes as a competitor. NetNewsWire is a RSS reader during a iTunes audio Player and manager is. They overlap only with the downloaden the Podcasts, but is not called, which or NetNewsWire of iTunes iTunes NetNewsWire can replace and/or will.
4. In the future RSS will offer still more functions and possibilities still for much different one than Podcasts, will be NetNewsWire likewise there thereby.
Differently said: We are maintained also further RSS Multimedia solutions and Podcast features in NetNewsWire. The support of Podcasts are not the main functions of both applications, NetNewsWire and iTunes. Also all do not hear via iTunes their Podcasts.
I think, it am cool, which has iTunes now this function, and I understand the people those iTunes for Podcasts use, if it is so quite them, if it makes constituted simpler from Podcasts and if the person nothing constitutes it, not to be able to read the text of the feed.
Still another reference to that iTunes Phone into iTunes 4,9 [size=-2] contribution of: STR[/size] [size=-2] Wednesday, 29. June 2005, 09:44 o'clock[/size]
Colleague Leonhard Becker of fscklog.com has, from Sven s. Porst found, further reference to iTunes Phone a support into iTunes 4,9 discovers.
Sven s. Porst has found out that if one limits the color dissolution of the monitor to 256 colors and regards then the Podcast attitudes of iTunes 4,9, there now a silver Motorola RAZR watches is!
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Now naturally again the question arises: at this night is the discovered photo of a possible iTunes Phone only one prototype and will the final iTunes Phone nevertheless white or silver as iPod, or to Motorola directly several iTunes capable mobile phones in different Designs will present?
Motorola iTunes mobile phone: Picture emerged & Domain registers [size=-2] contribution of: STR[/size][size=-2] Wednesday, 29. June 2005, 09:13 o'clock[/size]
After the many referring to the ' iTunes Phone ' support were discovered yesterday of iTunes 4,9, at the night today also a pdf (6 MT) of a presentation which Motorolas north Asia manager Michaael Tatelman on 21 June before Morgan Stanley-analyst in Peking kept found. Particularly at this pdf page might be 15. Because this side is concerned with the Motorola-mobile phone Design and is there nevertheless really a picture of an unknown Motorla-mobile phone shown. Still more particularly at this picture: the display shows a iTunes Virtualisierer similar diagram with a white Apple Logo. Down on the keyboard is not a round Wheel recognizably, whether it concerns thereby a Scroll and/or a Click Wheel or simply only a design on the keyboard, is clear. The configurations and remaining data of the mobile phone only this picture and no data are just as unclear are present there.
As a macprime reader communicated us, the Domain reroutes 'iphone.org' on apple.com. A WHOIS on this Domain results in that this Domain Apple belongs... however already since in the middle of December 1999!
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