Motorola today announced "The first mobile phone with iTunes. The Rokr E1". What a joke. The phone is nothing more than a limited 100 song iPod added to an average phone. A mobile music phone must allow you to preview and purchase songs wirelessly. With the Rokr, you can't purchase iTunes songs over-the-air, you must cradle the phone to the Mac and sync your songs.
- Install the included iTunes desktop software
- Connect the phone to your PC or MAC
- Drag and drop up to 100 songs - pick the songs you want or let iTunes do it for you
Why bother? Why launch a product that has zero innovation? What a wasted opportunity.
Want to have a killer mobile music experience? Check out what the folks at Melodeo are doing.
Shop. Preview. Purchase. Play. Store. These five words embody the Melodeo experience. We make it easy for users to discover new music, preview it, buy it, play it and store it on their phones to be enjoyed again and again. Melodeo puts customers in complete control of an enormous library of music and our clean, clear user interface will have even novices buying songs in minutes.
As for the Rokr E1, I will pass; I will take an iPod Nano instead.
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