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Icons, dialog show iTunes 4.9 ready for ‘iPod Phone’

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By LC Angell

Senior Editor, iLounge
Published: Monday, July 4, 2005
News Category: iTunes

imageIn further confirmation that iTunes 4.9 is ready for the long-awaited Motorola iTunes-compatible phones, which Engadget suggests will begin with the TransFlash-card capable Motorola E790, iLounge forum member “celebi23” has discovered several mobile phone icons and dialog strings in the application.

Following on the heels of an earlier discovery of an icon that resembles the popular Motorola RAZR phone, and reports that some current Motorola phones can already communicate with iTunes, Celebi23 uncovered a generic mobile phone icon that will appear in the source column of iTunes.

As previously reported, hidden files in iTunes 4.9 are riddled with references to an “iPod Phone.” Celibi23 verifies this information and provides details of preferences for such a phone, including options very similar to those of the iPod shuffle, crediting most of the dialog discoveries to Macshrine.com.

Users will apparently be able to use AutoFill with an iTunes-compatible phone, convert songs to a lower bit rate before loading them, display album artwork on the phone, and choose how many songs versus data to store. Additionally, iTunes will seemingly enable users to name their phones, transfer podcasts to them, and update their contacts. A reference to “iPodmobile” remains obscure.

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Comments

1

Nice spy work. Sounds promising.

Posted by Sujay on July 5, 2005 at 2:01 PM (PDT)

2

yeah sounds promising, if it was another phone company, like Nokia, Ericsson or Samsung, but it isn’t

Posted by Gentleman_finn in Denmark on July 6, 2005 at 6:47 AM (PDT)

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