No hello for you, moto
So I'm really unimpressed with Cingular's new Motorola ROKR phone. It's the first phone to feature a version of iTunes built into it.
The first problem I have with it is the general look -- it looks like the first Nokia cell phone I ever had, a decade ago. An ugly brick, only smaller. I like flip phones. Maybe it's the Trekkie in me.
Secondly, the capacity: 100 songs? I already have a 512MB iPod shuffle. Why do I need the same capacity in a cell phone? If I got a Treo 650, I could squeeze more than that onto it using the SD card slot.
Third: It's Cingular. I ran screaming from ATT Wireless first chance I got, and didn't look back. Their coverage in my area just isn't that good, no matter what their "four bars" TV ads say.
Nope, just not enough of a draw for me to switch.
Verizon's supposed to get a CDMA version of the RAZR before too long, just because the RAZR's so damn sexy looking. That'd be nice. So would the Motoq, their answer to the Blackberry -- that' more a function over form thing, tho.
The basic problem here is that iTunes in and of itself isn't that big a draw for me for my phone -- I'm infinitely more interested in a "smartphone" that will let me answer e-mails, text message and so on without having to pound a stupid number pad than I am in a phone that lets me play music, even if the phone works with the DRM system my vendor prefers.