Motorola is in the news today and how. With gadgets and announcements being made they’re cranking up their status in the market to make absolutely sure they aren’t left behind in the mobiles race.
From signing up with Microvison to develop a mobile phone projector to today’s announcement that Motorola and Apple have a little thing going. Motorola’s next generation of phones the ‘Always with you’ handsets will feature Apple’s iTunes mobile music player so transferring and managing your music from your Mac or PC through iTunes will be a breeze. Connections will be through USB or Bluetooth of course and the new player is to become a standard music application in the new Motorola music handsets that should be out sometime in the first half of 2008.
“We are thrilled to be working with Motorola to enable millions of music lovers to transfer any of their favorite songs from iTunes on their PC or Mac to Motorola’s next-generation mobile phones," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. “The mobile phone market - with 1.5 billion subscribers expected worldwide by the end of 2004 - is a phenomenal opportunity to get iTunes in the hands of even more music lovers around the world and we think Motorola is the ideal partner to kick this off."
