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Furthermore, I can't help wondering when Nextel is going to release a bluetooth enabled flip phone.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/11/motorola-to-intro-itunes-phone-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/11/motorola-to-intro-itunes-phone-in-august/Dec 19th 2005 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/11/motorola-to-intro-itunes-phone-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/11/motorola-to-intro-itunes-phone-in-august/Dec 19th 2005 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/11/motorola-to-intro-itunes-phone-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/11/motorola-to-intro-itunes-phone-in-august/
All Apple has to do is to sell UNLOCKED versions of the iTunes phone (just as third parties do on eBay). This allows the phone to work with ANY carrier that uses GMS (essentially all of them!).

Then all the user has to do is place the SIM card of their existing phone into the iTunes phone. Then viola! It works! An unlocked phone is one which is not given a password which forces it to work only with a single wireless carrier.

Note that I am assuming that the user wants to download their music on iTunes then upload it into the iTunes phone via bluetooth or USB, rather than wanting to download music via wireless service. Of course if the iTunes phone has Java, conceivably, you can download a Java cell version of iTunes into the phone and download music from Apple itself via wireless.

Note that the most important thing is the users can use the iTunes phone irrespective of the wireless carrier's consent or not - so long as it is a GSM phone.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM