Motorola Tao's photographer zooms out a little, better shot ensues
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Sep 30th 2009 3:04PM
posted Sep 30th 2009 3:04PM
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As soon as Google comes out with a program similar to itunes for music management, I will switch BACK to Verizon from my iPhone and AT&T, for this thing.
Same here... AT&T doesn't work nearly as many places as Verizon does where I live.
Drag n` drop buddy.
Couldn't you just use iTunes to manage the music and then drag the iTunes folder to the phone's SD card?
Songbird from Mozilla?
Solved your problem for you.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/30/but-every-phone-can-sync-with-itunes/
Winamp?
Or just tell Itunes that your music directory is \\yoursdcard, and then set itunes to manage your music directory so that when you copy music into itunes it copies it to the sd card, delete from itunes, deletes from the sd card.
@shamowfski
Winamp! I didn't know they still existed.
Are you kidding? Not having to use that glorified shopping cart is a plus! Use anything you want with this. Winamp, WMP, Doubletwist, Mediamonkey, etc.
They don't try to dictate what software you can use to copy your media over. Drag and drop for fucks sake.
Anyway, I love the look of this phone. Big capacitive screen. Proper QWERTY keyboard. Linux-based OS.
If it was on Sprint I would have to think hard about holding on to my Pre but on Verizon there is no way. I'm not paying an extra $40 per month for the same plan and dealing with V-cast garbage all over the phone.
Love the software, but this phone is fugly
still blurry
Hero or Tao?
Tao.
Hero is from HTC, totally different company.
Sorry, maybe I should explain in more detail. I am needing a new phone. I don't know which would be "better", Hero on Sprint or Tao on Verizon. I currently have Verizon service.
( I realize they are made by different companies.)
Definitely the Tao. OMAP 3 beats the pants off that Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz piece of junk in the Hero.
Mark is right about the processors. But with Sprint you'll be saving tons of money on the plan. I'd say to just wait until Sprint gets an android handset with a decent processor.
I thought this was the Leo...
FUCK! Way too many big, multi-touch phones with 4 buttons on the bottom. (Not that I'm complaining)
stop taking photos of the phone with your phone, get a real camera
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where MAx was sitting in a chair in an empty room, and the voice came in claiming he was number 6. When Max asked who the voice was, he said that would be telling.
Max told the voice - I'm not a number, I'm a free man.
haha ur kidding right?
here, read this, or at least scroll half way down to see more pics for yourself
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1536281&page=52&pp=15
tool
Shadows?
Dipshit.
Crossin my fingers for the Predator.
yeah I'm with you on the Predator thing!
Im on my first week of service with at&t after switching from verizon because their phones are shitrectangles with pretty names. I do miss the outstanding service (coverage not customer) however. That alone will not keep me there though.
I had pretty good customer service with VZW, though I can't speak for every branch. (I always go to the same one, and the people there know me well enough.)
I do agree that Verizon's phone selection is horrible, though hopefully the Imagio and Tao will change things somewhat.
I've stuck with them because I'm on a family plan, but the coverage is amazing where I live, and that matters much more to me than phones.
I guess this thing has a slide out keyboard as well? ("in its closed position") If so and it has a decent processor then you can wave good by to the Hero and any other Android phone. (Until a new processor comes out...)
It has a slide out keyboard and it's using the TI OMAP3430 which uses the same Cortex A8 processor and the POWERVR OpenGL 2.0 graphics chip from the iPhone 3GS.
I came.
Uh, is this what you meant...?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/47604/saturday-night-live-digital-short-j-in-my-pants#s-p2-st-i1
i gotta say, the bottom part of the phone in this picture has got me perplexed...what the hell is going on there!?
May be Its so thin that you need that chin to hold it while you use the QWERTY keyboard. I guess that was purely for comfort
I don't know, it does look weird and, if the earlier leaked pics are any indication, slightly uncomfortable. Hard corners and whatnot...like the Verizon Touch Pro 1 and Diamond.
I may be wrong though, cause I definitely still want this phone! Or a TP2.
I cannot wait to see much clearer pictures of this phone. It looks sweet!
the screen does not run the whole length of the device, there is roughly 1/2" inch lip on the bottom (the microphone is there, but other than that not sure why its there), but it does sort of make the device rather peculiar looking
Agreed...but I still want it.
You can see several pictures of it over on phandroid - http://phandroid.com/motorola-sholes/#pictures
The slider keyboard projects out a bit on the bottom of the phone.
That was Zen , this is Tao
Ha! Funny.
Promise me it wouldn't be crippled to near joylessness after hitting Verizon, and I might consider it.
I second that.
I'd stay on verizon for this. :D considering switching to Sprint for the Pre or the Pixi. Can't decide whether I want android or WebOS
Engadget, you made me believe there were *NEW* pictures ... DAMN YOUR HEADLINES! DAMN THEM TO HECK!
no seriously tho, this pic is part of the original set, and still blurry
-1 for misleading
Verizon > T-Mobile and AT&T for coverage, but their phones are horrible. I bought my wife an Ozone and she really loves it and it appears that Verizon left it as-is including the internal GPS! I have high-hopes for this phone and it is the only thing that will keep me from moving over to T-Mobile or Spring in November.
Verizon has been de-crippling their phones slowly over the past six months with things like the as-is GPS in the Ozone that Steven mentioned. i think verizon is finally realizing that they need to stop crippling phones and that the new open source craze is and they are slowly embracing it
Why can't something like this come out for AT&T? This is the first time I'm jealous of you lucky Verizon bastards.
ATT will never get another "cool" phone until the iPhone exclusivity thing is over.
Since when has Motorola been back in the mobile phone industry???
Since about three or four weeks ago, when they announced the CLIQ with MOTOBLUR.
Since Motorola decided it's going with Android on its devices, it showed that it's seriously trying to make a comeback. And I'm curious to see how the CLIQ and Tao pan out.
@Brak this pic was originally posted by George in this comment section http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/motorola-tao-sholes-purportedly-seen-running-android-traversi/#comments
And then I posted it here http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1536281&page=61&pp=15
I'm a current vz customer that has loved the coverage but hated the phones. I'm going to wait a bit to see if VZ gimps androids features. Hopfully they don't and then it's just a matter of moto or htc.