myTouch 3G Fender Edition subs for G1 on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'

We knew the when and the what, but now we know the whom: Eric Clapton will be touting the new Fender Limited Edition of T-Mobile's myTouch 3G on national TV, and a few of his hits will be pre-loaded onto the phone. The faux-wood handset goes on sale January 20th, and packs a 16GB microSD card for cramming in some of Clapton's lesser-known jams from your own catalog, along with a long-awaited 3.5mm headphone jack so you can actually get some enjoyment out of them. There are also a few guitar-related apps preloaded, a new doubleTwist partnership for music syncing, and Fender will be selling a few accessories of its own to really kit the thing out. At launch the $180 phone will be running Android 1.6, but it's supposed to get a 2.1 update this spring. Hit up the source link for the ad, featuring a very weathered Eric Clapton tolerating his new handset.

[Jban Posted Jan 14th 2010 1:48PM]

It's hard to muster up enough "care" for this one.

[Ryan Trevisol Posted Jan 14th 2010 4:42PM]

@Jban Especially since Clapton's best work was on Gibson Guitars.

Yeah, I said it!

[Dank Dillweed Posted Jan 14th 2010 1:49PM]

"Weathered"???

For all the drugs, booze and tragedy this guy's been through, I'd say he ain't looking to bad for 55 y.o.!

[aztek Posted Jan 14th 2010 1:55PM]

@Dank Dillweed He's 64

[Dank Dillweed Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:00PM]

@aztek

God, see what happens when I don't start drinking early, I can't even subtract.

[Glodokboy Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:18PM]

@aztek

64 and Awesome!!

[flanders Posted Jan 14th 2010 1:49PM]

With the kind of excitement he's showing, who doesn't want to run out and get one!

[technogecko6 Posted Jan 14th 2010 1:50PM]

I always control my android device while not looking at the touch screen at all.

[flanders Posted Jan 14th 2010 1:52PM]

@technogecko6
Sometimes he doesn't look at his guitar when he's playing it also

[gargle Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:01PM]

@flanders :D good one

[NaJaKwa Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:02PM]

@technogecko6
when you're good, you're good.

[HardToBelieve Posted Jan 14th 2010 3:53PM]

@NaJaKwa

And when you're really good you're Eric Clapton.

[Dank Dillweed Posted Jan 15th 2010 3:53AM]

@HardToBelieve

Google this you young-uns

"Clapton is God"

[Yavin1 Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:02PM]

Didn't MS try this with the Zune? We all know how that turned out. :\

[Tiptup300 Posted Jan 14th 2010 5:53PM]

@(Unverified)

There's a Fender zune!? I would buy that in a second.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:04PM]

she don't lie she don't lie she don't lie

[HurricaneDC Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:13PM]

This would have been cool if it was a Fender Nexus One or something. The myTouch is old hat.

[Viakenny Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:17PM]

I'd rather get a Brazilian HTC Magic (with HTC Sense, but without any guitar apps preinstalled), but it costs even more than an iPhone (and iPhones here aren't cheap)

[danG Posted Jan 14th 2010 4:22PM]

@Viakenny
You mean a hero?

[Viakenny Posted Jan 14th 2010 5:05PM]

@danG no, I do mean a Magic (Brazilian HTC Magics have HTC Sense instead of Google Experience) - more info here: http://www.htc.com/br/product/htc-magic/overview.html

[Dale P Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:22PM]

I wish they had Nigel Tufnell instead of Eric Clapton.

[flanders Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:37PM]

@Dale P
It would be all black like the Smell the Glove album though

[HardToBelieve Posted Jan 14th 2010 4:03PM]

@Dale P

I wish they had Jon Foreman. But nobody else would like that.

[JChez Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:26PM]

Old Rockers should look at Clapton (and Bowie) as a lesson in how to age gracefully. His hair and mode of dress are normal. He even wears a suit and tie from time to time! When you see the way some other guys look (Mick Jagger and the guys from Aerosmith come to mind), you have to say that despite their money they just look sad .

[dura Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:35PM]

The sour thing is: George harrison wrote the song when his wife then ran off with Clapton.

[pohatu771 Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:40PM]

If you're referring to While My Guitar Gently weeps, it was written long before Pattie "ran off" with Clapton. It was released in 1968... The Layla album was released in 1970 (which was almost entirely about Pattie, still George's wife). George and Pattie weren't divorced until 1977, and she didn't marry Clapton until 1979.

[bennythedog Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:50PM]

@pohatu771

Actually, George and Eric were good friends at the time this song was written. So much so, that the guitar solo you here in the song is actually Eric, who became the first musician to record live with the Beatles for a song that was eventually released.

John

P.s. The first record song to feature a live musician other than a Beatle was Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da by Paul, who originally recorded it as a kind of Reggae tune (see: Anthology Disc 3).

[pohatu771 Posted Jan 14th 2010 8:05PM]

@bennythedog I'm aware of their friendship and Clapton playing on the track - it just had absolutely nothing to do with Pattie.

[JChez Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:29PM]

Also, any old dude that's cleans shaven and has too much hair and lets it grow too long, immediately starts looking like an old lesbian (google it). Clapton has certainly avoided that (Paul MacCartney)

[Davis Skye Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:42PM]

That...is seriously cool.

[YndeCam Posted Jan 14th 2010 2:48PM]

I'd like to hear him wailing on that thing - or better yet just wailing on his real Fender...

[DariaMorgendorffer Posted Jan 14th 2010 3:09PM]

When is the "Reign In Blood" edition coming out?

[rgeyzer Posted Jan 14th 2010 3:38PM]

Sorry to interfere with all the Beatles discussions going on, but has it been confirmed that the MyTouch 3G is, in fact, getting the 2.1 update in the spring? This is the first time I'm hearing about this. Hope its true as HTC's been pretty quiet on the subject.

[Gazoobee Posted Jan 14th 2010 4:10PM]

Can't they get someone *under* a hundred years old, who actually has some *talent* to promote this thing?

Is it a coincidence that all the dinosaur rockers support Windows and Android and all the cool musicians use Apple gear?

[N900 Posted Jan 14th 2010 5:24PM]

You BEST be trollin'

[andthemaniam Posted Jan 14th 2010 10:09PM]

@Gazoobee

Guarantee all your "cool" musicians look up to Clapton and would call you a moron.

[flanders Posted Jan 15th 2010 7:44AM]

@Gazoobee
"all the cool musicians use Apple gear"
SERIOUSLY?
That garbage that stupid hipster kids dance to on crapple commercials shouldn't even be categorized as music. Apparently that's hard for you to hear with your head up Steve Jobs behind!

[sh0nuff Posted Jan 14th 2010 5:21PM]

faux wood is hot.

[BuCwiLd Posted Jan 14th 2010 5:36PM]

i would never buy that phone especially without an official announcement of 2.1

[e1ectr0harm0n1x Posted Jan 14th 2010 5:39PM]

What's the app he's showing?

[DAATMAN Posted Jan 14th 2010 7:47PM]

It's in the way that you use it...

[blinddance Posted Jan 15th 2010 1:46AM]

+1 for beatles reference!

[drewcp Posted Jan 15th 2010 2:50PM]

The phone number in the video (8774906637) is a direct line for ordering the Fender myTouch.