Motorola: "ROKR 2 won't suck. We promise..."

Peter Rojas over at Engadget writes a bit about the ROKR, recapping nicely all the old news about the ROKR that basically translates to: "This phone sucks as both an iPod and a phone." The interesting bit comes in the second paragraph of the post where Motorola states in this BusinessWeek article that the next ROKR will be better with slider-style sleekness, a one megapixel camera, 3.5mm headphone jack, and capacity to support up to 1000 songs. Sounds good, but the whole "we promise this one *won't* suck" spin kind of falls flat when Motorola executive Ron Garriques says that it might not have iTunes and that whether it does or not depends entirely upon Cingular and Apple.

Okay, so you're saying that since you screwed up (through bad design) the first iteration of the iTunes phone that everyone had been rumor-mongering about for a good year before its release that you're going to come out with another one that fixes all those problems but loses the iTunes goodness that got everyone excited in the first place? Sure, Ron. That'll fly ... like a brick.