{"id":332,"date":"2005-09-08T08:10:29","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T08:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2005-09-08T08:10:29","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T08:10:29","slug":"convergence_sighting_ipod_phon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/08\/convergence_sighting_ipod_phon\/","title":{"rendered":"convergence sighting: ipod phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rokr160.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/rokr160.jpg\" width=\"50\" height=\"80\" align=\"left\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"10\" height=\"80\" align=\"left\"> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/news\/2005\/09\/07\/rokr\/index.php\">Motorola ROKR<\/a>, a new iTunes-compatible cellphone developed for Apple, hits the stores today for Cingular subscribers. The phone will run for $249.99 and can load up to 100 songs from a computer through a USB wire. Sounds like a rip-off to me, but indicative of things to come. It also comes equipped with a camera. The cellphone is steadily swallowing up all personal media.<br \/>\nApple also unveiled its newest iPod, the <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&#038;storyID=2005-09-08T010416Z_01_MOL766698_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-APPLE-IPOD.XML\">&#8220;nano,&#8221;<\/a> which uses solid flash memory (like in little USB memory sticks) rather than a hard drive with moving parts. It&#8217;s roughly the size of a half dozen business cards stacked together, and can hold up to 1,000 songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Motorola ROKR, a new iTunes-compatible cellphone developed for Apple, hits the stores today for Cingular subscribers. The phone will run for $249.99 and can load up to 100 songs from a computer through a USB wire. Sounds like a rip-off to me, but indicative of things to come. It also comes equipped with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,249,268,718,901,918,1155,1207,1229,1242,1250,1440,1469,1615,1822,1849,1850],"tags":[2570],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-cameraphone","category-cellphone","category-gadgets","category-ipod","category-itunes","category-media","category-mobile","category-motorola","category-music","category-nano","category-phone","category-podcast","category-rokr","category-technology","category-the-ideal-device","category-the-performing-book","tag-ipod-apple-nano-rokr-motorola-phone-cellphone-mobile-itunes-cameraphone-technology-gadgets-podcast-music-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}