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Trade ease-of-use for a crappy FM tuner?! LMAO!!!

iPod phones will not take off till they are really good at both tasks. 100 songs will not do it. I personally need it to replace my 20G iPod before I switch.

But the problem is the implementation not the concept. There will come a day when the two are merged - preferably built by apple!

Typical Consumer Reports:

"While the ROKR is an interesting experiment in extending the iPod brand..."

They never quite seem to get it.

I am very happy with my ROKR, it serves my purpose as one device

qualms are;

1. Transfer speed
2. 2 year cingular agreement *yak*

thats about it

In the UK, the ROKR is free with a 12-month contract on O2. Pretty good deal really. My biggest gripe is really with the camera - it stinks. Otherwise its a very capable handset, and the itunes interface really is pretty good (I played with one in the shop). The built-in stereo speaker are actually pretty decent too, as is the speakerphone quality. The shop says it seems to be selling pretty well.

An FM Radio would also be of more interest in the UK where there is a large selection of good stations from the BBC as well as many commercial offerings. Personally I'm not bothered but I can see how a lot of people would like it. A DAB radio would be cool though.

Scalz,

Although I haven't used the phone myself, the review seems pretty objective. And very objective for Consumer Reports. An inherant issues with any all-in-one device is that none of the features is best-in-breed.

I thought Jobs just said that in Paris.

The problem for SJ is how can you enter a market that relies on a closed carrier network. Unlike itunes the Motorola deal is necessary to get the door open - but the network still holds the aces.

ROKR is a dog and unfortunately the itunes risks getting a bad press when it is the fault of the hardware not the software. This is nothing new to Apple and one of the reasons they don't allow their OS on other low spec, crap platforms