Remember these iTunes phones?

[decay]

https://www.idropnews.com/apple-history/...ne/176566/

Over two years before anybody outside of Apple even knew the company was working on the iPhone, Apple partnered with Motorola to create the ROKR E1 -- the so-called “iTunes Phone.”

This was a far cry from what would eventually become the iPhone, but it also generated a lot of enthusiasm for the very idea of Apple getting into the mobile phone market, and kicked off months of rumours and speculation of what an Actual Apple phone -- an “iPhone” -- would look like.

[hal]

um.... no, not really...

[mikebw]

Oh yeah I do. I was looking into a replacement for my first phone (a flip model) and the ROKR must have been a model on display at the time.

[ztirffritz]

When Jobs introduced those you could see him visibly cringe. He HATED that phone.

[Rolando]

I was using a Motorola RAZR at the time, and wondered why they did not make that the iTunes Phone.

I also remember a website that made 3D Rendered mockups of iTunes phones, usually flip or slider phones (remember those?) I thought they would have been big sellers.

[zachdog]

I still have my SLVR iTunes phone. It was a tiny soap-bar, based on the proportions of the RAZR, and loads better than the first-gen ROKR.

It was a good phone, but not a good camera and not a good iPod.

[Lux Interior]

I remember.