iTunes hard disk phone coming next year

We don't know how it got the scoop but huge French newspaper Le Figaro has got some pretty interesting stuff about the upcoming iTunes/Motorola phone. Some of the stuff we know - that it is likely to be a version of the E398 Motorola handset (in white if the pic is right), that it will have 512MB of flash storage and that it will be compatible with tracks downloaded form the iTunes online music store.

The interesting bits are that one US carrier has signed up for the phone - the implication being that, as we have long suspected, no European networks have rushed forward to take the phone. More importantly that a hard disk version of the phone will be available next year. Given that Hitachi, which may or many not produce the hard disks for the iPod, has a one inch eight Gigabyte hard disk lined up for phones which should be released about that time, it all makes perfect sense.

Motorola E398 on sale now

Motorola's E398 music phone is available now for £199.99 on T-Mobile pay as you go. The mobile's major selling point is its built-in MP3 and MPEG4 player and the stereo speakers that's supposed to endow the handset with superior music playback.

The E398 has become one of the key handsets in T-Mobile's music download service (more about that here) which allows users to download a few tracks to their mobile handset. The E398 also includes a stereo headset so you don't have to advertise your Britney obsession to the world.

The E398 has 5MB of internal memory and uses the new smaller-than-SD TransFlash removable storage card, available in up 128MB capacity. This will store around 34 MP3 tracks. It's also got Bluetooth and a camera with flash.

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DST, SCB Promo Winners

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and DST joint promotion ended this month with the final 10 winners.

Top lucky draw winner Vijaya Kumar walked away with a brand new Nokia 7370 mobile phone. Nine others each received $100 cash.

Prizes were presented by DST Chief Operating Officer Hj Marsad Hj Ismail and. Tiew Siew Chuen, Chief Executive Officer, SCB Brunei, at the DST Headquarters in Tungku Link.

DSTCom collaborated with SCB to promote bill payment via the bank's ATMs in 14 outlets and Cash Deposit Machines in seven outlets since July.

This prize presentation ended the threemonth joint promotion. The final 10 winners were randomly chosen from customers who paid through SCB machines, and avoided queuing up at DST bill payment counters

Customers were entitled to one draw for every $100 payment for their Prima lines.

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