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A PRODUCT TEARDOWN REPORT
WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR PLANET ANALOG
Announced at the time that Apple's iPod was moving forward to a fifth-generation platform in the form of the Nano, Motorola's ROKR was the first cellular handset to support Apple's iTunes for music playback.
The bar-form phone changed little from its noniTunes predecessor other than getting new software, an iconic white plastic case and a few buttons.
An ATI Imageon 2250 processor handles multimedia tasks, including MP3 decode and display interface. Core communications functions come from a Freescale platform comprised of baseband processor and single-chip GSM transceiver. Skyworks supplies the RF Power amplifier and a two-chip package from Intel is used for system memory. The ever-important...