Brief Hands-On Report--Apple Released iTunes Phone Driver 1.0

The iTunes Phone Driver 1.0 is available automatically via the System Preferences Software Update pane. As of publication time, it was not available from Apple's downloads Web page as a standalone file. According to the Read Me file,

iTunes Phone Driver 1.0--iTunes 4.9 or later features the ability to transfer music to mobile phones. This driver is required for iTunes to communicate with these supported mobile phones.

iTunes Phone Driver 1.0 showed up in the Software Update application on all of our Power Macs (G5 and G4 Cube), Mac mini, iMac G5 and PowerBook G4s. All are running Mac OS X 10.4.2 and had iTunes 5.0 and QuickTime 7.0.2 installed. The iTunes Phone Driver 1.0 downloaded and installed with no problem. Unfortunately, we do not have a supported cell phone which at this time is only the new Motorola ROKR E1 announced on Wednesday. [Bill Fox]