Motorola’s new flagship phone, the ROKR E8, has finally arrived in the wild courtesy of T-Mobile.

The surprising thing is how poor the specs look in the post iPhone world. This is a flagship product? A 2MP camera, a pathetic 2GB of built in RAM (plus a bundled 1GB microSD card), haptic feedback and a music player.

But most telling is the list of what it doesn’t have. No touch screen (although the ’soft’ keys are touch sensitive and context-aware), no 3G (EDGE only!) and no accelerometers. Fine, you say, it’s cheaper than the iPhone, right? Wrong. T-Mobile is pushing the E8 for the exact same $200 that AT&T is charging for the 8GB iPhone. Not to get all pro-Apple here, but unless you really hate AT&T, why wolf you buy this instead of the iPhone?

Product page [T-Mobile via PC Mag]

The latest version of iTunes (7.7), which was yesterday sent early to developers, contains this nugget:

“Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch with software version 2.0 or later.”

“Also use the new Remote application for iPhone or iPod touch to control iTunes playback from anywhere in your home — a free download from the App Store.”

That wording looks a little janky, with the ‘Touch’ in iPod Touch spelled with a small ‘t’, and some run on sentences, but maybe that’s just the transcription-monkeys over at Mac Rumors.

We’re guessing that this will work over your home Wi-Fi network in a similar way to the web-apps that already do this. Of course, being a native application, and being Apple designed, it should be a lot faster and slicker. We still can’t help wondering, though, when Apple will let us stream music direct from our iPhones to the Airport Express, cutting out the middle Mac entirely. C’mon guys. What’s stopping you?