Ding-Dong, the iPod's Dead
New Nokia cellphone to challenge MP3 players!
Jake pretty much hit the nail on the head when he stated that MP3 players would eventually disappear and merge with portable phones. Makes total sense – it's the same reason why I “had” to go with a Pocket PC Phone instead of two separate devices. Invariably, I would leave my non-phone Pocket PC at home and take the other device with me. I'm getting ready to chuck the Pocket PC phone, however, because Pocket Outlook (much like its newer desktop cousin) is replete with bugs.
A SmartPhone (Scoblephone?) is a great portable device, but I love having a PDA with the larger screen / form factor, admittedly. I'm looking forward to the Samsung i730, too – but may forego it altogether if I can't find a better Pocket PC email (IMAP) application. I love Nokia phones, but I'm never going to carry a phone that doesn't easily sync with Outlook contacts (been there, done that).
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12 Comments
Anonymous
April 27th, 2005
at 4:26pm
What is this Outlook you speak of?
-Randy
Anonymous
April 27th, 2005
at 4:34pm
What if Apple decides to bring back a modern Newton in the form of a future generation iPod?
-Dan
cameron conner / desk003
April 27th, 2005
at 4:46pm
outlook? wtf is outlook? oh, that p-o-s app from microsoft? noo! go with thunderbird and sunbird!
Anonymous
April 27th, 2005
at 5:31pm
Thunderbird sucks.
StrobeAlific
April 27th, 2005
at 5:50pm
Hello…Treo 650. I know it's Palm, but it is a great device.
Anonymous
April 27th, 2005
at 8:17pm
Nah. Cellphones with hard drives are not going to kill the iPod just like Windows Media Player devices arn't it is an ease of use issue. I betcya the cellphone MP3 player would need a montly charge to some phone company to work.
Jake of 8bitjoystick.com
Anonymous
April 27th, 2005
at 8:28pm
There are already too many buttons on a cell phone, adding play, stop, back, forward buttons is going to make it crazy. And don't talk about using pre-existing buttons ('softkeys') – they already have enough functions.
Also, Chris – since you seem to be Mac-hating these days.. It's “Ding-Dong, MP3 player's are Dead”
Anonymous
April 28th, 2005
at 10:27am
Why do people need thick email clients? I'm forced to use Outlook from time-to-time. Word and Visio too. I'd rather use Gmail, a good old HTML editor and a white board.
-Randy
Anonymous
April 28th, 2005
at 12:00pm
I have a cellphone (Nokia 6230 (GSM)) that plays mp3's … both as ringtones and as a 'media player' (it will take a 512Mb MMC Card) … but I still own and use an iPod for a couple of reasons:
1) The volume of mp3's I can store on my iPod (20Gb)
2) I like my cellphones small … I don't want to carry around
either a large or a heavy cellphone 'just because it can store my music' as well!
It looks to me like apple have there heads screwed on pretty well … I can guess that they could be heading on this direction themselves!?
… anyway …there's my 2 cents ….
ciao
Matt
Everton Blair
April 29th, 2005
at 10:31am
Over in europe we seem to have better phones than you guys. My Nokia 6630 quite easily syncs with Outlook, has a 3G connection, bluetooth etc – all the bells and whistles. If you want a smartphone with decent music storage then go for one of the new N-series phones – they have built in flash, 2 megapixel cameras, 4Gb storage for music, 3G – the works.
Anonymous
April 29th, 2005
at 1:52pm
This won't happen until cell phones develop much better battery life. How long would your ipod-o-phone last if you played mp3s and had numerous cell conversations during the day? Not nearly long enough. You'd have to carry 2-3 spare batteries just to get through the day.
Alex Rands
August 2nd, 2006
at 12:28pm
I use My scoblephone with a modified set of headphones and get a whole day of listening no problem. Sure I need to throw it on the charger when I get home but I can listen for 8 hours, unplug and still have the phone work for the rest of the evening.
I guess my Batery must still be in top shape…
My headphones are a set of Sony ear buds spliced into the stock mic pod.
Sound is GREAT!