i have a 1 gig mini sd for my n900. my siemens cx65 mounts on my pc. no
drm - at the moment. my old nokia 7650 has a sublime interface. all thats
needed is to mix them in a mobile pot and wham bam! the answer to all ur
problems.
p.s. if only apple would do for mobiles what they did for personal computers
^ macox10.
darren
----- Original Message -----
From: <Reto.Grob@swisscom.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 5:42 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: mobile phones killing iPod (was "iPod killing Mobile
Phones")
> Hi Nick,
>
> > I am all in favour of one box that does all jobs "well enough" but the
>
> > truth is that most keitai DON'T do all jobs "well enough". It may be
> an
> > MP3 player, but it has limited storage. It may store files, but it
> > won't mount my "home" directory. It may download songs directly, but I
>
> > very, very rarely want to do that - and you can bet it will have
> enough
> > DRM on it to make it difficult to play on another device... I want a
> > decent interface to manipulate what I have downloaded - most keitai
> are
> > pretty horrid in the user interface department.
>
> You're right that the first offerings won't be great, but actually you
> can extrapolate:
>
> a. battery consumption.. I doubt the first KDDI phones have a long
> battery life to play sound. Actually the iPod battery has about the same
> capacity of a mobile phone. And you could design a phone that you switch
> to the "mp3 player mode" where it disables all power-consuming parts....
> and more important, disable the antenna, so you could use it in an
> airplane ;)
>
> b. interface.. not yet, but why isn't it possible to stick an interface
> as cool as iTune to a mobile phone?
>
> c. regarding DRM, upload, download.. there is no reason why mobile
> phones won't be able to be as nice as others in future. ..
>
> So.. for short term.. I agree. For long-term, it all depends on a good
> design, integration and the business model decisions ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Reto
>
>
>
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Received on Sat Oct 23 02:44:03 2004