Tuesday March 01, 2005 Steve Jobs: Better watch your back! Sluuuuurp! Java phones now have iPod ability
This J2ME technology-enabled cell phone from Sony Ericsson (model W800) is the first with the Sony "Walkman" brand with high quality music playback ability on a mobile wireless device. No need to download to your PC/Mac first then sync to your iPod. Just download and jam on it all on one Java device. See: Sony Ericsson W800 Music Walkman Cell Phone Plus, this new Java phone has a 2 Megapixel camera! Damn, imagine if Paris Hilton had this camera instead of her Sidekick. ;-) From what I hear, Fred Durst needed something opposite, like a magnifying zoom 20x camera. ;-) Alas, this phone will only be available in the UK/Europe for now, but I think it'll be in the U.S. very soon... to kick iPod's butt. :-) |
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Posted by 199.172.169.19 on March 01, 2005 at 12:32 PM PST #
Depends whether you like having swappable Memory Sticks with you, like popping 1GB worth of Bach one morning and 512KB worth of Outkast, Mystikal, and No Doubt in the evening.
Or, better yet, figure you want to listen to Eric Clapton on the train, but don't have it yet in your memory, so you download it over the wireless network, right there and then. No PC, no Mac, and no regular DSL/cable Internet connection required.
Yes, not close to what the iPod does, but in many ways better than what an iPod does. The network is the computer. ;-)
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on March 01, 2005 at 12:42 PM PST #
I've been mulling this iPod/what's next quandry over for a couple of weeks. I'm in the UK - bandwidth over cell/GSM is ridiculously expensive & so would pose a big $$ overhead on my music downloads. Will the model be "own" the music or "subscribe" to it? Again, the latter idea is dependent on the cost of bandwidth.
The current cell network business is not where it's at - the carrier mindsets are all switched circuit and $/MByte. To get music or any content on a cell/mobile we need unmetered access with a reasonable flat charge.
I still prefer the buy it, "own it" content model and isn't the "subscribe" model really what we called "radio" in the past!! I've been listening to some of the "internet radio" stations of late (e.g. www.radioparadise.com)- some really great stuff: I listen, I enjoy, if I really enjoy and want to listen to something again I go buy it. Like Bill at RP alludes - the internet offers freedom of content not the ratings driven garbage that comes in off the FM broadcasters.
My next want is be able to listen to that Internet radio stuff anywhere, now I can only listen at the end of my broadband pipe - I really need wireless IP access. That's what I want, what I really, really want: common and ubiquitous wireless 512Mb IP access for $35 a month, hell I'd pay $50. Then we can really talk about what the application is.
Posted by Don Thompson on March 02, 2005 at 04:23 PM PST #
Posted by john on May 29, 2005 at 01:35 PM PDT #