Cell Phones Likely to Replace iPod

Hell *I* might even get one then

from JoeUser Forums

     Ol' Bill opined recently that the iPod will likely lose a large chunk of it's market share to cell phones in the near future and I have to agree with him. I love mp3 players but I won't carry one around with me just to hear music. That's just the way I am. I won't pay several hundred bucks for a largely one-trick pony.

     My wife has a Blackberry (she needed a new phone) and while I have never actually laid hands on hers (I bought it for her while I have been here in Iraq) the feature list on the damn thing is impressive. With hard drive miniaturization screaming ahead it won't be long before they manage to cram a 40+Gig drive into a RIM Blackberry without even changing the functional and attractive formfactor of the 7100T.

     Combine the PDA, phone, and music player functions in one device that size and I will be hard pressed to maintain my long standing aversion to carrying a cell phone (electronic leash I tell you!). Unless Apple figures out some killer application or new niche product they face another Mac slide and soon.

If you can make me want a phone... you win.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Very insightful.  And, and OBTW.  Digitial cameras as well.  Once the resolution gets there, who needs a camera and a camera phone?
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ah! Another gaget to add to our vast store of stuff! Our toy boxes get pretty full. Is life any better because of all these things? I doubt it. If you get one, greywar, give me a call.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
By the way, I *still* havent figured out all the details of that phone. Even with the instruction book.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
The boss has a blackberry. I've only laid hands on the thing for maybe a total of four hours yet am still expected to support it. It is very nice, he gets his email, cell phone, and pretty much the entire contents of our ACT! database updated every 15 minutes whereever he may be. And he most recently was in the Dominican Republic. It is indeed a very nice gadget.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I will be hard pressed to maintain my long standing aversion to carrying a cell phone (electronic leash I tell you!).


I remember calling the beepers in Korea a "ball and chain". They had the little cords that attached to pocket or belt and were usually bought by a girlfriend that wanted to keep tabs on her guy.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hopefully one day they'll build in a tv remote as well

I'm shocked they haven't already to be honest

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Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

Hopefully one day they'll build in a tv remote as well

damn fine idea...