News Screw the Nano! No, wait...

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/09/27/motorola_nano/

 

Rokr's a good idea but I think it's overpriced for the features. Although someone already hacked the 100 song limit...

 

MP3 player phones have been tried many times in the past and the same hurdles were never stumbled over each time, i.e. Battery life, size, capacity, screen size, usability and sound quality.

 

Yeah i would rather have a Nano and a good phone..and that comment he made on the nano..rofl.

Ice

 

What the hells a Rokr?

 

Huh, screen size? If it's good enough for a mobile then it's good enough for your music!

'ROKR' is the codename that Motorola gave to their new "E1" phone. In the same way as the Motorola V3 is known as "RAZR".

 

is anyone actually interested in a mp3 player cell phone?

to me its more inconvient, 100 songs is just way too low for most people, especially people like me who like to encode mp3s at 320. I can't believe he said that though. I'll have to show my friends at school this.

 

Yeah, screw the Nano...

I personally don't get the iPod 'revolution'. I think they (Apple) just got lucky with the marketing gimmik (it's no longer an MP3 player...it's a 'insert brand' (if you look at the iPod you'll see it's no longer a piece of hardware, but a fashion accessory)), and the fact that your average Joe is a sucker for anything designer (lets be honest here, you're paying for the brand, rather than the functionality) - why anyone would want to own the same product as a billion other people I don't know.

My house-mate caught the iPod bug and bought himself a Mini, which I've had a play around with (and hate - awful design, terrible sound quality etc).
And don't get me started on the colour screen nonsense of some models (what the hell is the point..."oh wow, I can look at my his-res digital photos on a tiny screen!" ...yeah, great!?)

And as for the whole MP3 phone thing, they've been doing it for years (since the first MS Smartphone) - my current phone has roughly 900Mb of space for my MP3's, which (for me) is plenty of space...

Would I buy a phone that has the ability to play AAC tracks? No...I'll stick with my Smartphone and my copy of Betaplayer thankyou-very-much.

 

ermm.. prozac perhaps?

everyone is entitled to their opinions, but one thing that has to be debated upon is the design... even non-apple people, companies and design firms all rate the ipod has having an excellent design... some rivals use the ipod design to benchmark their own designs. I would say the ipod design is what made it popular... you can have all the marketing in the world, but if the initial design sucked, no one would buy it in the qunatities that made it into this 'fashion-item'.

And before you label me as a fanatic... no, I don't have an ipod. I have brothers and sisters with one, I bought my other half one, but I mayself don't have one.