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3G VAIO Mobile Phones?
chinoodle writes "It seems Sony want to combine technologies from Texas Instruments and Symbian, and merge in their memory sticks to create 3G phones with broadband data and music capabilites. The Symbian press release is here and the TI blurb is here. Sony has licensed TI's low power DSP, and Symbians operating system - should be some tasty product.. "
Besides MemoryStick, don't forget MiniDiscs.
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: I cannot for the life of me understand why Slashdot keeps hyping these products, when Sony has shown very clearly that they are never going to make a music player that has even heard of
Three words: CmdrTaco, Vaio, Aibo
Custom hold music?
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I use a Palm III for my organizing data, and have been considering getting a cellular phone for some time. The Qualcomm PDQ was just too big to combine useful PDA and cell-phone features, so it looks like we'll have to get to some sort of middle ground.
MP3 playback is nice, as long as Sony doesn't instead go to the ATRAXX playback that caused consumers and reviewers to largely pan their Vaio Music Clip device. Who wants to pay $3 per SONG to listen to music that can only be loaded three times?
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And I'm sure as hell not going to pay 3G for a cell phone, even if I can hear digital music over it!
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Alright, all of these features are really nice and all but, WHY?
Who needs BroadBand and MP3 players in a Cell Phone.
I can see it now a bunch of people walkning around with a cell phone up to their ear listening to Rob Zombie or something. You have to admit that you would look like an idiot shaking your head back and fourth with a cell phone...
We won't be able to call them cell phones any more eather. We would have to call them something like hand-held computers or something like that.
SprintPCS' Wireless Web was nice, but has this gone to far?
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Um.. I like gadgets as much as the next guy, but come on! After years of making cell phones smaller, neater, less visible, now we'll be striving to get the one with the most RAM? The fastest processor?
I really can't remember the last time I wanted to listen to an MP3 on my phone.
I'm taking bets on how long it'll take to port napster to a mobile phone. I just have to call Vegas for the odds first.
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No, this will not be a tasty product. This will be the same integrity infringing, laugh in the face of the freedom, SDMI POS that the existing Sony memorystick music players are. It will be tasty if you love having your prorietary products spoonfed into you, served with a scrumptious load of warnings and legal threats should dream of trying to make it do what you want it to do - rather then what Sony wants it do to in order to make the most out of you as a consumer.
I cannot for the life of me understand why Slashdot keeps hyping these products, when Sony has shown very clearly that they are never going to make a music player that has even heard of the idea that it should be open to the user. I would think that of all places, a site born out of the free software movement would not support machines designed based on the principle that they should control the user to largest extent possible.
Sigh...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
This means I can finally pay cell phone charges to listen to radio quality music over the cell phone, instead of that free radio signal that I listen to over the radio.
Hey... wait a minute...
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