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3G VAIO Mobile Phones?

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-with-new-stuff dept.

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.. "

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  1. No it won't... by Hobbex · · Score: 4

    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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  2. Yippie! by Sick+Boy · · Score: 5

    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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