And what of battery life? Sure, if you're a regular user, you'll be charging your phone after a day's work, but what if you don't? Most phones these days have anywhere between 2 and 4 hours of talktime. What happens when you throw in a 5MP camera into that equation?
basically every company out there that involves itself in electronics is trying to incorporate music into their devices. Case in point: cellphones.
The Samsung SPH-S2300 comes with a built-in MP3 player, along with a mini-SD card, and its adapter for use as a regular SD card. Same goes with the Samsung SCH-V420, only with a Memory Stick Duo.
There is an on-demand cellphone-only portal called June by SK Telecom, the biggest carrier in Korea. June is host to numerous music files that subscribers can download to their cellphons for X number of days, and then watch it vanish. Hence, you see a lot of people with headphones that sprout from the phone as opposed to a different player.
In the end, it's all about the comfort level, having something when, where and how you want it. Some like to hold it in an iPod or some other capacity music player while others just want to listen to what the want, only for the time being.
You see ads for those energy drinks (what's that one drink that starts with B?) and the FTC doesn't throw red flags all over the place about how dangerous that drink is to developing teen bodies.
If the PSX is to come out in 2005 as specified by the article, there is one more major issue: support/after-service. What happens if, suddenly out of the blue, you can't play any games? Or if you can't record shows?
This is a potentially stressful problem on the consumer's end when it comes to convergence devices. It's cool if you have multiple stuff in one set-top box -- saves you cable clutter, missing remotes, etc. But if one thing breaks, it means taking EVERYTHING to the nearest Sony center and basically having no TiVo or PS2 or whatever part was still working.
it's true that korean gamers tend to spend more time in front of a PC rather than a TV, but times are changing. ps2 is being heavily pushed into the market, and almost all of them are localized.
there are cubes, xboxes and ps2s, they're just not as popular as other places, say, the USA.
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And what of battery life? Sure, if you're a regular user, you'll be charging your phone after a day's work, but what if you don't? Most phones these days have anywhere between 2 and 4 hours of talktime. What happens when you throw in a 5MP camera into that equation?
basically every company out there that involves itself in electronics is trying to incorporate music into their devices. Case in point: cellphones.
The Samsung SPH-S2300 comes with a built-in MP3 player, along with a mini-SD card, and its adapter for use as a regular SD card. Same goes with the Samsung SCH-V420, only with a Memory Stick Duo.
There is an on-demand cellphone-only portal called June by SK Telecom, the biggest carrier in Korea. June is host to numerous music files that subscribers can download to their cellphons for X number of days, and then watch it vanish. Hence, you see a lot of people with headphones that sprout from the phone as opposed to a different player.
In the end, it's all about the comfort level, having something when, where and how you want it. Some like to hold it in an iPod or some other capacity music player while others just want to listen to what the want, only for the time being.
didn't the iPod make it because it played MP3s, and played them well?
You see ads for those energy drinks (what's that one drink that starts with B?) and the FTC doesn't throw red flags all over the place about how dangerous that drink is to developing teen bodies.
Sheesh.
If the PSX is to come out in 2005 as specified by the article, there is one more major issue: support/after-service. What happens if, suddenly out of the blue, you can't play any games? Or if you can't record shows?
This is a potentially stressful problem on the consumer's end when it comes to convergence devices. It's cool if you have multiple stuff in one set-top box -- saves you cable clutter, missing remotes, etc. But if one thing breaks, it means taking EVERYTHING to the nearest Sony center and basically having no TiVo or PS2 or whatever part was still working.
http://www.pangya.com -- if you can will yourself to navigate thru plenty of garbled korean text to try out a MMO golf game...
it's true that korean gamers tend to spend more time in front of a PC rather than a TV, but times are changing. ps2 is being heavily pushed into the market, and almost all of them are localized. there are cubes, xboxes and ps2s, they're just not as popular as other places, say, the USA.