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Backers say new mobile music services will be big in Europe but admit the United States could be a problem.
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Mobile Phone ?

how could you call a box that download and play AAC plus songs a PHONE ?
There is actually no really big differences between an Ipod and a "phone".

Ipod will have download capacity (one day)and phones will have HDD (Samsung)
I think the only good answer is how much electronic stuffs you would like in your pockets ? Every smart boy find the "PMC I-do-one-thing-great-multi-device" approach sexy but the fact is you won't like to carry many little devices if you can have one.
In the LONG-TERM Swiss Army multi-fonctions knife WILL WIN (moore's law and fuel cells) because all functions are targeted to our eyes and ears.

Let's look at Vodafone site to see the famous personal communicator : it is a computer !

By the way, Motorola has stopped talking about "phone" because their new products are not these ones.

Mobile Phone ?

how could you call a box that download and play AAC plus songs a PHONE ?
There is actually no really big differences between an Ipod and a "phone".

Ipod will have download capacity (one day)and phones will have HDD (Samsung)
I think the only good answer is how much electronic stuffs you would like in your pockets ? Every smart boy find the "PMC I-do-one-thing-great-multi-device" approach sexy but the fact is you won't like to carry many little devices if you can have one.
In the LONG-TERM Swiss Army multi-fonctions knife WILL WIN (moore's law and fuel cells) because all functions are targeted to our eyes and ears.

Let's look at Vodafone site to see the famous personal communicator : it is a computer !

By the way, Motorola has stopped talking about "phone" because their new products are not these ones.

[Yuzer_Nayme]

Phones is phones

And cameras is cameras ... once they each do what they do perfectly, THEN can we start worrying about combining them?

[Yuzer_Nayme]

Phones is phones

And cameras is cameras ... once they each do what they do perfectly, THEN can we start worrying about combining them?