Comments on: Music Phones You Can Buy Today http://gigaom.com/collaboration/music-phones-you-can-buy-today/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pud http://gigaom.com/collaboration/music-phones-you-can-buy-today/#comment-57237 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:42:55 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/30/music-phones-you-can-buy-today/#comment-57237 The problem with music phones is that nobody wants them.

If they did, then the existing smartphones on the market (as noted above, the Treo line) would be selling better relative to the fashion phones (e.g. the RAZR, which is running software almost unchanged from the V600/V5* series introduced, what, five years ago?). Besides, many of the smartphones can also play live shoutcast feeds from anywhere, which an iPod can’t.

What people want are the trendy shiny things they see in the commercials. They don’t care about their capabilities, musical or not.

]]> By: Luxomni http://gigaom.com/collaboration/music-phones-you-can-buy-today/#comment-57236 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:01:40 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/30/music-phones-you-can-buy-today/#comment-57236 Don’t overlook the Palm Treo 700p . As well as a PDA and cell phone with a camera, it is an MP3 player and comes with stereo earbuds with a microphone. When you listen to music and a call comes in, your music goes on hold to allow you to take the call and then picks up right where you left off. So far I have replaced four devices with one without even counting the Internet, e-mail, and AIM.
The trick is keeping your friends and boss from knowing you have all this connectivity so you can listen to your music in peace. (Actually, you can listen to your music uninterrupted while using all the features but the phone).

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