Mobile Phones V Mp3 Players

With so much talk about the convergence of mobilesupport from manufacturers and the lack of available
phones and mp3 players in today's market, are wecontent from your mobile phone. The ipod comes with
finally in a position where you only need one deviceitunes, a very sophisticated piece of software with a
instead of 2? This article attempts to explore benefitsvast library of podcasts, music and even tv shows
and drawbacks of having separate or combinedand films. This kind of support is simply not available to
mobile phone and music devices, in an ever morethe average mobile phone user. However Nokia is
competitive world.fighting back with its planned intention to release a
With the introduction of the Nokia N81 and Sonymusic download platform this year, offering music
Ericsson W960i, music players on mobile phones havelovers the chance to download tracks direct to their
become ever more sophisticated. Gone are the daysmobile phone. The key to Nokia's success will be in the
where the ipod was the only mp3 device worthpricing model they choose to adopt. Only time will tell if
having. Capacity has increased as has the soundthey get this right.
quality, to a point where you can now store more thanOverall the technology for mp3 mobile phone devices
enough music and podcasts on your mobile phone tois certainly available. Handsets such as the Nokia N81
last you for days. At the time of writing the musicand Sony Ericsson W960i prove this. What remains to
focussed phones can store approximately 8gb ofbe seen is whether or not the manufacturers can
music, a quantity that is set to increase over thesupport these devices with a large enough catalogue
coming year.of data that is cost effective for the end user. That is
The downside to the mp3 mobile phones is the lack ofthe challenge they face.