March 6, 2005
Alive with sound of music selling
An excellent article from the The Chicago Tribune on the foray of cell phone-makers into the music business.
"Playing music marks another step in the convergence of consumer electronics with cell phones. And the new gadgets offer another way for phonemakers to juice sales.
The popularity of camera phones, for instance, helped spur a 30 percent surge in global mobile phone sales last year--one of the biggest annual increases in years.
While nobody is predicting that sort of immediate boom from music, many industry experts see music phones traveling a similar path as camera phones. They look at the booming market for MP3 portable music players, led by Apple's iPod, and see big potential.
[...] Music playing phones will have enough memory--either internally or externally through memory cards--to hold about 120 songs.
That's about the same as Apple's new "Shuffle" music player and about one-eighth that of Apple's Mini iPod, which has its own hard drive.
Over time, hard drives--which have more storage capacity--will be incorporated into music phones, too."
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