July 14, 2006
Mobile Phones to Make Sweet Music
Mobile phones are much more capable of making an impact on the market for mobile music players than on that for digital cameras, reports Mobile TechNews.
"This is the opinion formed by IMS Research during its most recent examination of the handset market. It found that whilst a market for dedicated MP3 players will remain, mobile phones are likely to steal a significant proportion of the market.
Senior Analyst, John Devlin, said "With the primary functionality of an MP3 player being data storage it is more an issue of capacity than performance. Once this is addressed (and this can already be seen in a limited number of new devices, such as Sony Ericsson's 4GB W950i Walkman phone) there are few reasons for people to double up on the number of devices carried."...
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