Is the reign of the iPod coming to an end?

May 6th, 2006 at 1:12 am · Filed under Games and Multimedia

Nowadays, the average cellular phone comes with an electronic calendar, an alarm clock, a digital camera, video games and even the ability to play back digital audio files such as MP3s. This makes the cell phone a serious competitor to portable MP3 players, like Apple’s iPod.

The biggest advantage the iPod has over cell phones at the moment is storage space. The iPod can have a hard drive of up to 60GB, allowing about 15000 songs to be stored on the device. Most mobile phones support flash memory cards, which usually have less than 1GB. However, cell phones with hard disks are becoming more common. This allows for more pictures, videos and songs to be stored on the phone. Will this new fad mark the end of the iPod?

Apple has already foreseen this turn-around. The latest versions of the iPod are now able to play video files. In fact, the computer giant is already looking at combining it’s iPod to a mobile phone.

Will the iPod be able to survive in the mobile phone market? Be it one way or another, in the end, your will probably have the equivalent of all the electronics you can find in a household - in your pocket.

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