Apple cell phone guessing game
Will Apple computer be adding a cell phone to their product stable? This along with how was the universe created may go down as one of the most talked about questions. Well maybe not but there are plenty of iPod users wondering about it. Will they, how will they and do people even want one are some of the biggest questions floating around. Each time Apple makes an announcement for a special event this subject rises up and speculation grows.
Well Apple has partnered with Motorola on the Rokr and Slvr phones over the last several months with very little success. Motorola created these phones and worked with Apple to get iTunes onto them. This would allow users to put up to 100 songs from their iTunes library onto the phone. Well to start 100 songs is not a lot of music. This would put the phone in the same class as an iPod shuffle but with a color display. The price of these phones is floating around the $200 price point. This is a pretty step price to pay for a basic phone with limited song storage.
There has been talking as of late that the 100 song limit is a software limit and that it might be expanded soon. This would allow for more songs to be placed on the phone, which might attract a few more people. Another downfall is that the phone is just now that cool looking. It’s a basic candy bar style of phone and pretty dull looking compared to the RAZR.
I think that Apple probably will do something more in the phone area someday. My best guess is that you’re not going to get some basic phone with iTunes on it. The Motorola experiment is just that, an experiment to see how the market would react. If Apple wants to do something special like they have so many times before, I would suggest creating a Newton phone. That’s right bring back the Newton, updated of course. This would be a PDA style phone with palm type features, able to store large amounts of data, music and compete with the Treo style phones. If Apple does this I am sure it would be a huge hit. The Newton still has a fairly large following and they could blend the products together to make something cool.
For now we’ll just have to keep reading the rumor mills and wait for that next big announcement from Steve.
Well Apple has partnered with Motorola on the Rokr and Slvr phones over the last several months with very little success. Motorola created these phones and worked with Apple to get iTunes onto them. This would allow users to put up to 100 songs from their iTunes library onto the phone. Well to start 100 songs is not a lot of music. This would put the phone in the same class as an iPod shuffle but with a color display. The price of these phones is floating around the $200 price point. This is a pretty step price to pay for a basic phone with limited song storage.
There has been talking as of late that the 100 song limit is a software limit and that it might be expanded soon. This would allow for more songs to be placed on the phone, which might attract a few more people. Another downfall is that the phone is just now that cool looking. It’s a basic candy bar style of phone and pretty dull looking compared to the RAZR.
I think that Apple probably will do something more in the phone area someday. My best guess is that you’re not going to get some basic phone with iTunes on it. The Motorola experiment is just that, an experiment to see how the market would react. If Apple wants to do something special like they have so many times before, I would suggest creating a Newton phone. That’s right bring back the Newton, updated of course. This would be a PDA style phone with palm type features, able to store large amounts of data, music and compete with the Treo style phones. If Apple does this I am sure it would be a huge hit. The Newton still has a fairly large following and they could blend the products together to make something cool.
For now we’ll just have to keep reading the rumor mills and wait for that next big announcement from Steve.
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