{"id":72,"date":"2006-02-14T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=72"},"modified":"2006-02-14T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T11:58:11","slug":"everything-handhelds-3gsm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Everything handhelds @ 3GSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting announcements coming out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3gsmworldcongress.com\/\">3GSM World Congress<\/a> in Spain this week.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most interesting is Sony Ericsson&#8217;s inevitable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.co.uk\/news\/index.cfm?NewsID=13843&#038;Page=1&#038;pagePos=5\">assault<\/a> on the burgeoning portable digital music market.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters even <em>more<\/em> interesting is how the digital music service should easily combine with Sony Ericsson&#8217;s new 4GB 3G mobile phone to take on the mighty iPod. Yes, I am a happy iPod owner but I can see numerous advantages in having a phone with a modicum of storage space and support for music over the much beloved incumbent.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Digital music is digital music, no?<\/li>\n<li>Can you make voice (or even video) calls with an iPod?<\/li>\n<li>Does the iPod talk bluetooth for wireless connectivity?<\/li>\n<li>Mobile e-mail and PIM apps on an iPod? Probably yes but not like a phone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s such a far out claim to say that the phones are closer to achieving the nirvana of a single digital communications and entertainment device than the humble iPod is today. Sure there&#8217;s talk of Apple pulling out an iPhone or equivalent but really? That would certainly be something to see.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I also use a Sony Ericsson phone but the amount of storage space is pitiful compared to the 20GB iPod of the same era. The gap is closing and the phones are well poised.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting announcements coming out of the 3GSM World Congress in Spain this week. Among the most interesting is Sony Ericsson&#8217;s inevitable assault on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-tech-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}