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Monday, 21 February 2005 |
Apple resists
mobile MP3 ambush
Register -
London,England,UK
Last week's 3GSM Congress was awash with phones with a new set of controls:
"play", "pause", "FF" and "rewind" - the music phones. Is a oneGB SD chip really
a threat to the market leader, the iPod? Apparently, Apple isn't taking the
chance; it's going to counterattack in the next two weeks, with a colour iPod
mini.
The reports so far seem all to be derived from the scoop by ThinkSecret, which
was convincingly full of tech details - "full-color active-matrix TFT screen"
and "about the same size as the current iPod mini display and will sport a
176x132 resolution" and "Sources hinted at a 6GB drive".
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But while the question of whether to go for a music phone, or stay with the iPod
- and choose between a "Shuffle" with built in flash RAM (announced back in
January) or a hard-disk based colour "mini" iPod with five or six gigabytes -
isn't what the providers are worrying about behind the scenes.
Rather, it's the user interface.
The problem facing the phone designers is: Where is the best place to put the
music control panel, and what should it look like?
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