If Apple Corporation will not enter cell phone industry with iPhone or another Apple branded cell phone, then other manufacturers will not be waiting and will enter area, where Apple (yet) rules: mobile devices with hard disk.
People are bored of carrying around several devices and would prefer to have one device with all features they need. So if you already have Apple iPod, consider buying this Microsoft Smartphone with built-in hard disk:
... that Samsung is considering to produce. Some features of this phone:
- built-in hard disk of size: 3GB
- operating system: Windows Mobile Magneto = Windows Mobile powered by Windows CE 5.0, not by Winodws CE 4.2 as Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. Commercially Magneto will probably be known as "Windows Mobile 2005".
- bilt-in Bluetooth (version 2.0) with streaming in stereo (by now most Bleutooth audio is mono)
- GSM tri-band with GPRS class 10
- dimension: 113 x 48 x 21 mm , weight: 160 gr
- display: 320x240 pixels (Microsoft Smartphone platform in "Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition" version supports this resolution natively already)
- OTA / Online Music Service - online music downloads are
- jog shuttle navigation - something like in Apple iPod
To learn more click here.
[Via msmobiles.com]