Carry One Device or Two?

What is your choice? Would you rather carry one device that plays your music and receives your calls or would you rather carry one for each purpose? It is an interesting question and cell phone makers are betting you would rather carry one.

An example is Nokia with their N91, a slick looking device that gives you access to email, the web via 3G, a host of applications, a 4 GB hard drive and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g. It definitely is a slick device...comfortable, simple to use and feature rich.

I read an interesting article today by Sixto Ortiz Jr. from Mobile Tech Today entitled "Can It Be the End of the iPod?"

In part, this is what he had to say:

Cellular carriers have one advantage over Apple: Their devices are connected to an always-on, always-present network that allows users to download content whenever and wherever they feel like it. The iPod, for all its advantages, is a self-contained device that cannot connect to a music service unless it's tethered to a networked PC or laptop.

Remember what smartphones did to PDAs? By incorporating calendars and other organizing features into phones, mobile handset makers effectively rendered the PDA redundant.

Now, efforts are underway to bring the best features of portable media players into your cell phone. If manufacturers have their way, a new wave of music-capable phones will have you reaching for your wallet and tossing your iPod in the sock drawer.

So what is your choice? I think you will find this to be an interesting article that you can read here.

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