HTC - add digital music - drop infrared

This is a few days old but I thought it was interesting that finally infrared is going.  For me, I think I have used it once in the past three years...maybe five.  In any event, Dan Nystedt from IDG News Service reported that HTC plans to add digital music to mobiles and will drop infrared....hooray!

High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest maker of mobile phones that use Windows Mobile, plans to further develop music playing functions in its handsets in the future, while it will slowly phase out infrared.  HTC will add more flash memory and other hardware to make its phones increasingly music-friendly.

The strategy meshes with Microsoft's plan to launch the Zune digital music player and challenge Apple Computer in the growing digital music market. Up to now, Microsoft has focused on digital music on the PC and home media systems, as well as a few mobile phone ventures, such as one with Verizon Wireless announced earlier this year.

Read Dan's article here at: ARNnet