MP3 gadgets at CES

Published on January 9, 2008 By Draginol In CES 2008

I'm not going to cover specific media player gadgets. I'll leave that to others, I just can't get that excited over music players. Just not my bag.

But one trend I noticed with MP3 players is the addition of new features such as iRiver's W7 incorporating GPS into their player.

My ideal portable device would let me play music and videos, use GPS, have 802.11 support, optional 3G support, a fantastic web browser and be relatively small with maximum screen size. Or put another way, an iPhone with 3G and navigation. Microsoft needs to hurry up and get Windows Mobile 7 out there. Microsoft's excessive NDAs really come back to haunt it because contrary to what its detractors say, Microsoft has been a real innovator in the last few years. There's really nothing in the iPhone that wasn't in Windows Mobile 7 much sooner but because of NDAs, nobody can really talk about it so when it comes out, people will claim it is a copy of what Apple is doing even though it had the functionality first.

Comments

HG_Eliminator

on Jan 09, 2008

aww no photos? Was hoping to catch a glimpse of the new and sexery goodies due out...

afaust

on Jan 10, 2008

> Or put another way, an iPhone with 3G and navigation

iPhone needs a few more things before I think I could switch to it.

More storage or expandable storage via SD cards. For a video device 16 gb just isn't enough.

Third party developer support. I know the SDK is out to select companies and will be generally available soon so hopefully this issue is fixed. It remains to be seen, though, how much control over the device Apple will actually give you. The fact that it took nearly a year for it to be released shows how little Apple cares about 3rd party development, so my hopes aren't high.

Greater freedom in phone servce providers.

> people will claim it is a copy of what Apple is doing even though it had the functionality first

What bothers me most is people's inability to realize that everyone copies everyone else. Certainly Microsoft copies other companies. So does Apple and every other software company out there. What the fanatics fail to realize (or conveniently forget) is that even though the Mac was the first successful GUI to market, they didn't invent the concept. They "stole" the concept as well as mouse, smalltalk & Ethernet from Xerox.

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