It's so true. I sold my iPod and Blackberry and bought a Cingular 8525 and a 2GB microSD card. I really wanted convergence into a single, ultimate device. In theory, it didn't matter to me to manually swap out music folders on the SD card, and I bought Coreplayer for a decent music playing interface. After a couple weeks, I miss the iPod. I miss the Blackberry too, as Blackberry Connect does not work as well as a Blackberry handset. So it's going back, and I'm getting the new Blackberry 8800 next week. Followed shortly by a new 5.5G iPod.
Convergence is a nice concept, but ease of use and simplicity is what really matters in the end to people. I'm curious to see how the iPhone does in terms of battery life. People listen to music for hours, and if all that functionality risks killing the small battery in the thing for phone calls before the end of the day, it's going to be rejected soon after the coolness wears off.
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It's so true. I sold my iPod and Blackberry and bought a Cingular 8525 and a 2GB microSD card. I really wanted convergence into a single, ultimate device. In theory, it didn't matter to me to manually swap out music folders on the SD card, and I bought Coreplayer for a decent music playing interface. After a couple weeks, I miss the iPod. I miss the Blackberry too, as Blackberry Connect does not work as well as a Blackberry handset. So it's going back, and I'm getting the new Blackberry 8800 next week. Followed shortly by a new 5.5G iPod.
Convergence is a nice concept, but ease of use and simplicity is what really matters in the end to people. I'm curious to see how the iPhone does in terms of battery life. People listen to music for hours, and if all that functionality risks killing the small battery in the thing for phone calls before the end of the day, it's going to be rejected soon after the coolness wears off.