axxxr
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We’re hearing some (admittedly wild) rumours to the effect that Vodafone Japan may be planning to release a phone with a hard disk drive in it within the year. This could simply be wishful thinking, since VJ’s been pushing handsets with TV tuners in them recently and it may just be that someone is thinking that adding a hard disk for recording would be a cool thing to do. We were also under the impression that hard disks weren’t tough enough to put in phones yet. To add to that, infoSync quotes a recent study by IDC that points out the issues of cost, size, and power consumption. But one thing is certain: Vodafone Japan is in need of a killer product to win some subscribers back in the war with its rivals.
Could it be that something less phone-like and more iPod or PDA-like might be on the cards? We doubt somehow that Vodafone could come up with something like that out of the blue, but the idea of an iPod with a phone in it is an interesting one to consider.
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Posted: 2004-04-28 19:26
