“Samsung Electronics has developed a music-player cell phone with 8GB of built-in flash memory–that’s double the amount of memory in Apple Computer’s hit iPod nano,” Martyn Williams reports for IDG News Service.
“The SCH-B570 can store about 1600 MP3 music files or about 16 movies,” Williams reports. “The phone, which was announced on Tuesday, will go on sale in South Korea shortly.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We can’t wait to see what Apple has up their sleeves. Not too much longer to wait, we think.
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SanDisk intros 8GB flash-based digital music player – August 21, 2006
please let it be!
MDW: small, big things in small packages
Battery Life = 60 minutes.
No thanks.
I’ve said it once and I’ve said it a thousand times.
Apple will NOT get into the mobile phone market, if they do their iditots.
Since Apple is not idiots, Apple isn’t getting into the mobile phone market.
Apple has to rely upon third party companies to create phones, their markup is too high.
I can get free phones for just signing up a new contract.
I can go on and on…
That is what they said about apple getting into music devices.
Yeah, I just gotta have one of those, errr… whatchyamacallit “SCH-B570” things…
how much will it cost?
Tommo UK Wrote :”Yeah, I just gotta have one of those, errr… whatchyamacallit “SCH-B570″ things…”
Why can’t things have names rather than numbers. We are people, not robots – that name really trips off the tongue!
God those Asian companies love those crazy numbers and letters..SCH-B570, indeed!
It is just so 80’s and 90’s.
Apple will execute as a MVNO.
Watch and learn.
People I speak to say they don’t trust their music collection to sit on their disposable phone. iPods are not dispoasable, phones are. The teo are not a good match…
And it’s powered by a hand crank.
macaday,
youve still got your music collection on your computer so whats the problem?
and… can it be connected to a TV like the ipod?
“Samsung debuts 8GB music, video phone”
Apple is “doomed”!
A friend of mine, but very anti Apple, has tried many of the MP3 players and finds some that are OK. But he said that Samsung makes the worst interface imaginable. They just do not get it.
Ampar, actually it’s powered by static electricity: just keep shuffling your feet on the carpet while you talk. Stop moving and the phone goes dead. (Upside: no exploding batteries to worry about and you’re in better shape from all that moving. Downside: you need to get new carpet every few months and using the phone out doors requires you to keep a bunch of fur in your pocket.)
Somebody go into more detail about why Apple should or should not go into the mobile phone market? I know Apple Lover said a few remarks, but I am more curious about it…
“. . . using the phone out doors requires you to keep a bunch of fur in your pocket.”
Some of the more hirsute men and women can make slits in their pants pockets for quick access to lots of fur.
Battery Life = 60 minutes
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LMFAO!!!!!
See related story:
“More blood on Apple iPod’s Click Wheel:…”
Jesus, can no one figure out that before anyone wants a product, they will have to be able to remember it’s friggin’ name?