bluetooth playlists.
If you’re saving
your bucks for a music player-and-phone, here are the contenders with the most
buzz:
Sony Ericsson’s W800 (the Walkman phone)
and Nokia’s N91. The W800 will be released by the 3rd quarter, the N91 closer to
the end of the year.
It looks like the N91 is going full-tilt
into iPod surrogate mode. Just note the price difference between the N91 and the
now-even-cheaper mini iPod will be huge. All of the N series phones will land
squarely in the over-P30,000 category, especially at launch phase. The W800
might be priced a little higher than its cousin, the K750, which is predicted to
be at around 30,000 pesos, as well. Certainly if you get these phones through
your friendly neighborhood plan provider they will be more affordable; but
gadget hos like yours truly will most likely just go unfed and unclothed in the
name of shiny new technology.
From the
looks of these specs, the W800 seems to be more of the all-rounder, and will
appeal to people who are looking to replace both their digital camera and music
player. The N91, while also having a 2 megapixel camera, doesn’t come with a
photolight or autofocus (such photo-buff features being given over to the N90
and its Carl Zeiss optics). Someone at the mobileburn forum posted more details. Many many
more mouthwatering details.
Phones are
co-opting other digitoy categories like mad. In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash you
encounter gargoyles, people who wear computers, oftentimes
unfashionably, and scavenge the Metaverse for information. Mobility is the new
black.