Archive for November, 2008

Blog #13: Mobile Phones Go 3G

Monday, November 10th, 2008

First off, congrats to Barack Obama. What an amazing week that was. It was brought to my attention this weekend that the Blackberry Bold is now available on AT&T. This means there are now three 3G phones on the market with the Bold, Apple Iphone, and Google’s G1. With the introduction of these new phones to the market, what is going to happen to mp3 players? Now you can download music directly to your phone and use it as an mp3 player. The only issue with these phones is there storage capacity is nowhere near that of ipod. If you wanted to hold thousands of songs your phone is not capable of doing so. How many songs do you guys have on your ipods? Are you interested in having your phone also be your mp3 player if it can store all your music? Sandisk makes the flash drive cards for mobile phones that essentially act as a second hard drive so you can store lots of information on your phone. If you were able to upgrade your new Bold or G1 would you abandon your mp3 player? Also below are photo’s of each phone. Which one do you think looks the best? How much do looks influence your decision to buy a phone?

Google G1

Apple Iphone

Blackberry Bold

Blackberry Storm