There has been a lot of talk about an iPod phone. But, it appears that Hop-on has already come out with it. It's right here. Judging by the similarities between the actual ipod and this phone, and going on Apple's precendent of suing people, I would say that Hop-on's legal team is probably going to get a call from Apple's legal team.
Hop-on's 1886 is a tri-band phone that has a touch screen menu, MP3 player, 2.0 Megapixel camera and video recorder. It also has WAP/GPRS, 64 polyphonic ring tones, a 262,000 color TFT touchscreen, predictive text input, SMS/MMS messaging, E-mail (WAP Push) and a 500 name address book. That's a little more than an ipod does. Here I am thinking about getting an ipod, and yet there is chatter about a video ipod in September. I guess I'll just have to figure out which one I want, or if I should wait.
My main reason for wanting an ipod, or some sort of high capacity MP3 player, is that my new car doesn't have an MP3 player or even capability to play MP3s. My last car had Sony CDX-MP70 with a 10 disc mp3 changer in it. It's a little difficult to move back to regular cds after that. Additionally, there are NO after market stereos that will fit my car. I could always use my SanDisk 1 GB Digital Audio Player, with an FM transmitter, but I don't think 1 GB is enough for me. I'm actually unsure if I can even deal with something like a 20 GB ipod. Perhaps the 60 GB one? I dunno. Maybe I should wait for the vPod. I don't need the picture or video capabilities even. I dunno.
Posted by yakuza at July 26, 2005 11:37 PM | TrackBack