01-01-2007, 06:30 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Smartphones are not Toasters
First of all, Happy New Year! Next I would like to start the New Year off by bringing up one of my biggest irritations. Smartphones are not music players! I know I am in the minority here. I just have a basic belief that when a thing tries to do too many things, it does none of them well. Remember the Motorola iTunes phone? That's my point; you probably don't because it was a disaster. Smartphones are getting very good at doing a few things. Being a music player shouldn't be one of them. The iPod really set the bar as to how a portable music player should be. A Smartphone with Windows Media Player doesn't even come close! I find it awkward to use. What about battery life? Don't you want your phone to be able to make a call when you need it to and not have a dead battery? Finally, nothing upsets me more than those silly media buttons on the front of the phones! Should Media Player be part of the phone? Of course. Should the phone be built around the Media Player? No I say! So what do you think? Am I really way off base here? Should a Smartphone be like Swiss Army Knife? Go ahead, bring on the flames! I can take the heat!
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