"Mobile phones can make even simple calls?" Is more or less the sense of title of an article published by Cnet News these days . And it is easy to grasp the irony against terminals rated more allintrattenimento users through music, movies and photos in high definition.
The confirmation of this trend's entertainment came from the two most important exhibitions of ICT (Information & Communications Technology) beginning of the year: the CeBit in Hanover and the CTIA in New Orleans.
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and other global telephone industry giants have shown in these locations because they have already worked on entertainment-related functions, and in particular to the reproduction of music, and what they can offer in the future products that are yet to be developed to the fullest. So while the Nokia has in mind to install on all its products a Camera 'base' of at least 1 mega-pixel, Sony and Samsung emphasis instead on the music: it is the H-i300, SCH-series, with built-in 3GB hard drive and software like the Windows Media Player able to read in addition to the MP3 file format Ogg Vorbis and AAC (the compression that iTunes offers songs through its online music store).
Just the phone from Samsung opens new and exciting horizons up to now fill your phone with MP3 music was anything but simple. Smart Phone on the market today allow you to install software that can play music, is true, but face serious limits on the ability to file storage. The most common memory cards up to a maximum is 512 Mb / 1Gb and still be expensive for the pockets of average consumers who once bought the phone, rarely buy accessories that go beyond the sleeve or faceplates.
What producers are trying to do, with models like the Samsung or the Sony Ericsson W31S , is summarized in the mobile terminal only the fundamental features that a PMP (Portable Media Player) should have: digital photography , CD quality music and movies in MPEG-4. Of the three options only the latter is still far from its full implementation: Although we are making huge efforts in this direction, the latest generation of mobile phone screens are still, in most cases, small and unreliable. You can support the vision of a music video for example, but it is difficult for the average user prefers to watch a movie or even a short film on the screen of a mobile phone rather than on other PVP (Portable Video Player) as Archos and the like that at least provide sharper images and brighter.
Someone is thinking also to 'move' TV on mobile phone: just at CeBIT, Siemens has introduced a series of prototypes that can receive the signal DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) and which one is for its digital terrestrial broadcasts. In other countries, like Finland and Korea, this is already being tested.
For now, however, companies invest about playing music, following the success of the portable MP3 players. Also because it would undoubtedly be convenient for end users, eliminating a bulky gadget (often accompanied by his feeder) from the pockets of his jacket and have songs and calls on one terminal. In this sense, is emblematic of the Motorola-Apple alliance for the production of the much iPhone, the mobile phone that could replace the iPod and allows the download of iTunes songs directly on your mobile.
however, is dangerous to assume that people feel the need for a single multimedia device. And not only because, to date, it is very piùdivertente play on the baby or PSP to watch movies on an Archos player rather than do both through its small capacity (both memory usage and battery) to a mobile phone. We should not tralsciata the possibility, however remote, that people continue to see the different media separately, and users' preferences vary depending on the tasks they wish to do. Just analyze the iPod phenomenon, more social than technological: the player from Apple, thanks a unique design that has made him something of a status-symbol, has crushed the competition and was elected to a fetish-car technology to expose, to touch, to combine with a thousand and one accessories customized products, as well as a little girl would enrich their own set of dolls with clothes are always new.
It's just a feeling, but the buyers still do not seem willing to devote their attention to a single gadget. And even companies that seem so determined to focus on convergence, will really be able to combine proprietary formats on mobile phones, software and languages \u200b\u200bthat already affect the compatibility between different hardware and applications? This is also an important point to clarify, as the future compatibility will play an even more central since the transmission and reception of data will be done wirelessly. Today, in fact you can afford to buy an MP3 player can not be used with iTunes, the problem is around when you buy music through another online music stores like Napster. But tomorrow will be more complicated click through a cell phone probably will replace any portable media, and therefore needs to ensure maximum performance and reliability.
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