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| 27 Feb 2006 04:56:12 pm |
 DRM delayed Nokias iPod phone |
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Nokias music N91 smartphone - its first phone with a hard disk - has been held up because of DRM issues, the company confirmed.
Nokias Pekka Pohjakallio told us last week in Barcelona that adding Windows DRM was the primary cause of the slip. That confirms what Nokia executives said when the delay was acknowledged last Fall.
Nokia had originally hoped to ship the N91, which was announced back in April, by Christmas. Instead, it promoted the N70, an incremental improvement over the 6680 series, as its Xmas bait.
The N91 is due by the end of Q1. It cant have escaped your notice that were already more than halfway through Q1.
Nokia has been bundling Symtella - a Symbian port of the Gnutella P2P client - with media units Stateside, and last year made much of this Wi-Fi phones sharing capabilities. It seems to have lost its fervour, with Pohjakallio talking guardedly about sharing N91 playlists by Bluetooth or MMS.
Nokia says it shipped 46.5m music phones last year, and expects to ship USD80m in 2006. But only the hefty N91, with its dedicated music controls, 4GB hard drive, and a real headphone jack, and the slimmer, mid-market 3250, look like theyre able to give the ever-shrinking iPod a run for its money. |
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| 08 Feb 2006 12:09:55 pm |
| Motorola SLVR L7 music phone review |
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According to the word on the street, there are two reasons why you would want Motorolas SLVR phone over any other. The first is the dimensions of the device and the second that its the second phone from Motorola to offer users iTunes software.
The first point is very true. The SLVR is incredibly slim: its just 1.2cm thick, and this means you can happily tuck it in a trouser pocket without every girl you talk thinking youve got other things on your mind. In profile, its 11.4 x 4.9cm.
But the claim that this is the second iTunes phone might be true in America, but alas here in the UK, its not, at least not yet.
We asked Motorola why the phone was lacking perhaps the one key feature aside from the design and the reply was a simple "no comment". Its a strange omission especially considering that the phone is shipping with the software in other territories. Perhaps its because the company is still suffering from reported poor sales of the ROKR.
Get past this and the phone doesnt really offer much beyond the design. Yes, theres a media player capable of playing MP3 or AAC tracks. Yes, theres Bluetooth. Yes, theres a 64MB Transflash (aka Micro SD) card in the box to get you started - theres a mere 5MB of on-board memory. But weve rather come to expect all this from a phone purporting to be multimedia all singing all dancing models, so its really nothing to shout about.
You can see the games for the SLVR L7 here though if music aint what you are into. |
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