What is The Future of Portable Media Technology?
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
I am considering the purchase of a portable Sansa MP3 players, especially, I can use Real’s Rhapsody on the road. But I was curious whether there will be a new “breakthroughs” in portable media technology soon (in addition to larger space). If so, I would keep from buying and wait until the new technology.
The only known impending change is the iPhone. Although there are several phones, MP3 capability them in full, I have yet to hear that plays music and a special player. The iPhone is essentially the biggest nano with a mobile phone built around so that the sound quality should be significantly improved (provided, of course, will not insist on the use of the appalling record of the ear). Of course, this is still assuming that you actually want a device to serve double duty.
Other than that the only sure bets right now are smaller and larger capacity. Anything else would be either speculation or injury probably by someone of non-disclosure agreement.