NEWS: Can phones challenge iPods?

> Not microSD, not a good brand, and not a good retailer.
> $40 for a good quality 1 GB microSD card from a good retailer:
> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820208043>
> 2 GB microSD card is currently a Verizon exclusive at $100.
>

How the hell is it exclusive? I bought a xv700 last year and bought a
Sandisk 2gb MicroSD from Frys for $79.

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> That's 1 GB. 2 GB is an initial Verizon exclusive at twice the price.
>

How the hell is it exclusive? I bought a xv700 last year and bought a
Sandisk 2gb MicroSD from Frys for $79.

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:22:53 GMT, "RM v2.0" <[email protected]> wrote in
<[email protected]>:

>> That's 1 GB. 2 GB is an initial Verizon exclusive at twice the price.
>
>How the hell is it exclusive? I bought a xv700 last year and bought a
>Sandisk 2gb MicroSD from Frys for $79.

It's a microSD card, not a miniSD card.

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On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:22:34 GMT, "RM v2.0" <[email protected]> wrote in
<[email protected]>:

>> Not microSD, not a good brand, and not a good retailer.
>> $40 for a good quality 1 GB microSD card from a good retailer:
>> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820208043>
>> 2 GB microSD card is currently a Verizon exclusive at $100.
>
>How the hell is it exclusive? I bought a xv700 last year and bought a
>Sandisk 2gb MicroSD from Frys for $79.

There was no microSD card last year -- it's brand new.

Your XV-6700 takes miniSD, not microSD.

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RM v2.0 wrote:
>> That's 1 GB. 2 GB is an initial Verizon exclusive at twice the price.
>>
>
> How the hell is it exclusive? I bought a xv700 last year and bought a
> Sandisk 2gb MicroSD from Frys for $79.
>
>

Go back and read that card. it is either not 2GB or it is not MICRO
SD.

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As far as I've seen its been getting bad reviews, not good ones. Its a
stylish piece that is a music player first and a phone second. And its all
style and very little function. That's a quick summary of the reviews I've
seen for it.

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> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:02:40 GMT, Kevin Weaver
> <[email protected]> wrote in
> <[email protected]>:
>
>>John Navas wrote:
>>> <http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/03/verizon_tunes/>
>
>>> The phone which is the basis of the latest story is LG's Chocolate
>>> device, which Verizon sells for $150 ("after rebate with new two year
>>> activation") - and for $249 with a one-year contract. There is also a
>>> Samsung music phone involved in the promotion.
>
>>Cingular is also going to release the very same phone. Was told this
>>today by a cingular rep.
>
> Maybe this one will be different, and it is getting good reviews, but
> I've personally been unimpressed by every LG handset I've ever tried,
> and this one is very expensive.
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"RM v2.0" <[email protected]> wrote in news:dNJBg.317619$Zr.6573
@fe06.news.easynews.com:

> How the hell is it exclusive? I bought a xv700 last year and bought a
> Sandisk 2gb MicroSD from Frys for $79.
>
>
>

I've gotten many friends on the Sansadisc microdrive players, recently.
These little microdrive players play no copyright games, making them
eligible for my recommendations. Any player I recommend MUST act like a
simple USB hard drive with no restrictions and play at least MP3 music
directly copied from any computer without proprietary software or added
licensing files. If Windows Explorer can't copy playable files to the
player, it's automatically disqualified as far as I'm concerned.

My fav players are the old Archos Jukebox Studio 20 20GB hard drive
that's been bouncing around in my truck so long the paint wore off it.
Archos replaced the first one with the defective hard drive with a new
one with a Toshiba 20GB drive that operates, still many years later,
flawlessly. I swapped out the 700maH Ni-Mh AA cells for new 2550maH Ni-
Mh AA cells, the biggest ones I can buy, extending its runtime many, many
hours. That unit was replaced with a Digital Mind Xclef 500 100GB hard
drive MP3 player that was just discontinued by Digital Mind. Why DM
would drop a player they never could keep in stock and always on back
order remains a mystery. It never failed over the 2-3 years I've used
it. I took out its 100GB 2.5" standard laptop hard drive and replaced it
with a new 120GB 2.5" laptop hard drive for more space. It runs 22 hours
on a charge on a standard-sized Li-Ion cellphone battery. You CAN carry
your favorite collection in your pocket...(c; The Xclef is also a
digital MP3 recorder, which is handy, and has an FM radio I've never
used. FM is just spam and noise...a waste of time.

The Sansadisc players are great, very compact and rugged. I hate hearing
the same song over during a trip, though, but it would be ok for a walk
or runner.....

Cellphones hobbled up by Verizon will NEVER replace proper, unhobbled,
MP3 players. How stupid.....

Question: Do you really want to use all your battery capacity listening
to music?

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At 07 Aug 2006 17:41:52 -0700 Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
> Question: Do you really want to use all your battery capacity listening
> to music?
>
Why not? Compared to my first cellphone, a Nokia "brick", which ran
about 12 hours on a single charge, modern phones have battery life to
spare. I used to charge my prevoius phone, a Nokia 3620, nightly even
though it would run nearly 4 days on a single charge. My current phone
is a PDA/phone (a T-Mobile MDA) so I guess I've come full circle- with
occasional Wi-Fi and MP3 use the MDA lasts about 12 hours! ;-)


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Larry wrote:

>
> Cellphones hobbled up by Verizon will NEVER replace proper, unhobbled,
> MP3 players. How stupid.....
>

Sure they will since DRM is the main focus of product design these days
because even though the media organizations have record profits they are
"loosing money" when you play an mp3.

In article <[email protected]>,
George <[email protected]> wrote:

> Larry wrote:
>
> >
> > Cellphones hobbled up by Verizon will NEVER replace proper, unhobbled,
> > MP3 players. How stupid.....
> >
>
> Sure they will since DRM is the main focus of product design these days
> because even though the media organizations have record profits they are
> "loosing money" when you play an mp3.

I guess you folks have never had hands on with a Sony "Walkman" phone.

Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
> Question: Do you really want to use all your battery capacity listening
> to music?
>

I can listen on headphones all day and it still lasts for two days.

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Jack Zwick <[email protected]> wrote in news:jackzwick-
[email protected]:

> I guess you folks have never had hands on with a Sony "Walkman" phone.
>

Nope.....I wouldn't even have a digital phone if given the choice. Mine
would be on FM with AMPS!...(c;