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iPod Sales Affected by Music Phones Barron's says	By 27th of June 2005, 13:44 GMT Adjust text size:


If cell phones are transformed by the wireless into music players, iPod sales might record a significant decrease, Barron's says. According to the same magazine, by 2006, most of the handsets will implement the necessary hardware and software to allow them to download music in the same way an iPod does, but also by using cellular telephony. Some analysts estimate that next year, Apple will sell approximately 45 million players. This figure is huge, but it pales compared to the 750 million handsets which will be sold in 2006. Nokia already has a competitor, the N91, which will work as a cell phone, but also as a MP3 player, thanks to the incorporated 4GB hard disk which can be used by users to store MP3, AAC or WMA files. However, we are a little bit circumspect regarding the producers' ability to cram so many functions into a device designed for cellular telephony: digital camera, audio player, radio player audio, radio etc.

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