Thursday - September 08, 2005
SFX: The collective thud of high expectations.
Well, The Man just unveiled The
ROKR.
It looks disturbingly like a Motorola E398 with a paint job. (The Reuters press release is also disturbing. "It has a color screen and can store 100 songs. It has stereo speakers, stereo headphones and a camera.") It sounds like the toddler version of the Sony Ericsson W800 Walkman phone. Steve Jobs should come out to Asia more often.
(Who knows - ease of use might make up for its overwhelming Motorola-ness and underwhelming Apple-ness.)
The iPod Nano (the replacement for the iPod mini) looks like a bigger winner.
Its seriously anorexic profile (supposedly thinner than a #2 pencil) makes me worry that I'll snap it in half. (My Powerbook trembles every time I roll my chair across the floor, as that was how it became a finalist in the Forsaken Machine Demolition Derby.) But it looks painfully elegant and I think I just heard the hip meter make appreciative screeches. What will make me buy this iWaif? The built-in stopwatch. I kid you not. Apple's keeping the pricing real; the 2GB model is at $199, which will make it around P11,000 when it gets here.
It looks disturbingly like a Motorola E398 with a paint job. (The Reuters press release is also disturbing. "It has a color screen and can store 100 songs. It has stereo speakers, stereo headphones and a camera.") It sounds like the toddler version of the Sony Ericsson W800 Walkman phone. Steve Jobs should come out to Asia more often.
(Who knows - ease of use might make up for its overwhelming Motorola-ness and underwhelming Apple-ness.)
The iPod Nano (the replacement for the iPod mini) looks like a bigger winner.
Its seriously anorexic profile (supposedly thinner than a #2 pencil) makes me worry that I'll snap it in half. (My Powerbook trembles every time I roll my chair across the floor, as that was how it became a finalist in the Forsaken Machine Demolition Derby.) But it looks painfully elegant and I think I just heard the hip meter make appreciative screeches. What will make me buy this iWaif? The built-in stopwatch. I kid you not. Apple's keeping the pricing real; the 2GB model is at $199, which will make it around P11,000 when it gets here.