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Cell Phones to Challenge Apple iPod, Says Samsung

Samsung Unveils 8GB Hard Drive Phone

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 03/22/2006 | 09:33 PM ]

The unmatched popularity of Apple’s iPod digital media player gives a hard time even for such a dedicated company as Samsung. After seeing how Creative Labs, iRiver and Sony failed to produce a worthy competitor for the iPod, Samsung is trying a different approach.

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CNET News.com reports that Samsung has taken the wraps off its mobile phone that boasts with the largest hard disk drive seen on such a device to date.

“The “candy bar”-style device, the SGH-i310, will pack 8GB of storage and run Windows Mobile 5.0. Samsung is hoping the device, which can hold more songs than an iPod Nano, will take off with music fans. In addition to its large hard drive, the device will let users sync playlists from their PC as well as store documents, photos and other information in the phone’s internal memory,” says the report.

While the efforts to deliver such a device to the market are no less than commendable, Samsung may face a situation, where such device would not be desirable by end users.

“According to a study by RBC Capital Markets, 70% of consumers have no interest in playing music on their mobiles,” concludes CNET News.com.