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Posted by: Apocalypso

Nokia sees end for makers of MP3 players, video cams

Mobile phones will deal a final blow to makers of music devices and video camcorders, having already hit the photo industry, a senior executive at handset maker Nokia told the Financial Times newspaper.

Anssi Vanjoki, head of the multimedia unit at the world's largest cellphone maker, pointed in comments published on Tuesday to Nokia's 2000 forecast of the death of the photo industry, and said the same fate was looming for other se.. ...

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Posted by: Monkeylala

I don't know. The death knell for the photo industry, so to speak, was the digital camera. A universal product not needing a monthly subscription... ahem. Which brings us to the evolving cell phones. Unique and feature-packed to be sure, but what is the market saturation rate? Wifi phones have the potential to shred the living hell out of Nokia's predictions...

Posted by: Mark Larson

Nokia is off their rocker.

Posted by: hylton

Yep, never gonna happen...not in this millenium anyway...

Chris

Posted by: ChrisFB

MP3 player - yeah, I can see it trouncing the portables and I'd venture even Apple knows it and made sure the 100 song cap was put on the ROKR and SLVR iTunes capable phones.

As far as anything but casual spur of the moment photography or videos, forget it. The whole idea of a cell phone is convenience and portability. The limiting factor here is that they don't make decent quality cameras ultra tiny for a reason - they can't. Lenses/optics and real zoom is important and that can't be accomplished in tiny spaces. This is totally separate from resolution/megapixels/processing/storage. I can certainly see it eating away at the very low end and disposables, but there's a reason besides coincidence why even tiny phones have digital cameras yet decent digital cameras (even those priding themselves on smaller form factors) are significantly bigger than most phones.

Posted by: kaplanfx

low end cameras may be dead, but I agree with Chris, phones simply won't replace SLR's due to the size of the lens.

-Kap

Posted by: Chillin

Cell phones will most definetely continue to eat into the MP3 player and DigiCam markets, but they will never swallow them.

Posted by: Phoenix88

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Originally Posted by Chillin

Cell phones will most definetely continue to eat into the MP3 player and DigiCam markets, but they will never swallow them.

Well said!

Posted by: ascalon

Unless they figure out a way to stream music directly into our brains, I don't think the mp3 player is going away, not even with cell phones. Cameras, maybe, but not music players. Maybe they don't sell as many cameras anymore because everyone has one already