{"id":701,"date":"2007-01-09T19:11:15-05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T00:11:15+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/dont-call-me\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T19:11:15-05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T00:11:15+00:00","slug":"dont-call-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/dont-call-me\/","title":{"rendered":"(Don’t) Call me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take away most of the iPhone<\/a>‘s extras—phone, camera, wifi—and drop the US$600 price (including required two-year cell contract) and you’ve probably got a nice, reasonably-priced media device that I’d consider buying; it’d probably be on par with a current video iPod, if the memory capacity were bumped up sufficiently. I don’t need a lower-resolution camera than the one I’ve already got, and I don’t need to be connected to the net 24 hours a day (which, granted, is only about 3 hours more than I am right now). Frankly, I don’t need video playback either, although it’d be nice to replace that functionality with some more open and\/or lossless audio codecs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

But most of all I don’t want a cell phone!<\/strong> Don’t use one, don’t need one, don’t want one. Can’t think of anything less desirable that doesn’t involve physical pain.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

It’s an impressive bit of tech, cramming all that stuff in there, but it’s not for me. Given the level of similarity I’ve discovered I share with the average consumer, they’re gonna sell billions of these things.<\/p><\/div>

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