Monday, December 5, 2011

Will mobile phone competition spell the end of the MP3 player?



Berlin - Even though it seems that everyone is getting a smartphone these days, there is still a market for the lowly MP3 player - the devices that got the digital music revolution started in the first place - especially if you're looking for a multimedia device that won't break the budget.

Still, it's a fair question to wonder if a basic MP3 player has any kind of long-term future, when market analysts note that every second mobile phone purchased tends to be a smartphone. A Gartner survey suggests 95 per cent of the German market for example will be based on smartphones by 2015.

Which would seem to argue against people keeping separate music players. However, the German Society for Entertainment and Communications Technology (gfu) sees a future for them.

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