Cell Phone MP3 Players

by Emily Price | More from this Blogger

03 Nov 2006 02:41 AM

I went to visit a friend on mine in New York last weekend. I had never been to the city so she took me on a whirlwind tour of all of the big sights like Times Square, Radio City etc the night I got there. While we were walking around in Manhattan she pulled out her cell phone and decided to play a few songs she had downloaded that morning as our "Soundtrack to touring New York". As we talked about it I found out that the music files on her phone were not originally downloaded as soundtrack music, but rather a failed attempt at downloading new ring tones for her cell phone.

It seems like more and more cell phone manufacturers are making cell phones that double as mp3 players. The music typically has to be purchased from the store specific to your cell phone carrier, the selection is limited, and the songs are usually at least a dollar or more a pop. In an age of mp3 players that are microscopic in size, why would you ever download music onto your cell phone?

I buy music online. I typically will do it from the iTunes store where you can shop through millions of titles and every song is only $.99. Once you download a song it is stored on your computer hard drive, can be burned to a CD, or put on your mp3 player to be listened to on the go. A song downloaded onto a cell phone to my knowledge can only be listened to on your phone, and only through the crappy built-in cell phone speakers on your phone, or through headphones. It doesn't make very much sense to me why you would pay more for the songs, for less functionality.

Do any of you download music to your cell phone?

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