i think it's great that Sony Ericsson is stating in their 3GSM press release that "Sony Ericsson’s new focus for 2005 will be music". let's hope they do it right. on their devices, here's what that means:
1. make sure there is a memory stick duo PRO on all your devices. 128K does no one any good for listening to music. while you are at it, put a 1GIG memory stick OEM packed with every device
2. put a regular old 1/8" stereo mini jack on your devices. you would not beleive the amount of people that don't use the headphones you pack with a device. i bet it's close to 75%. you already do way better than nokia with that stupid pop-port interface they put on their phones, but think hard about this one. if you need to support a headset, put 2 jacks
3. support the bluetooth headphone profile "high quality stereo" profile. bluetooth headphones will start to become more omnipresent thoughout the lifecycle of your phones
4. don't invent a new drm, and for god sakes, don't require me to process my existing mp3s to get them on your device. do the right business deals to make this work.
5. allow downloads OTA - don't make me do some sort of wierd desktop sync. support the weird desktop sync, but don't force me to use it. bluetooth transfer is dandy as well.
i'm sure i missed something, but that's a good start
Posted by Steve at February 9, 2005 11:09 PM | TrackBack