Apples found on Motorola stand

DESPITE INTENSIVE QUESTIONING from an INQ reporter, Motorola's reps on its mobile phone stand here at CeBIT couldn't explain why four Apple Macs were just sitting there on its stand. They were showcasing iTunes software and right next to a big sign stating it was an iTunes showcase.

Yes, but where was the accompanying iTunes mobile handset from Motorola? Absolutely no sign of it. All Motorola appeared to be doing was to get visitors accustomed to finding the ITunes site.

Meanwhile at the Samsung official press conference, Kitae Lee, president of Samsung's telecommunications network business, was adamant that Samsung will be technologically agnostic. He argued that Samsung can offer all the codecs required to build any type of music player the market wants. Be that Apple, Microsoft or whatever.

He pointed out that samsung's greatest strength is in its mobile phones so that is where the company will concentrate its music playing. Samsung also compared the current battle over music player standards to the previous situation with mobile phone OS standards. In the end samsung has supported them all - Microsoft, Symbian and PalmSource. It intends to do exactly the same with digital music players.

Lee overlooked the fact that one of his colleagues had just shown slides of some very nice dedicated players - including the highly fashionable YP-F1. Plus all the assembled journalists walked off afterwards with a YP-T7 as a present. Bet none of the other rags mention that! Tee-Hee. µ