An "iPod that makes phone calls"? Nice try, Motorola, but we ain't falling for it
Talk about a lame attempt to cash in on the iPod's cachet: At MIT's Designing Bits & Pieces Conference, a Motorola exec resorted to describing their new E398 cellphone which comes out later this year as a "mini iPod that makes phone calls". Except that apart from being able to play MP3s, which plenty of other cellphones can do (like pretty much every new Nokia these days, to say nothing of the fact that nearly every smartphone can as well), there isn't much else that the E398 has in common with the iPod. It doesn't have much internal memory — it relies on T-Flash memory cards — though it does have stereo speakers, which neither the iPod nor many other cellphones have. Nice try, Motorola, but get back to us when you've squeezed 20GB in there.
