I can't decide how to interpret these numbers: 11.4% of cellphone users surveyed are interested in buying music and other audio services (endlessly looping, ear-tearing sine waves, strangely enough) for use on their mobile handset. The question is, did the other 89% of people not really think it was practical yet, but will come around, or were they vehemently opposed to trying to converge yet another function into already-expensive handsets. Sure, you and I don't mind listening to music on our phones, because we're big nerds. And in the future, I don't expect the resistance to convergence will do anything but decrease (people are just going to accept that phones are turning into computers, minus the occasional Luddite anachronisms).

But whatever, I guess it's a good sign, in general. I'm sure if you polled another thousand cellphone users right now far less than half of them would say they are interested in PDA-like functions on their phone, despite the fact that that's clearly where the market is trying to go.

Read - Cell-Phone Users Want Their Tunes [Yahoo (Techweb)]

Related
Engineers Warn of Crashing Semiconductor Market [Gizmodo]
Apple to Release iTunes for Motorola Phones [Gizmodo]
Motorola Webcast Highlights [Gizmodo]

Contact information for this author is not available.