What about a broadband wireless-enabled iPod?

(Friday) November 4, 2005   •   admin

San Diego-based wireless technology consulting firm inCode is out with what they are calling their Top 10 Global Wireless Predictions for 2006.

One of their predictions, “New Entrants in Mobile Music Battle the iTunes Model,” really jumps out at me.

I like the idea of a MVNO (“Mobile Virtual Network Operator”) totally focused on downloads. I’d like to take this idea a lot further.

Here’s how I think this would work. Make a new generation of portable music and video players with wireless broadband EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) or Wi-Fi capability. Start a wireless broadband MVNO service to service these players, and their users. Equip monthly subscribers with the ability to let users purchase and download music and video from MVNO central servers, and then let these users save this content directly to their device.

This device could be an iPod, or a new device with similar playback capability. One key difference: it receives and distributes content wirelessly.

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