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The Future Of MP3 Player Industry

The MP3 player has become synonymous with travel and nearly every human activity that involves movement. For example as I author this article on a train, whizzing its way through the stunning British countryside I am surrounded by people plugged into their MP3 player.

This purely demonstrates the vast popularity of a device that seemingly everyone owns. The reasons behind the popularity of the MP3 player include its preferable size to portable CD players, its ability to offer a faithful digital representation of the music being listened to and above all the personalisation of playlists and the opportunity to carry the best bits of your music library with you wherever you go.

But what will happen to the MP3 player in the future? Like its bulkier cousin the CD player will be resigned to a place on the technological scrapheap, or will it go from strength to strength and continue to be the darling of our pockets? Hopefully this article will be able to present some of the conjecture surrounding these questions.

First and foremost it is likely that in the future the MP3 player will benefit from an enlarged memory. This memory however is less likely to be the hard discs that have been used in the past. Instead portable memory in the future is likely to be flash based. This is because flash not only accesses information faster, but flash drives are far more robust that hard drive varieties.

But apart from the obvious improvements in memory capacity what else is likely to affect the mp3 player? One of the most popular theories is that if the mp3 player industry is to survive it will need to abandon the fiddly, highly technical interfaces that have often been used in the past. Instead more intuitive, simplistic systems should take their place, opening up the use of mp3 players to a completely new market.

One of the largest problems for any mp3 player manufacturer is trying to battle the mobile phone companies that are now incorporating mp3 functionality into their devices with large amounts of success. Understandably consumers are far more likely to carry only one device with them rather than two.

One way in which the mp3 player can continue to be popular is to incorporate other functions and features. In fact this is already evident with the latest generation of devices that now have mp4, or video capabilities. In addition to being able to watch mobiles however, some devices are even including eBook readers meaning that the users has one device for all of their media.

A great deal of what is being discussed here is already in existence within the industry. Naturally companies have realised that an mp3 player that purely plays music is likely to be superseded within two to five years. The result has been a large number of devices hitting the market that are able to combine a number of different features and media types. Subsequently consumers now have players that cater for all of their needs, no matter the environment or personal preference.

These latest devices are the realisation of what has been predicted for generations. Since sci fi started to imagine handheld computers designers have been working towards this objective. It seems today that they have achieved their goal. Whether this means the complete death of the mp3 player remains to be seen.

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