As written by Tom here (also see his final addition to the review here)
The first part of my review of the O2 Cocoon was mainly about the hardware: the look and feel of the thing you hold. This time, I’m going to look more at the phone’s music features.
When it comes down to it, the Cocoon is really just a normal mobile phone. It’s not a smartphone, but it will do the normal things a modern phone does. It’s got Java, calculator, calendar, notepad, voice recorder, and so on. It’s got a browser, which seems to be fairly functional. It’s got a camera… two, in fact, as is common with 3G phones.
It also has music player functionality. O2 seem to be positioning the Cocoon as a music-oriented device, with external player buttons, stereo speakers, halfway-decent earphones, and so forth.
This is nothing new, though. We’ve had music-oriented mobile phones for years now, and none of them have really worked too well. As far as I’m concerned, I always end up thinking, “Hmmm… nice try, but I think I’ll stick with my iPod.”
Considering my personality type, I was fairly late to the game when it came to iPods. I’ve been a Mac user since 1999, and I’ve had a reasonably large MP3 collection since 1997. Even so, I didn’t own an iPod until 2004, partly because I was working either at home, or living very close to work. With the lack of a long commuter journey, I never really needed anything to keep me entertained.
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