James Kendrick notes that it appears Steve Ballmer is dropping hints about an iPod killer that Microsoft is
working on, which would be a hybrid
digital audio player / cell phone. The justification for this is that people do not want to carry two devices to
perform these functions. While I can see some logic in that statement, this issue comes down to battery life for me. I simply don't believe that most people are willing to spend their day draining their phone's battery listening to music, just to have an important call be interrupted by a lack of juice at an inopportune time. Battery technology needs to come quite a bit further to the point where power consumption just isn't an issue before users will adopt this hybrid in large numbers.
