A NEW WAVE of mobile phones equipped with tiny yet powerful hard disk drives is threatening to put an end to the meteoric rise of the iPod as the public's favourite portable digital music player. "When you look at the typical consumer, there are three things that they may come back to their house for if they have left one of them behind: their wallet, their keys and their mobile phone," says Alan Varghese, principal analyst of semiconductors research with ABI Research. "Now the cellular industry is trying to get to the point where even the wallet and the keys are part of the handset. There is a clear trend by which the mobile phone is positioning itself as the singular device that you take with you at all times."
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