Continued:

What the PSP dock does (once you spend $350 for it) is that it connects to the Internet as well as your PC/TV. Brilliantly, no matter where you are in the world, if you are connected via the Internet, you can stream your TV (or whatever device you connected to your base station back home) onto the PSP. Quite impressive, indeed!

Now that Apple has pulled out of the multi-billion dollar negotiations with Samsung, it has obviously irked Samsung enough for the world’s largest electronics maker to introduce a 3GB cell phone which situates nicely between the Apple Nano models and close enough to the N90 and SE W800i/900i models; Samsung is clearly hoping to kill more than a single bird with its new device. And since the phone will let you watch videos, it lands right next to the video iPod.

Interestingly, the main competitor to the video iPod is none other than Apple’s very own iPod Nano. The form factor and functionality of the Nano has strikingly caught everyone’s imaginations, thereby resulting in Apple retailing approximately a million units in mere 17 days.

Even though I’ve discussed a variety of events, which has unfortunately disconnected the piece somewhat, the key concept was to point out that there is a lot happening in the portable audio/multimedia player market (especially with Apple and the rest of the significant players). As we know it, a wide variety of independent disjoint events could end up killing the iPod family, which in return could put an end to the MP3 player market once and for all.