Today’s Real Time column in the WSJ is entitled Setting Challengers’ Odds In Cutting Apple’s Lead. The column discusses the battle of handsets vs. iPods in the MP3 world. The jist of the article is that,

Having used digital music to muscle its way back into the home-computing mix, there’s no way Apple will give up this fight easily or soon — and we’re reluctant to bet against it.

Here’s an email I just fired off to the WSJ commenting on the article’s subject.

Dear Real Time,

Regarding your column dated 4/18/05 “Setting Challengers’ Odds In Cutting Apple’s Lead,” I agree that Apple has an awesome brand and creates great-looking, highly-functional and easy-to-use products. However, I have a couple of comments related to cell phone functionality.

I currently own four digital cameras if you include my phone (an Audiovox SMT5600). In the past few months since buying the Audiovox, I’ve shot more pictures with it than any of my other cameras. The reason why? Well, it’s not because of the great pictures it takes (they’re actually pretty bad), it’s because I have it with me all the time.

I haven’t owned a clock radio in years. My last one broke ages ago… back when I still had my trusty Nokia 8265. Instead of buying yet another clock radio — which all seem doomed to break after a year or so — I just started using the Nokia’s built-in alarm clock. Now with the Audiovox, I use a great little program called CityTime Alarms for my alarm clock. Oh, and I don’t own any watches either. That’s built into the phone too.

In the next few weeks, I’m planning on removing my car stereo and replacing it with a simple hook-up for the Audiovox. My car stereo is basically useless for playing podcasts, while the Audiovox has a surprisingly good media (MP3) player interface.

No plans to buy an iPod here.