Will phones kill the iPod?

Yes, in a word. Before going away for the weekend I loaded the radio programmes I had missed onto the N93, to catch up in the car. The audio is brilliant, and I could take calls simply by pressing the accept button on the dongle on the headphones. So simple.
The big limitation was memory. Over the weekend I took quite a large number of pictures and a couple of short videos and had to start deleting MP3s fairly early on.
On the other hand, I have just bought a 1 gigabyte SD card on eBay for just £18 including postage, so flash memory is clearly coming down in price very fast. I give the iPod another year, max.
So what will Apple do? The last effort to create an iPod phone, the Motorola Rokr, was a complete CROK, with deliberately crippled playback capabilities and all the style of a Mars bar. Apple probably can't break into the mobile phone market on its own - it is a maverick and the telecoms sector values cooperation above all. And the mobile networks want to operate their own iTunes and don't see why Apple should get a look-in.