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What is the most important feature in a music phone?
By JBC on 12 August 2009
GLOBAL – It’s that time of the week again folks, where we roll out the questions and you wade in with the answers. The responses to our previous “what is the most important feature” polls have been truly astounding. Not only have we had thousands of votes, but a lot of brilliant feedback too. Please, keep the responses coming (and remember we’re still running our comment of the week compo). This week though is all about music phones. Nokia makes plenty of them, but what are the features that are most important in a music phone? Good speakers would seem to be important, but only to those who don’t listen on a headset. An amp then, might be more important, or the headphones themselves or connectivity such as Bluetooth. Only you can tell what’s most important to you, so please, let us know in the poll below. If your priority isn’t listed, feel free to add into “other”.
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August 12th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Hi
This is very usefull information
Naresh Sharma
Mobile Sandesh Team
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August 12th, 2009 at 11:44 am
The music player certainly needs an update, but overall sound quality in terms of clarity and detail needs to be A1. You needs something like the S-Master amp that you find in the Sony X-Series Walkman which kicks iPods into the long grass.
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August 12th, 2009 at 11:51 am
All things in the list is good now, but I need playlist files that can be edit in PC. An ordinary m3u file that only content relative pathes of songs, can be generate by foobar or other software. I remenber I can do this in old 6260, and I want same thing in N97.
And when I choose an album to play, I hope it can play next album when this is end, or play songs by next singer when this one is end, not repeat in same one.
Easy quest, and basic things for a music player I think.
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August 12th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
The most important feature for me in a music phone is the battery life, I travel long hours with the type of work that I have and mostly I got my phones music player as my company, I want it to last at least 24hours nonstop.
I also like to see improvements on the sound quality specialy through headphone. It should be crisp and clear with shattering bass.
I like to see the Reverb audio set up on 6120 Classic to be resurrected and last but not the least, MP3 editor, so we cud rip MP3 to ringtones, add up effects or new rythms to rehash songs making it new thus encouraging creativity from users.
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August 12th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
I selected other and put “sound quality.” If the music player does not process the notes on the music file/track then there’s no quality sound.
Everything else on that list comes after quility music is produced.
Who’s putting these surveys together? Everytime I look at them, they’re always messed up.
It’s like asking a multiple choise question with no right answer.
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August 12th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Only two things missing from the current S60 music player:
1. Gapless playback
Most other mp3 players have this already
2. Better volume steps
10 steps is not enough. More than 20 would be overkill.
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August 12th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
First storage, second battery life. Have no idea how speakers are winning, use headphones people!
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August 12th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
I voted for better battery life, but only because as we all know, battery life isn’t Nokia’s attraction.
But, if Nokia had good batteries like HTC (ex), then i would vote for sound quality. I don’t remember seing a Bang & Olufsen powered Nokia, but i’ve seen already a Samsung powered by them. That sucks…
On a time that the best isn’t enough, Nokia should start thinking about “elevating” its standards..
I think Nokia could also allow us to customize the music player. Not only with themes, but also with plug-ins, just like windows media player does..
But like i said, the main thing is having a battery that resists (ex) a long day on the beach. (I know the 5800 isn’t capable of that).
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August 12th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Amp, Dedicated music controls, Storage and a standard 3.5mm jack are all essential. Stainless steel construction is nice too. Think N91 and you have your best effort. The only other two N-Series phones with dedicated buttons on the front are the N81 and N96, and both find the buttons too cramped. The N95 was worse though, hiding music buttons away, so that you can’t skip tracks while half-way through typing a URL into the web browser – something that I do a fair amount on my N91.
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August 13th, 2009 at 2:34 am
I voted for the battery because in the line of work that I have were I travel long hours, I need a music player that could last at least 24hours nonstop.
I love to see the Reverb Audio on 6120 Classic to NSeries phones since I’m a big fan of this feature.
I want an MP3 editor as well that could shorten, improve or tweak files, in this way we could modify it to suite to our taste thus stimulating creativity among users.
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August 13th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Why is it that nokia phones happen to be the worst at playing eaac+ files. They just sound horrible playing them off the n96 and n86. I mean through hell to convert about 5000 songs to the aweaome super compressed format only to get average sound quality out of my phone. and since i dont wanna be like my friendds who carry a DSLR, cellphone, portable media player usually psp, and ipod all around with them this is what i;m stuck with. So please nokia either re-write ur music player to better play Sbr and ps enhancements in he-aac v2 or simply invent ur own audio enhancements that will give better quality then maybe just maybe we wont have a need for amps, equalizers and all this other “options” u list in ur survey.
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August 14th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Al, i totally agree on the “gap-less playback” point. It’s pretty annoying when you listen to an album with cross fading songs (e.g. live performance).
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August 15th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Oddly enough, my most-desired feature for a music phone is better Microsoft Exchange support
. Seriously, I would love for my next phone to be an N86 8MP. I would love to have that camera, and the media interface, the dedicated media buttons, and especially the FM transmitter. But I can’t get it, not unless I want to lose access to my work email. N-series phones don’t support Exchange Server-enforced security polices, so my email, calendar, contacts, and tasks won’t sync. I get the whole distinction between consumer and business devices, but we E-Series users listen to MP3’s on our car radios, too, and would kill for a phone with an FM transmitter. It’s not the end of the world, since we can plug in with a tape adapter or aux in if we have one (after finding our 2.5mm adapter), but boy would it be nice, especially on my ‘97 Subaru with its broken tape deck 
. The iPhone plays in the same consumer/ entertainment space as the N Series does, and it supports Exchange Server security just fine. Really looking forward to the day when Nokia comes out with a “god” device, that just plain does everything.
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August 25th, 2009 at 8:51 am
I love my Nokia 5800, but the music player app is to slow to show all my songs, there is a huge room of improvement in the app.
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September 6th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
firstly,im vote 4 quality of sound..2nd is storage..3rd is battery life..now i use nokia 5800..i think nokia must enhanced the quality mega bass like sony ericsson walkman edition.just my opinion..whtever bad or good about nokia phones..,im always support it…hm-luv my nokia 5800 expressmusic..
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October 26th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
YEAAAAAAAAAA 5800 XPRESS MUSIC ROCKSSSSSSSSS..awesome phone…sony ericsson suckks…
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