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And the beat goes on, and on, and on…
By Mike on 18 August 2009
GLOBAL – We wanted to find out what lies at the heart of a great music device, so over the past week we’ve been asking you to vote for the most important feature in a music phone. The poll doors have now firmly been shut (so don’t go clicking), and the votes have been counted. Read on to find out which feature tops the chart.
Thanks for the great response and stream of smart comments shared by many of you – indeed as a few of you pointed out, we should’ve stuck ’sound quality’ in there as one of our poll options (oops), nonetheless those of you that thought this was most important voted ‘other’ and added it there – thank goodness for catch-alls! But ’sound quality’ didn’t win the title of most important feature in a music phone. So what did?
‘Battery life‘ came in as the most important feature, securing a healthy 21% of the vote. Surprised? And some of you explained why, with greg003 kicking things off and making an allusion to your music being a valuable companion on long trips:
“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.”
He goes on to mention improvements in ’sound quality’ as second most important, however, sound quality didn’t come in second as it was pipped by ’speakers’ with 19% of the vote. The ‘other’ option did make it onto the podium though, with 16% and it was here that the ’sound quality’ drum was beaten loudest. Gapless playback was another alternative raised here (along with a few other suggestions), and echoed in the comments.
‘Dedicated music controls’ came in fourth with 9%, closely tailgated by ‘amp’, ‘headphones’ and ’storage’ each earning 8%.
‘Over the air downloads’ brought in 5% of the vote, followed by an ‘FM transmitter’ with 4% and ‘Bluetooth Stereo’ only landing 1%.
What do you reckon to how this played out? As always, please jot down your thoughts below.
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Tags | music phone, poll
August 18th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
battery life is very important for a music phone
and headsets comes second.
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August 18th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
When nokia 5530 xm available for ship? I’ from vietnam.
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August 18th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I second irfun4ever’s comment. There’s no point listening to good music if it doesn’t last as long as you want it to. Just as he said too, sound quality comes next.
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August 18th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Let me add something:
Greg003 said it well, our phone’s music is our company (or atleast, for some of us it is), and not having a music phone capable of stand up for +6hrs is a bad thing.
But… i also talked about it on my comment, with a minor diference: It’s not that music phones have bad batteries, but that Nokia phones have bad batteries.
Let me give you an example: One of my co-workers has the Htc TouchHD, and one time at work he placed it near us playing some musics.. It played all day (at max level) and the next day (with no re-charge) he still had battery to sell. We’ve listened to some musics again untill the day was over, and i noticed that his battery was near the end.
Now let’s see: My sister complains that her 5800 can’t play music for more than 6 hours, and my co-worker’s TouchHD can play 16 hours of music (8+8)?
Worse: 5800XM (Xpress Music) aimed to music lovers, while Htc TouchHD is a productivity phone.
Am i the only one here who thinks this way?
ps: Sorry for the “off-topic”, but in some way it is related to music’s phone features..
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gregg003 Reply:
August 19th, 2009 at 7:20 am
wow, that’s a whole lot of juice c”, nokia should step up on this matter. battery life is the most important feature on a phone because no matter how many feature they’ll put on it, it will be useless if the phone goes empty.
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August 22nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I think battery life and storage should go together.
I agree battery life comes first.
The second one should definitely be sound quality. and I think it could easily be the most voted if it was included.
of course it wasn’t the most voted as most people wouldn’t stand for a while to come up with something that isn’t on the list.
I think sound quality and gapless playback should go together. I hate gaps, as much as I hate transitions that some devices have as an option. At least you should be able to choose.
Anyone knows if 5800 has gapless playback?
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August 27th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
i want ask u something.
which phone is better:
nokia n95 or nokia 5800 express music
and which one is louder?
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August 31st, 2009 at 3:35 pm
when nokia 5530 is going to be launched in india(mumbai)????i am waiting 4 it 4m so long….
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October 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
hello is there a music stand for nokia 5800 Xpress music available
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October 16th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
hi every one,
i am using nokia 5530XM, when i play song or listen radio, i cant see the the bar on home screen like there is short cut menus on home screen, please can you tell me??
or i want to format this fone please can any one tell me how can i format nokia 5530XM??
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November 12th, 2009 at 11:30 am
what about india
tell me reponsible in india to introduced new model
there no new launch in india
what about the india customer wants sometime new only old & old model available in higer cost as compershion other brands………………
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November 17th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I bought a Nokia5530 less than 1 month but I can not call out and can not call in. I sent it to the Nokia Care center to repair this problem more than 2 weeks. I got it back only 1 day and the same problem occured again. I must went back to the Nokia Care Center again. Now I wait wait again, almost 1 week. What happen with Nokia brand.
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