I want to get a large capacity miniSD card for my E61 so I can use it as a music player, and I was wondering if people here have any suggestions for brands and types?
I've heard that some 2gb miniSDs can be a bit slow, can this be avoided on the E61 by buying a high speed card?
krisse wrote:I want to get a large capacity miniSD card for my E61 so I can use it as a music player, and I was wondering if people here have any suggestions for brands and types?I've heard that some 2gb miniSDs can be a bit slow, can this be avoided on the E61 by buying a high speed card?
I bought the normal Sandisk one, not the high speed model and i haven't had any problems with it. I've several applications and dozens of MP3s and movies stored on it, it all works just fine, not slow at all.
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My Sandisk 2GB is perfect
Movies play without any glitches.
Regards, Michael
ELP, bodstrup, you both have low speed 2GB miniSDs and there's no problems with them on the E61?
Huzzah if that's the case! 😊
I wonder why Nokia only bundled mono earphones with it, the E61 seems like a wonderful media player and it's got stereo support, they could have included some stereo headphones.
My advice: buy the faster you can get.
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My Sandisk 2Gb was cheap and does not say anything that suggests it is a high speed card.
I watch movies compressed with Super and Smartmovie at nearly 400 kb/s with absolutely no problems.
Where there may be problems wiot this card is on a N93 that have to WRITE at high speed.
The E61 is a very good media player, the volume control on my POP/mini jack adapter from Nokia works fine. I use a Sennheiser headphone with this adapter.
Regards, Michael
krisse wrote:ELP, bodstrup, you both have low speed 2GB miniSDs and there's no problems with them on the E61?
Yep, 2GB standard Snadisk (not ultra II), it works just fine. Rather than spending your money trying to buy the fastest card you can (it won't be of any use), use it to buy the largest capacity card you can from a well-known brand and from a reputable dealer to avoid fakes.
krisse wrote:
I wonder why Nokia only bundled mono earphones with it, the E61 seems like a wonderful media player and it's got stereo support, they could have included some stereo headphones.
Personnally, i don't care about the mono earphones. Earphones bundled with mp3 players or phones are always crap (for me) so i prefer not to pay for them and use my earphones that i already have and like. What pisses me off though is that they didn't supply the adapter cable that allows you to connect normal earphones to the phone. So you've got to buy it separately.
Just like you, I thought that the E61 could be a nice MP3 player. So i bought one of these adapter cables. Not the official Nokia one though because it is ridiculously expensive but a cheap no-name one. It turned to be a mono cable 😡 (so far for being a cheapskate). But anyway, using my good quality earphones, the sound coming out of the E61 is really bad, big disapointment here, i couldn't listen to that more than 5 minutes. I still would like to try with the official Nokia adapter to see if it makes any difference at all but i doubt it.
Ok. Faster and bigger you can get😊
elp wrote:Just like you, I thought that the E61 could be a nice MP3 player. So i bought one of these adapter cables. Not the official Nokia one though because it is ridiculously expensive but a cheap no-name one. It turned to be a mono cable 😡 (so far for being a cheapskate). But anyway, using my good quality earphones, the sound coming out of the E61 is really bad, big disapointment here, i couldn't listen to that more than 5 minutes. I still would like to try with the official Nokia adapter to see if it makes any difference at all but i doubt it.
Erm... you're complaining because the sound isn't good through a mono adapter? :tongue: It doesn't really matter how good the earphones are if the adapter is rubbish and mono.
I've just managed to get my E61 working, got the card etc today, and it sounds really good! Best I've ever had from a music player to be honest, I totally agree with bodstrup.
I think you ought to try an official adapter before forming an opinion, so you can hear it working in stereo. It only takes one weak link in the chain to ruin the sound quality of a music player. The official one doesn't cost that much either, £15, which isn't much compared to the cost of the phone itself.
krisse wrote:Erm... you're complaining because the sound isn't good through a mono adapter? :tongue: It doesn't really matter how good the earphones are if the adapter is rubbish and mono.
The fact that the sound is mono or stereo has nothing to do with the sound quality. The only difference between mono and stereo is that with a mono equipment, all the instruments seem to come from a single point in space while with a good quality stereo equipment and recording, you can localize the different instruments in front of you. Stereo gives more realism to the recording but doesn't change the sound quality in any way.
krisse wrote:
I've just managed to get my E61 working, got the card etc today, and it sounds really good! Best I've ever had from a music player to be honest, I totally agree with bodstrup.I think you ought to try an official adapter before forming an opinion, so you can hear it working in stereo. It only takes one weak link in the chain to ruin the sound quality of a music player. The official one doesn't cost that much either, �15, which isn't much compared to the cost of the phone itself.
I do agree that i should try with the official adapter first (and i will as soon as i get a chance to do it). However, a cable is a cable. The only difference between a rubbish cable and a good quality cable is its robustness (whether or not it will last). �15 is not much compared to the price of the phone sure but it is ridiculous for a basic 4 inches adapter cable. As always, i might be completely wrong of course and the official adapter might transform my E61 into an iPod killer, i'll just wait and see (well, listen).
I find with the e61 the sound quality is not great but it helps if you set an eq level where you take everything down by two clicks.
In what format are you watching films? I've never actually tried it yet.
charlesgknight wrote:
In what format are you watching films? I've never actually tried it yet.
You'll need to convert your movies to MP4 or 3GP. There is at least one free converter software that you can use on your PC to do that (SUPER). Search this forum for the settings.
elp wrote:The fact that the sound is mono or stereo has nothing to do with the sound quality. The only difference between mono and stereo is that with a mono equipment, all the instruments seem to come from a single point in space while with a good quality stereo equipment and recording, you can localize the different instruments in front of you. Stereo gives more realism to the recording but doesn't change the sound quality in any way.
Do you know anything about audio at all? Off course modern (sonicly maximized) stereo recordings, deteriorate substantually when you run them through a cheap (mono) cable. And my E61 sounds very clean with my AD-15 adapter and Sennheiser HD-25 headphone.
Trat wrote:Do you know anything about audio at all? Off course modern (sonicly maximized) stereo recordings, deteriorate substantually when you run them through a cheap (mono) cable. And my E61 sounds very clean with my AD-15 adapter and Sennheiser HD-25 headphone.
Hence what i said at the end of my post:
elp wrote:
As always, i might be completely wrong of course and the official adapter might transform my E61 into an iPod killer, i'll just wait and see (well, listen).