Should a mobile phone that can play an MP3 be regarded as an MP3 player? That's the question Jemima Kiss asks over at The Guardian's Digital Content Blog. That total of 32.1 million MP3 players sold last year includes a significant percentage of smart(ish) phones, of the order of 75%, which makes the headline figure 'a little disingenuous'. I disagree. Read on for my thoughts....
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When will the Nokia Music Player have gapless playback?
i use my M82, with my Sennheiser headphones and a 16GB card, mp3's work fine, display album art etc.
i don't think i'll buy another ipod...
If only you could "rate" songs and have gapless playback... it would be perfect...
The other thing is that most normal people can now fit their entire music collection, at reasonable quality, onto an affordable flash card. That's an important factor, which was a big selling point for the original, hard-drive-based iPods.
The big advantage that smartphones hold over mp3 players in the music sphere is their communications capability. Comes with Music is a start, but dynamic features loom large. How about a dynamic playlist, which 'calls' a download source for weekly updates of new music based on genre or other elements? Podcasting linked to location?? The sky is the limit 😊
32 million devices doesn't mean 32 million users. Under this classification I own at least two, and more like half a dozen MP3 players.
Another interesting aspect about music on phones is usability.
while cameraphones still lag somewhat behind standalone cameras, music phones are almost always actually superior to standalones.
I realise its subjective but I find people are now realizing the advantages of keypads for searching songs not to mention huge screens. I personally find nokia's more comfortable music players than the almighty ipods.
GPS. I think GPS will be next one.
Now I have a Nokia E71 with 8Gb card and Sennheiser CX300 and that�s fine (I will go for a 16gb card as soon as possible)
From Argentina, GG
well , i use my black N82 with my bh-604 to listen my mp3's , i have stored all my music on a sandisk mobile ultra of 8gb , and like NATANLEVINE said , its very easy to browse through your playlist or search or create playlist with the keypad , in looking forward to buy a micro sd of 16 gb as soon it gets class 6!!!
Its the same problem again...people buy the 800$ phone powered by 3.2' screen by hard earned money and then buy ebook reader,MP3 player!!!!!
Its not the people's problem cauz who will pay for something he already has? its the advertising problem.
by the way the article is good...only replace the ugliest phone in the earth photo "N91" by N81 and t will be excellent.
Well I don't think the N91 is the ugliest phone on eart, plus it's still (after several years) the best music phone from Nokia (sound quality wise at least). For me it's enough reasont to put its picture. Best regards.