More fun with music phones

Posted by ailsa010 on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 06:39 am:

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Music is magic thing, sometimes heavy enough to separate you apart from all things around, and sometimes so tender that it calms you down and enables you to look clearly at your deep inside. To energetic youngsters, music is an indispensable part of their campus life. You can find ear-phoned people at every corner of the campus. But what is the best kind of gadget to serve as your music carrier? CD is too bulky. MP3 player, for all its convenience, lacks badly of functions. Any other choices? Let¡¯s embrace mobiles. Music phones will add to your campus life much more music feel.

Every major cell phone manufacturer has rolled out their music phone brands. Sony Ericsson introduced the Walkman phones, Motorola launched the ROKR iTunes and Nokia delivers music phones under the XpressMusic phone brand.

Here are some typical characteristics of a music phone. And if you wanna buy one , you¡¯d better compare its performance in these regards.
- Large memory (hard disk)
- Support for poular audio formats (MP3, AAC...)
- Good sound quality
- Support for the standard headphones 3.5mm jack
- Dedicated music keys
- Good music software (for PC and Phone)
- Easy to upload music to phone (via bluetooth or USB)
- Easy access to OTA (over-the-air) downloads
- Extended battery time
- FM radio

Since they are launched as phones optimized for playing music, their support of music formats is much more comprehensive than general mobiles. Take examples, Nokia 3250 supports standard audio file formats such as MP3, WMA, M4A and AAC, with a 1GB memory card for storage , that is about 10 hours of music play; Sony Ericsson W900i supports music files like MP3, AAC, AAC+, MIDI, WAV and XMF, with 470MB memory space for about 120-240 songs, kind of humbled by Nokia¡¯s huge capacity. Other big names have their own production lines for this popularity-gaining gadget. For example, LG U880c, besides its music-enabled function, is hailed as the most light and most slim phone in the world,

Though quite versatile support of music compared with other phones, there are still left-out music files. Anyway, no one can be omnipotent, and the rather that it is by no means a big problem, all you need to do is convert(you can use convertors like Xilisoft,Winamp) and make them compatible with your cute phones.

With so many choices out there, feel an urge inside to join this fashion tide? Go ahead.