The X7's Music player will not match consumer expectation. Oh, and I bet a lot of people will ask what the "podcast" menu option does. It takes you to a blank screen with no explanation of what to do press Help and you get some nice info about listening to the built in FM radio.
Again, old hands know you need to get a third party podcast application, or copy over podcasts from your computer that have the genre field marked "Podcast" to make this work, but again, someone coming cold to the X7 is going to go "this is broken". Again, you can't mark this down as anything but a fail. Even a simple line of code along the lines of if there are no podcasts, do not show the podcast menu would make this a far better implementation in the UI.
Audio quality is rarely a problem on Nokia handsets, especially if you use your own headphones. The fact I can spot the compression artefacts and the warblings of a small MP3 is not a fault of the audio processing used, it shows that it's replicating the contents of the file as well as can be expected. Where I do have an issue is that the X7 still does not do gapless playback - where one music file plays seamlessly into a second track. It's an important issue if you listen to a lot of live music or classical music.
It's an even bigger problem if you love concept albums guilty as charged, but everyone should listen to Amarok at least once. This should be a matter of professional pride to whoever is leading the music playback team, and it's a shame Nokia still hasn't figured out how to do this.
And then there are the "fake" speaker grills on the outside of the handset. I do feel cheated that only two speakers are employed, and they're at the base when in portrait orientation of the device so easily covered by your hand when holding the device.
On first glance, the media phone X7 has four speakers - could this be a little pocket Dolby system? In fact, the truth is much more horrible. It is, effectively, a mono device. Yes, there are two speakers on the circuit board, but there is no effective stereo coming from the device when you use the loudspeakers as opposed to headphones, which are stereo.
My first clue was Carrie Anne by The Hollies, one of those delightful 60's "fake stereo" songs with the vocals in one ear and the instrument in the left. It sounded mixed together when I really focused on the sound. I tested the same file on the X6 by the way, and the obvious stereo split in this magical mono track was obvious. So forget the tech specs, forget what you were hoping for and trust my ears. The X7 is as mono as an original pressing of "Please Please Me" just not worth as much.
Nokia have updated the Music player application for Anna, but they seem to have taken out a few bugs and quirks, while leaving the vast majority of code in place. Is an OS's music player as vital as its web browser? That's a good question, because I know that the online community will push that the web browser is key. But a music player has a very well defined set of parameters and only a handful of UI use cases.
It should be an easier target to hit. Nokia haven't managed a clean kill - they've wounded, they've maimed, but they've not landed a clean blow.
Music player in Symbian Anna works, but it's not a simple and easy ride for the user. On to video and the big bugbear in the past on S60 has been the limited codec support - the chances are that just because a video file played on your computer did not mean that it would play on your phone. Thankfully those days are long past - and both Steve and I have thrown a number of different video files with different codecs and compressions onto the X7, and they've all played smoothly, with no stutter.
Nokia X has another exciting feature, the machine uses a waterproof metal shell and gorilla scratch-resistant glass. In addition, the machine supports NFC function, can use the mobile phone as an electronic wallet, and at the same time with GPS navigation, WiFi, gravity sensor, electronic compass, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor and other functions, mAh battery is quite satisfactory.
The Symbian system has low hardware requirements. Support Flash It is reported that PR2 is adopted. The 1G ROM provides a guarantee for the system upgrade. Pretty much like winmo and the marketplace. Winmo has a huge amount of apps but marketplace only have part of it.
So please do some research before you speak. Stop making yourself a laughstock. If you want to say something bad about nokia, try the crap camera or the not great looking UI but never about the apps. Nice idea by nokia but how about the battery life? It will be very annoying to have a phone with 4 speakers but will eventually die after songs.. I don't know if it's just me who notices that Nokia is trying to deceive the people by giving high-resolution cameras but with FIXED-focus!
This marketing strategy even made me loath nokia more. Autofocus is essential as the resolution. Just because some people are dumb who thinks higher mp is always better, doesn't mean they have to take advantage of it! Post your comment.
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