S60 Open to new features

Love music on my N82 - now my iPod gathers dust. Sounds great and it's always with me (if I remember the headset). Just need more space than the 2G card it came with.

I have little insight regarding music on mobile in general but maybe because often it's too "difficult" to get music onto your phone. Didn't Symbian Guru say it took 17 hours to get 7G of music onto his W960? Yikes.

Love the music capabilities of my N95, but almost never use it because of battery life issues. The N95's battery life is marginal enough without adding music to the device's tasks.

I browse the internet and shoot photos and movies with my N95 in addition to regular phone functionality, and my N95 has put my digital point-and-shoot camera out to pasture.

But, until I get MUCH better battery life, I'll still need to carry my iPod with me.

...this survey probably isn't too relevent as you're one of the only people in the US using S60 (well perhaps I exaggerate a little).

Being more constructive, I would echo the comment above about battery life. Also, mostly fixed on newer devices, audio quality was actually quite poor on devices right up to N73, N80 etc. There was usually quite a lot of background hiss (due to hardware design and those awful pop-port connectors).

While I do use my N95 for all my mobile music needs, there's one glaring drawback, and that's, ironically, sideloading options. It's painful, specifically if you've used iTunes. Windows Media Player is a painful experience, as is using Winamp to manage a portable device.

I can drag and drop from folders, but I want autoplaylists, and speedy transfers. I want to be able to *easily* tell my computer to put any songs that I've not listened to in the past month onto my phone, and for it to sync the playcounts back to my desktop music player later.

To me, there are 2 parts to the mobile music equation: getting music ONTO the device, and enjoying music once it's there. S60 excels, imo, at the latter, but SUCKS at the former. What's funny is that something like the iPhone, is the complete opposite. It's dead easy to get music ONTO the iPhone, but when you want to enjoy it, you have a mono speaker, no stereo bluetooth, and what might as well be a proprietary audio port. Two music giants and they each only have half of the equation.

Posted by: Ricky Cadden | April 18, 2008 04:33 PM

For me, it is more about the fact that I have an E-Series running S60 through work. This (E61i) doesn't really allow me to listen to music that well as far as I'm aware, even with decent headphones apparently. I've read a few posts on other blogs about a similar issue.

It's interesting young people are willing to pay 100-200 euros for a concert of their favourite music artist, but after that same youngsters go home and download all the music from P2P networks, because "it's too expensive".

Of course, badly done online music stores with unreasonable DRM restrictions, such as Nokia Music Store, are part of the problem. It's interesting to see when the industry evolves into really respects consumers' rights.

It's unfortunate Nokia as a new player doesn't bring anything new into this business. Instead it's offering just one more restricted Windows Media DRM store with the same limitations as elsewhere.

I have an E65, and I use it as a music player when I'm travelling.
Do you know that NOKIA sells the E65 with a basic mono earphone ?