good to see you got one. Looking forward to impressions when you have the time.
Thanks a lot for your impressions. Even though its not the intended use case, i wanted to see how much battery life it would give while using a dongle with it to compensate for the lack of balanced port.My First Impressions of the M300:
IEMs used: Subtonic Storm, Dunu Zen, Hidition Viento
- Love the size and form factor. Reminds me of the Sony NW-A35/45/55 series or the A105/306. Not as nice build quality-wise but not far off.
- Screen is bright and sharp.
- 3.5mm jack only, but has speaker, which is good/bad. I find it annoying personally, because if I unplug my headphones, sometimes music will start playing out speaker which is umm unexpected while at work.
- Android 13, pretty much bare bones. Has Play Store. I loaded it up with Poweramp and Roon Arc, and a 512GB microsd card
- Uses stock android volume control system, for the most part. It looks like it may be slightly customized, but its not as fancy as other players.
- Does not have a "previous track" button. Only forward track button.
- Poweramp loaded my music off SD very very slowly for some reason. Much slower than I expected. No idea why. The SoC should be perfectly acceptable.
- Snapdragon SoC
- Has no problem with my IEMs including the very hard to drive Subtonic Storm.
- Sound sounds for the most part, transparent, punchy, and airy. Definitely not warm like some older Hiby stuff. It's "clean" but not sterile.
- Battery life is suprisingly good. Better than my other Android-DAPs for sure and can easily last a full day of off and on usage, even with my most power hungry IEM.
- FM Radio app is something I miss from older HTC devices. Nice to see it back as someone who listens to a lot of Sports Radio.
Same here, but I consider it a minor problem: precisely evaluating the battery % charge is non trivial and that’s why many devices use bars or pictorials to show charge state.
It could be... although this type of "battery saver" feature usually stops charging around ~80%. I suspect the battery is actually 100% charged, but the % charge / battery voltage curve has not been precisely calibrated yet by the software / firmware. If the feature is implemented correctly in the M300, it should "learn" after a few charge/discharge cycles what battery voltages correspond to 0% and 100% charge. Another (similar) explanation is that the M300 includes a "coulomb meter" (aka battery gauge, fuel gauge...) chip: these IC's also need to "learn" and calibrate the battery over a few charge/discharge cycles.
when increasing or decreasing the volume with Bluetooth headset connected, is it the same small jump of volume steps as the Sony A300?My First Impressions of the M300:
IEMs used: Subtonic Storm, Dunu Zen, Hidition Viento
- Love the size and form factor. Reminds me of the Sony NW-A35/45/55 series or the A105/306. Not as nice build quality-wise but not far off.
- Screen is bright and sharp.
- 3.5mm jack only, but has speaker, which is good/bad. I find it annoying personally, because if I unplug my headphones, sometimes music will start playing out speaker which is umm unexpected while at work.
- Android 13, pretty much bare bones. Has Play Store. I loaded it up with Poweramp and Roon Arc, and a 512GB microsd card
- Uses stock android volume control system, for the most part. It looks like it may be slightly customized, but its not as fancy as other players.
- Does not have a "previous track" button. Only forward track button.
- Poweramp loaded my music off SD very very slowly for some reason. Much slower than I expected. No idea why. The SoC should be perfectly acceptable.
- Snapdragon SoC
- Has no problem with my IEMs including the very hard to drive Subtonic Storm.
- Sound sounds for the most part, transparent, punchy, and airy. Definitely not warm like some older Hiby stuff. It's "clean" but not sterile.
- Battery life is suprisingly good. Better than my other Android-DAPs for sure and can easily last a full day of off and on usage, even with my most power hungry IEM.
- FM Radio app is something I miss from older HTC devices. Nice to see it back as someone who listens to a lot of Sports Radio.
This can be a new Android phone issue, some of them charge extremely slow on the first charge when out of the box. Try restarting the device, disconnect cable for a while. If that does not help, just leave it do a full charge and check if they charge normally on the second charge cycle.
