HonestAbe
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Lumia 640
http://www.head-fi.org/t/776381/microsoft-lumia-640-lte#post_11805401
I'll have to settle for the 735 as my carrier is Verizon :/
Lumia 640
http://www.head-fi.org/t/776381/microsoft-lumia-640-lte#post_11805401
If anybody is buying the Vivo X5 Max, try and get your hands on the Platinum Edition. It's a bit thicker but has a much higher capacity battery and more memory. The audio components are the same as the regular X5 Max. More information here:
http://www.gsmarena.com/vivo_x5max_platinum_edition-7277.php
Looking for a new phone that has as much storage capability as possible, decent sounding, and on the cheaper side. Any suggestions? Currently thinking about getting the Nokia Lumia 735 after reading this review:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/775074/nokia-microsoft-lumia-735-review-by-mark2410
but the Windows software is horrible
I like Windows Phone OS a lot! So clean and simple and very fluid, with very little to no lag.
That said, I am not a power user. I tried many apps, just for the fun but find myself not using them, not because the apps suck, but because I just don't find a need for them. In fact I only use my phone for ocassional web browsing, telephoning, messages, camera and mostly music. And with this the phone is rock solid and the OS looks gorgeous in its black theme.
Does the phone work with US LTE bands? Same question goes for the Meizu MX4 Pro. Both are supposedly good audio phones but with little to no support for North America.
HonestAbe, if this describes you then I think the 735 would be an absolutely great phone! I suppose I should have been more clear when I said I thought the OS was horrible. There is very little outside support for the Windows Phone which is why for me I don't like it. I should have prefaced my comment by saying I was coming from a Note 4. I don't consider myself a power user, but the least amount of time I have to take my laptop out to do something the better.
The phone is solid and if you can get past its limitations Windows OS can be a very good OS, I personally just need a bit more from my phone. Cortana is awesome though...
I have an idsd nano paired with my Phone. And it Sounds Good and it's cheaper but not so powerful and customizable than the micro.
But I think I buy a moto x play or style anyone tried the old moto's straight out the headphone jack? Don't want to carry my nano with me the whole time.
The Motos are not that good, clearly fall behind Sony, HTC, Apple and the Samsung Exynos versions.
I believe maybe wrongly that the previous post was referring to Windows 8, but that 10 is different...
Other than being a hideously closed source ecosystem, I must say that the Lumia 930 I had for a short while sounded very good
Today I received a new smartphone for office use, a Microsoft Lumia 640 XL to replace my year old BB Q10, the choice has been made because of the Integrated office suite, I was a bit sceptic about audio quality in this thing, until I inserted a 64Gb Samsung Evo micro SD full of about 7000 mp3/aac tracks of 256-320kbps in compression quality, most albums have been ripped through Itunes and some purchased from Itunes as well. I plugged my Shure SE846 and let it go on shuffle without changing anything in the EQ, guess what?
It's awesomely good! The SQ is comparable to some flagship androids such as the Lg G3 but the soundstage is way too narrow, the lows are very pronounced without bleeding on the other frequencies, quite good mids and acceptable highs. The power output is somewhat lower than let's say LG G3 and iphone 6 but louder than my Z3 by a notch. The user interface is very fluid and browsing through the music library with thousands of tracks is not laggy. Only thing to throw at it, it took about 15min to scan all the tracks on first usage.
Conclusion, this Lumia device surely won't satisfy demanding headfiers but will please the average Joe using sub $100 iems and sensitive on ear headphones. I tested it with the Shure along with a Sony XBA H3 and a Sennheiser Momentum in ear. It seems to have a better synergy with the lowest end Sennheiser than the " too critical" SE846 and H3. I really recommend this phone for people who don't care about the OS. Along with it, the 640 XL will be among the first devices to received Windows 10 with flac support. Finally we should see some audiophile grade Microsoft devices for the coming months.
I don't find the soundstage of my Lumia 640 (non-XL) that narrow at all, it is similar to all the amps and sources I have tried in my audio life.
Off topic and as an aside:
In my opinion it is the pair of headphones that decides the soundstage for the biggest part...and the sound quality overall. Call me an audio sceptic, but I feel the importance of source and amp are vastly overrated. Headphones and speakers have a much bigger say in the overall audio picture. No I never tried an Astell & Kern or Calyx M player for instance, and I don't doubt they will sound better than my humble Lumia, but I find the sound of my Lumia so damn good that I am not bothered by the idea of better premium DAPs.