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The E18 uses it's own battery, and if it does anything to your phone, it will be charging it.
I bought one,2 weeks ago, and i'm really enjoying it, i just can't get my Samsung Galaxy S3 to recognize it, but i think it's due to android 4.4.4 and cyanogenmod
I bought one,2 weeks ago, and i'm really enjoying it, i just can't get my Samsung Galaxy S3 to recognize it, but i think it's due to android 4.4.4 and cyanogenmod
Your assessment of the sound quality concurs with my own, but it was because the impracticality of the device for the “smartphone user on the move” that I eventually gave up on mine.
1. The USB to USB connectors are a cheap construction and the cable protrudes from the bottom, making a loop that adds more than an inch to the depth of pocket needed for it. Given the price, FiiO could easily have sourced and bundled some good quality interconnects that ran the cable to the side or front of the connector, to better suit coupling.
2. If you're on the move, you really want to attach the E18 to the smartphone, or risk the cable damaging being pulled, damaging the USB socket. FiiO's solution is a pair of very wide rubber bands that run across the touch screen of the smartphone. They make the phone all but impossible to access for phone calls or anything else while it is attached. Even a set of tiny double-facing suction caps would be better.
3. The little rubber pads that go between the metal E18 and the "mostly plastic" mobile phone case, before applying the wide rubber straps, did not last the fortnight; they just left a black deposit on the surfaces. Not much protection for your expensive smartphone case there.
4. When you contact FiiO, they make all kinds of "concern for customers" sounds but do nothing. I look from time to time in the hope that they might have fixed a few of the obvious problems which make the product unsuited to my kind of consumer but they haven't bothered.
As I said about a year, and a smartphone, ago, it’s a great sounding product but utterly impractical, uses poor quality interconnect cable and renders your smartphone unusable unless you remove the rubber bands that run across its screen.
My Samsung Note 4 will take a 128GB microSDXC card, which I can load with FLACs etc, but what is the point if all it offers is a horrible-sounding Qualcomm DAC? I was hoping FiiO might now offer a suitable solution but apparently not.