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very true.
after i bought a k750 i saw in a magazine that it's competition nokia 6230i was better than k750 and i couldn't understood why.until i discovered that the magazine is sponsored by nokia
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Posted: 2007-04-25 11:13:42
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Well, don't get me wrong. But, not that it's really anyone elses business what I do or don't do to a phone I bought; I did it because I wanted to.
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Posted: 2007-04-25 11:36:52
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Well, don,t get me wrong either, but: fair enough
(though, you do mention your mods a lot, considering it's not "anyone's business... gotcha )
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[ This Message was edited by: maggflodd on 2007-04-25 10:40 ]
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Posted: 2007-04-25 11:37:56
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I have them both, and I converted the K750i into a w800i and the sound was slightly better, not very much but it was little better.
though what pisses me off is that I can not change the volume if the key's are locked with the nokia, the other one is that I always have to turn the nokia off just to take the memory card out...

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Posted: 2007-04-25 12:11:42
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@Boba

You are right 90% of the people here will say that but that doesn't make them right. Many here unfortunately are blinded by an SE badge and just believe they must be the best.

But just look on this forum for how many threads there are about low volume or hissing and some of this on top of the range Walkman phones. IMO Walkman is little more than an interface and and marketing that's it.

Recently i looked at both the W950 and W880 neither unfortunately impressed me enough to buy them. Although Nokia don't market the N93 or E61 as Music phones they both have more than enough volume @40-50% and enough power to run a set of Shure EC2 headphones and sorry if people don't like that but it happens to be the truth. They also have preset and user definable equaliser settings and are in a different league to Walkman phones. The only thing they don't have is the fancy Walkman branding but there is just no contest IMO.

They also don't need modding either as pointed out if you need to mod it to get good results that does suggest that as it comes out of the box it is lacking.


Marc
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Posted: 2007-04-25 12:34:52
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@dogman,
totally agree, of course
but it's a SE-forum - considering that, there are surprisingly many who agree with us (I find some nokia-forums a lot less tolerant, to be honest)
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Posted: 2007-04-25 12:43:22
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On 2007-04-25 12:34:52, Dogmann wrote:
@Boba

You are right 90% of the people here will say that but that doesn't make them right. Many here unfortunately are blinded by an SE badge and just believe they must be the best.

But just look on this forum for how many threads there are about low volume or hissing and some of this on top of the range Walkman phones. IMO Walkman is little more than an interface and and marketing that's it.

Recently i looked at both the W950 and W880 neither unfortunately impressed me enough to buy them. Although Nokia don't market the N93 or E61 as Music phones they both have more than enough volume @40-50% and enough power to run a set of Shure EC2 headphones and sorry if people don't like that but it happens to be the truth. They also have preset and user definable equaliser settings and are in a different league to Walkman phones. The only thing they don't have is the fancy Walkman branding but there is just no contest IMO.

They also don't need modding either as pointed out if you need to mod it to get good results that does suggest that as it comes out of the box it is lacking.


Marc

well, that's a queer and correct observation...
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Posted: 2007-04-25 13:04:00
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@aatuif.../
what the heck is "queer" about that??? (and I do know that "queer" means more than "gay"... still: explain; I don't get it!)
You tickle my pickle, young sir aatuif...
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[ This Message was edited by: maggflodd on 2007-04-25 12:13 ]
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Posted: 2007-04-25 13:10:50
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Unfortunately, there's something quite wrong with (at least some) W phones including the flagship models. After upgrading from my first ever mobile phone T100 to W850i, I expected crystal clear Walkman sound. Instead I got hissing at the end of every song and crackling between them. The crackling issue was solved after a firmware update but the hiss remains.

I gather that at least some W850 and W880 users have encountered this. Maybe it's just a faulty lot and obviously SE does not intend to do anything about it... This made me buy a pair of clip headphones just to escape the hiss which is audible in quiet environments. When there's some noise either indoors or outdoors the HPM 70 will do. Therefore my W series audio experience is a bit lacklustre. Otherwise, the phone is quite good, apart from the lack of autofocus

Cheers!
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Posted: 2007-04-25 16:05:41
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oops... I just though I had a deja vu - but actually realise this has all been
talked to de*th in the ipod v. walkman phone thread... I still experience nightmares about that (even dreamt I was called bad words... tssk)
so, I'll excuse myself now....
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Posted: 2007-04-25 16:22:14
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