With the Nubia Music, ZTE presents an interesting mid-range smartphone that is clearly aimed at music lovers with its vinyl-like design, extremely powerful speakers, and two 3.5 mm headphone jacks.
  • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    421·
    9 months ago

    Can’t wait for people with these to talk on speakerphone in public (or just play their music at max volume)

    On the other hand I wonder if “600% higher” is just 8.5 dB louder. (700% total) - which isn’t nothing, but “In general, to measure loudness, a sound must be increased by 10 dB to be perceived as twice as loud.”

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, as someone who uses public transport having the noise nuisances get 600% louder really doesn’t sound too great.

      • Hyperreality@kbin.social
        11·
        9 months ago

        Sometimes I wear headphones/earbuds without the music on, just to drown at the noise.

        Get ones that isolate noise well.

        • Pantherina@feddit.deEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          Hahaha this, I have ANC headphones and I always have them on, rarely any music.

          In the past with my in-ear buds I would always listen to some random stuff just to get rid of that noise, which makes no sense and left me mentally exhausted

  • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
    311·
    9 months ago

    Those will… not sell. Elementary school kids have smart phones. This isn’t 2009 when the cool kids are sharing earbuds to listen to their Zune.

    • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      I’m gonna buy an aux cable and blast a feedback loop until the battery explodes. I’d like to see your zune do that!

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      This isn’t 2009 when the cool kids are sharing earbuds

      Even if they were they still wouldn’t sell, because they’re using earbuds LOL

  • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.orgEnglish
    235·
    9 months ago

    Here a truth no one wants to acknowledge: smart phones suck. Both iOS and Android are awful. Phones are unrepairable future e-waste. Being able to use your phone as a desktop has never happened beyond Samsung’s DeX for reasons I can’t comprehend, because there’s no good reason they couldn’t be. Smart phones are trash and have made the world a worse place.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      Being able to use your phone as a desktop has never happened beyond Samsung’s DeX for reasons I can’t comprehend

      Yeah I would love to have something like this. Especially considering Android is generally more secure than Windows and MacOS due to sandboxing.

  • BirdEnjoyer@kbin.social
    12·
    9 months ago

    I just want a phone designed to make spoken word more audible in noisy environments, so I don’t have to use some sketchy app when I’m trying to hear a poorly balanced podcast over the stove fan while cooking.

    This just sounds like q feature that I’ve literally never seen anyone ask for outside of that or movies, basically

    • Praxinoscope@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      9 months ago

      Try out Shokz bone conducting headphones. They are awesome, you can hear the world around you, and the app has a vocal booster mode that makes listening to podcasts much better. It works really well on my 1.5 hour bike commute in traffic with road noise, and I can still hear the cars passing by.

    • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      Try new moto phones. They have dolby presets and their podcast preset is quite good. I don’t know if all their phones support it, but most of the new ones have this.

    • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      It’s got it’s faults but I love the speakers on my Zenfone 10. Very loud with good bass, especially for a relatively compact phone.

      I’d love a phone with a dedicated DAC and decent shielding like the old LG V devices. Whilst there are dedicated DAPs with these features at this point I’d prefer an all in one device. Although the ZD10 has a headphone jack I can hear humming with no music/sound through them -_-

  • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    Meme phone for sure but the industry is so boring now that I’ve started to appreciate these occasional weird designs out of China.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    One headphone jack is enough. Just pair it with a powerful amp and dac like on the LG V-series.

  • Vegoon@feddit.deEnglish
    910·
    9 months ago

    Finally the phone for everyone who claims the fairphone is not sustainable anymore because they removed the headphone jack.