MP3 Playback on Kaiser

[meddleuk]

Hi,

I was hoping for a little advice from someone who has the Vario III. I am on T-mobile in the Uk and I am currently thinking of getting shut of my N95 and getting one of these. I primarily want a smartphone that has good music playback facilites as well as a good web browsing phone. The N95 can play Mp3's through headphones but the quality is noticebally not as good as on my Ipod.

Is the Vario III a good music player , it seems to have a high spec in all other areas. Also do you use the built in MP3 player or is there a better third party app that can play them. What's the battery life like when just playing back music and what is currently the largest memory card it takes.

Lastly, am I right in assuming the Vario III is the same as the Kaiser? Is it just rebranding?
Thanks for any help!

[NinjaDonkey]

The Kaiser/TyTn II/Vario III/whatever else they want to call it has pretty decent audio out.

I personally use a stereo bluetooth headset for listening to music which is damn near perfect.

The hands free kit that comes with it has... well... what you expect from a hands free kit - fairly bad audio reproduction.

I haven't tried many of the audio adapters found in this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=332164 thread but I'm thinking of buying one of them for when I connect it up to an external source.

Hope this helps..

[evilc]

I find the audio on the Kaiser to be excellent - a definate improvement over my old Blue Angel.

For example, when I have TomTom going as well as music, the voice directions mix in perfectly with the music - no crackles, no distortion etc. In fact, at times we miss the directions cause they mix in so well we think it is part of the song :P

I use Pocket Player (http://www.conduits.com/products/player/) as it plays WMA and has a much better interface than windows media player - all the functions can be controlled by keys, plus you do not need to make playlists, it will auto scan the tags and build a database from that.