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What Makes a Cell Phone a Top Music Phone?

If you're wanting the best music phone, there are a number of features to consider:

Phone functions and service.
Like any cell phone, your new music phone has to operate with the cellular network you will be using. In addition, if you wish to use the phone as a camera, need it to provide GPS guided direction, or to do a great deal of text messaging then attention will also need to be given to those features.

Types of audio files supported
All music phones will support the most popular file type, MP3. However, you might also be interested in making use of AAC, WMA, WAV, AMR, MIDI, or other types of music files. The best music phone for you should supports the types of files you want to use.

Useful and easy to use controls.
Shoppers should consider whether or not the phone offers the type of controls they want. For instance can they adjust the tone, bass, and so forth to suit their preferences. Are volume, rewind, fast forward and other functions easy to adjust? How does the music phone allow you to organize and find the tunes you want; is it convenient and quick? The best music phones let you tweak your music to suit the sound you like and make it easy to enjoy exactly the tunes you want.

A good music phone will function like a full featured MP3 player. It can play video, offers an equalizer, may show artist, title, and so forth on the screen as your music plays, may have an airplane mode to allow you to listen without turning on your cellular service, and so forth.

The quality of the listening experience.
Shoppers should listen to the quality of the sound before buying. Are the speakers good and are headphones adequate? If all is well, but the headphones aren't up to par, find out if you can upgrade them.

Overall music features.
For instance, does the music phone also offer an FM radio? Does it make streaming over a wireless connection possible? Does it have enough memory to store all of the tunes you want on your phone? Phones with a few GB of memory are good but having a microSD slot to add more is nice as well.

Quick and easy downloading.
Can you make use of your favorite download sites with it and can you perform downloads quickly? Obviously, a USB 2.0 connection is preferable and shoppers should assure the cable comes included when buying the phone.

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