It’s a Creative Zen Stone that I got as a Christmas gift in 2008. I just found it in a drawer, and it’s still holding charge. The last thing I put on it was The Life And Times Of Scrooge by Tuomas Holopainen, in 2015 – I don’t know why, at that time I definitely had a smartphone.
It has a headphone jack, which immediately makes it better than every smartphone produced in the last several years, and it can easily drive my 80-ohm Beyerdynamic. The audio quality is as good as one can expect. The only drawback is that it only holds 1GB… my old CD rips had to be compressed to hell and back.
Let me reiterate that this has been sitting untouched for a decade and was immediately ready for action. No login, no annoying software updates, expired subscription, or remote bricking by the manufacturer. Eat my shorts, Spotify Car Thing.
P.s. A Lifetime Of Adventure is a banger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwSVOo5K_k
Is there a Chines phone that is as small as a Pixel 5 (or smaller?), with decent hardware/ram?
I don’t even need a great processor, just good enough. I don’t play games (other than things like Solitaire or Backgammon), but I multi-task like mad, so ram is more important than anything.
I’ve been looking at one of the Unihertz Jelly phones. I’m a bit concerned about the mediatek, but they’re well priced so it’ s not a bad gamble.
Not sure, I like the rugged phones so I couldnt recommend a smaller model offhand, though I know they exist.
I actually just switched from a Pixel 5 to the Jelly Max last week and I’ve been pretty happy with it so far. My Pixel 5 was starting to have problems and I hate that it’s considered a “small” phone now.
My only real complaints about the Jelly Max are that the touchscreen is less sensitive, the camera is not as good, and there’s no 3.5mm jack, but they’re far from dealbreakers IMO. I haven’t noticed that it’s any worse at multitasking and I’ve read you can get better performance out of the camera with 3rd party camera apps but haven’t gotten around to figuring that out yet. It is about as heavy and twice as thick as the Pixel 5, but I personally feel like the thickness makes it a little more ergonomic to hold one-handed.
Oh, cool, thanks for the insight.
Interesting that it’s thicker, does it have a bigger battery?
The battery is about the same size (~4000mAh), it’s just thicker because they had to cram it into a smaller area :)