Get 100 Tracks FREE from Nokia Music Store India

The Nokia Music Store India is giving away a 100 Free Music tracks as a Diwali bonus :D So all you registered users click here to download your 100 tracks for no price at all!

You can choose from Bollywood, Devotional, South and other categories in the store to download the tracks.

So click here and download your songs for free!

Happy Diwali everyone!

Review: Audials Mobile – Free Music!

All music lovers out there would really love to download Free Music directly to their S60 Devices so that they can enjoy music wherever they go and get whatever they want on the go!

Yes all this seemed to be impossible but now with Audials Mobile this is possible in the simplest way ever!  Yes ‘Audials Mobile’ is an awesome application that allow you to do just that!

Audials Mobile allows you to download MP3 quality music right to your mobile phone from the Internet via various Social Radio stations without the talks of those RJ’s!!! so its pure music and that to with a good quality straight to your mobile device!

• Download Audials Mobile app.
  Just go to the Audials Mobile Site from your PC or mobile phone and download it. the link http://audials.com/en/audials_mobile/
  OR just use the ‘Barcode reader’ on your S60 device to get the download link directly to your mobile phone from the Audials Mobile site

Once you have installed the app and bought the full version from the Audials Mobile site register it to get going and to start enjoying all the features!

• Search for music:

You can create a search for your music by searching via artist (Select Search) or via Genre (Select genre)

I created a search for the aritst “Kanye West” and as you can see the results show up. Select the artist from the list and then you get the list of all the songs of the selected artist:

To search via Genre select the genre option and you get a big list of all the available options:    

then select the sub-genre (if any) I selected Hip-Hop and got this:

you then get all the artists under the selected genre:

the search is real fast and ends up with a number of selections ina few seconds! then select the artist and the song you want to download!

• Download Music

Once you got the song you want to download simply click options and then select “Record” 

the download starts and you can easily see the downloaded songs in the ‘My Songs’ category. Once the downloads are done you can listen to them and enjoy!

I downloaded three songs before writing this post and the feeling was good! mainly because the search is very fast and powerful, getting results in a few seconds, and the downloads are fast as well! The quality of the sound being awesome!

 

I used WLAN to get all this done and of course Audials Mobile !! a Must have application for all you music lovers out there!!

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Today I got a chance to play with my friend's Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Well I must say its a good looking phone with a LARGE screen that catches your eye!

I have played with a very few touchscreen phones and thus it wasn't so easy for me to navigate on the phone but I guess it was fine, after I learned the fact that I have to tap (touch) the phone a bit harder :P
The home screen looks great, the phone is very quick with no lags and transitions are good. The camera seemed to be fine and took good photos (SORRY I Couldn't get the pics here) only was a little grainy in the dark. Music was good as usual no doubt about that. The phone feels really good in the hand thanks to the design of the phone. Over all I would say the Nokia 5800 XM is a good package and would have been better if it had a better camera. Its price is quite reasonable too.

Mobbler 3.0 - The Last.fm scrobbler for S60

One of the favorite applications on my Nokia N95 8GB device, is 'Mobbler'. Well people using Last.fm (the social music website) needing a Track scrobbler and an Last.FM Internet Radio player on their S60 Powered Nokia devices then this is the Application you wanted. Well most of you guys out there are using this application from quite a while now and even Mobbler 3.0 has been out for more than a month or two but then I felt I needed to post about this great application.

Its a really cool application allows you to tag tracks you "love" and ban songs you "hate" from the Radio of Last.FM. The other option allows you buy the current playing track from Amazon.com , Now thats a really cool mobile application for all you music lovers out there.

The latest version of Mobbler (version 0.3.0) is made to look really sleek and it also automatically checks for updates for you to download.

You can download this application from my MOSH over here.

Music: N91 vs N81 vs N95 8GB

Well today I decided to do a music test among Nokia's best Music Nseries Devices. I got my friend's N81 and N91, as they are one of the Best music Nseries Devices.

Nokia N91: As we all know this device was Nokia's first official Music Nseries device that came in two versions namely the N91 and N91 8GB. The N91 comes with a 4GB hard disk.

This was the first nseries device to come with a 3.5 mm. slot for headphones.

It has volume keys on the side and the music keys(play/pause, stop, backwards,forwards) on top of the 'actualy keypad.

I've used standard Nokia headsets that is the 'AD-54' that I got with my N95 8GB. The sound quality on the N91 is very impressive. It can give a good fight to many of the music players in the market. The sound was extremely clear and the volume was really good.Also speaker sound quality was good enough. Music on this phone is a really good experience plus we it has wi-fi. But there are many drawbacks of this device. First of all is the device design. The phone is really too BIG and heavy for pockets and to carry around. Secondly is the SLOW user interface. The device is way too slow to use and when it comes to the 'start-up' of the 'music player' it just takes a serious amount of time to load the music on the device.

But I must say that being a quite 'old' device, its music and sound qualities are just too good!

Nokia N81 : Most people say this device is a successor to the N91 in terms of music quality. Well yes this can be called the successor to the N91 and more exciting that this phones is an all together better and 'SMALLER' package compared to the N91. 

This device also has the same Music keys like on the N91. Its a much more smaller and lighter phone compared to N91. User -interface is obviously fast and smooth and just flows nicely!

But the main problem was that the music sound quality on the N91 was slightly better than the N81 ! shocking!  though the volume was almost the same on both the devices, somehow the sound quality was better on the N91. In an earlier post (you can read it here) I had tried out the music on the N81 and I found that it was quite good and even beat the N95 8GB for music qualities on headsets, but today I was shocked to find out that it wasn't as good as the N91. Speaker sounds are almost same as the N91. But I must say that the N81 is a very good package. A neat and small device with N-gage and wi-fi connectivity. Also the N81 comes in the 8GB version that is the N81 8GB, so you can have more space for music.

Nokia N95 8GB : The N95 8GB maybe an 'all in one' device but the sound quality and volume isn't that good when compared to the N91 and N81. This is surprising, I mean why doesn't Nokia make thier similar devices have same sound quality etc. ? the music keys are placed at the top and the slide needs to be slided downwards to see them (we all know this)

But its not that disappointing also, I mean its not hat bad its good enough! The speaker volume on the N95 8GB is the highest among all 3 phones. We all know when all the technical speciafications are compared the N95 8GB stands on top of all the 3. But it qould be really nice to have N91 sound capabilities on the N95 8GB.

So as we see even though being for quite a long time in the market the N91 has a better sound quality among nearly all nseries devices I guess (cause i haven't heard music on N82, if you have please let me know!) Please let me know about your Music experience!

It would be really nice to have better sound quality integrated onto latest Nseries devices like the N96, N85 and N79 etc. Music on Nseries has improved a lot, and I hope it improves even more further in the future. With Music store and Internet radio and other stuff Music on Nokia is a really good experience!

P.S. :The photo is taken by a Nokia 6300 (sorry for the bad quality I didn't have a better devices to take it at that moment)

N81 sound quality damn good !

I got a chance to play with my friend's N81 in college. i checked out the device and its display remined me of my N76's smaller display compared to my N95 8GB. the N-Gage experience was good, a decent camera and picture quality.

BUT what surprised me was the sound quality and volume on the Nokia AD-54 headset (the ones got with my N95 8GB). It was BETTER than the N95. Well the speaker quality and volume on the N95 was way better compared to the headsets quality. it was really surprising because I used the same headsets on both the devices. Anyways it doesnt matter much because the N95 8Gb is far more better than the N81 !

Sony Ericsson W902, a competitor to the Nokia N95 8GB ?

Well last night I was browsing the internet for new phone releases and related stuf, and I found this amazing device! yes the Sony Ericsson W902 is a very good competitor to the Nokia N95 8GB for its technical specifications. This walkman phone comes with a 8GB memory card and also has a 5 megapixel camera.










Well you can check the product video HERE


the phone technical specifications are as follows:

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Screen- 240x320 pixel- 262.144 color TFT
Memory- Phone memory 25MB*- Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support
* Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration.
Networks- GSM 850- GSM 900- GSM 1800- GSM 1900- EDGE- UMTS 2100- HSDPA
Available colours- Volcanic Black - Wine Red - Earth Green
Possible limited market availability.
Sizes- 49.0 x 110.0 x 11.7 mm- 1.9 x 4.3 x 0.5 inches
Weight- 99.8 gr- 3.5 oz
Please note that local variations may apply.

well this is possibly the first time that sony ericsson has 'integrated' the 'walkman' and 'cybershot' qualities into one device! the phone is said to be released later this year. Sony have come up with the slogan 'I REBORN MUSIC'.. well that is certainly true. Previews say that the phone has the 'BEST' sound quality on earphones BUT the major set-back is that you have to use the tradtionaly pop-port connector for your headset instead of a 3.5mm pin headset.

Also the phone comes with a 8GB memory card so you can store more music and media on it.

Well I consider it a worthy competitor to the Nokia N95 8GB on the grounds of technical specifications. but the real phone has yet to be reviewed so we cannot say as of now as to which phone is better. Yes the N95 8GB comes with GPS and other cool features, but the W902 is a really good device for Sony Ericsson lovers out there ! ;)



So you decide!

FM Radio, the forgotten one...

Well if I ask people whether they use the FM radio (Visual Radio) on their Nokia Devices that have a Music Player, the people who say a 'YES' will be negligible compared to the people using the Music Player. Well I strongly agree that with the Music player we have the total choice of songs in our hands and also can play whatever,whenever you want it. But this "FM radio" thing struck my head last night when I was doing some work with the Music player working on my Nokia N95 8GB (on heatsets of course, that too at a 'moderate' volume! ;) ) , I kinda got 'bored' ya really 'bored' of the Music Player, so I decided to use the 'Radio' !
And I 'enjoyed' the experience! Seriously ! the random tracks playing in my ears were a real breath of fresh air! The FM Radio Stations in India atleast have good tracks playing!

The following screenshots are taken from my Nokia N95 8GB. I tried the 'Visual radio' thing but it had some problems but I do remember my previous experience of visual radio on Nokia N76 sometime ago. Its nice (at least I liked it).

Lately we have all seen the Nokia N78 come built with the 'FM Transmitter' so Nokia has been paying attention to Radio, etc. but have you used your FM Radio lately ? or just go on with the Music Player ? :)

Would love to have your views and comments !