[jjbrighton]

Just bought a 2720 - sorted bluetooth connection etc, ok there - but having problem with music files capacity - one or two tracks and phone is saying saying no more capacity. Can anyone tell me what format I should be transferring music in ? And also an idea of amount of space available for music, in mb's or tracks, roughly. Any help be greatly appreciated - it's driving me mad !

Message Edited by jjbrighton on 06-Jan-2010 12:58 PM

[psychomania]

The 2720 isn't the best choice of phone to use as a music player as it doesn't have a memory card slot.  With it being a basic model it has very little internal storage memory so you'll be lucky if you get more than a couple of tracks when saved at a low(ish) bit rate like 128kbps.  Even then you will have no space left for anything else as it's memory space is shared for all functions.  

You can store more tracks by using a lower bit rate so AAC is probably the better format to use as you get better results at lower bit rates than mp3.  Even then you are only looking at around 5 to 10 tracks at the most and the quality won't be that good either.

Your best option now is to either return it, research a more suitable phone for your needs or just buy a separate music player. 

[patruns]

psychomania, the phone comes with 10GB of memory. Surely there is a lot left for some music. It even lets you store pictures and video. I think there is more to it than this.

Note, this is a double post. There is another floating around somewhere.................

Yeah, here it is........  /discussions/board/message?board.id=phones&message.id=67779#M67779

Message Edited by patruns on 06-Jan-2010 07:07 PM

[psychomania]

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patruns wrote:

psychomania, the phone comes with 10GB of memory. Surely there is a lot left for some music. It even lets you store pictures and video. I think there is more to it than this.

Note, this is a double post. There is another floating around somewhere.................

Yeah, here it is........  /discussions/board/message?board.id=phones&message.id=67779#M67779

Message Edited by patruns on 06-Jan-2010 07:07 PM

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10GB?  That is totally incorrect, please read the specifications!  The phone has between 6 to 9 MB available for user storage (dependant on variant).  An average 3 minute long mp3 at 128kbps is around 3mb so only two or three could be stored.  If the user encoded using AAC at a low bit rate up to 10 files could be stored but the quality would suffer.

 

So obviously with only that small amount of memory not a lot is left for music or anything else! 

 

You are actually contradicting your own answer which you made on the other thread, after I had already given this correct answer.  

 

Official specification for you:

http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/2720_fold/ 

[jjbrighton]

Thanx for all comments - 10GB I wish !! - obviously made a dud decision on this phone - when it boasts a mp3 player, I reckoned there be space to put some, if not loads of trax on it.

Soz for double post - posted late last night & thought it had disappeared down the list.

[patruns]

I meant 10MB. My error.

I'm looking at a long .mp3 song on my phone now and it is 4703kb. Hmmm.. that's almst 4.6mb. Nokia advertises this as a camera to take pictures and video with as well as receive e-mail with attachments and Bluetooth file transfer. Why would they do that with such little available memory?

http://www.nokiausa.com/find-products/phones/nokia-2720/specifications

[psychomania]

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patruns wrote:

I meant 10MB. My error.

I'm looking at a long .mp3 song on my phone now and it is 4703kb. Hmmm.. that's almst 4.6mb. Nokia advertises this as a camera to take pictures and video with as well as receive e-mail with attachments and Bluetooth file transfer. Why would they do that with such little available memory?

http://www.nokiausa.com/find-products/phones/nokia-2720/specifications

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Because with it's low res camera it has plenty of space for pictures and video that it has taken. It could probably hold well over 50 pictures before you have to bluetooth them to a computer (or upload to a website) to free up the memory. Obviously email attachments can greatly vary in size but it's a casual email phone, not for serious email users.  

 

Notice they don't advertise it as an mp3 player which is in question here.  The reason it can playback mp3's is mainly for ringtones which you could store many of (if sized and encoded suitably).

 

If you look at the specs of many of nokia's budget phones you will see they have very little user memory.  Many recent phones only have 32mb in total, most of which is reserved for the OS and general running. This helps to keep the phones cheap and to fit in the right market sector.  Users that require more space will have to spend a bit more on a more advanced model.

 

It's all a case of choosing the right phone for a persons needs, that is why so many different phones exist. 

Message Edited by psychomania on 06-Jan-2010 09:55 PM

[patruns]

Well laid out answer!