Apple is clearly pitching the iPhone as “Your New Primary Music Device”, with the idea being that you can junk your iPod and just use the iPhone for music and calls alike. Trouble is, there’s a few issues preventing me from doing that. For starters, at 8GB, the capacity is a bit on the small side if you’ve got a sizeable digital collection - 16GB would have hit the spot better, although that’s down to limitations of flash memory.
More annoying is the headphone jack, which is recessed, and thus doesn’t fit a lot of third-party headphones, including my two Sennheiser pairs. As a result, you’re left either stuck with the white earbuds that come with the iPhone, or you have to spend £8 or so on a special adapter from the Apple Store. Swizz, to say the least.
However, as far as I can make out, the sound quality is good, with a range of EQ settings available through the main Settings menu on the iPhone. Getting music onto the device could be easier though, since on iTunes you can’t just drag and drop songs across as you would with an iPod: you have to set up a playlist to be synced, and drag them into that. I’m not sure why.
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