Thumbs up
- Hardware feels pleasant in the hand
- UI is easy to use (good legibility/readability)
- Incoming alert sounds are nice
- Pairing and using bluetooth peripherals
- Music through the speakers sounds fine – no distortion even at max volume. Flac hi-res (24/192) played fine. (Bravo.)
Issues/What could be improved
5. Call audio is on the low side. (What’s interesting is that music is loud enough.)
7. The device doesn’t seem to distinguish bluetooth speakers from headphones. So, if you increase the volume > 70%, you receive the EU-mandated volume warning.
8. No timer – this is really a must-have
9. Would be quite nice to be able to switch between open apps. Say I’m listening to music and I want to switch apps, at present, I tap home>apps>chosen app. (A nice-to-have.)
10. Music playlists are also a must-have.
So far, the impression is that I could certainly get used to this. Hooray.
More to come later.
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Hi there, are you sure the loudspeaker on the phone you say is good quality? Mine is having extreme distortions when playing any music and all notification sounds except one which is “drum” are very distorted and ringing in the ears.
Also i checked in the developer options, mine only has 16/41 audio quality option available, could be different hardware?
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You could use the meditation timer as a timer!
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I totally agree to point 9. switching between apps is necessary! I would not mind something like the regular open apps view that you have on android usually.
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To switch to another app, it might be easier to tap on the back button twice (when listening to music). Ohh and swiping left also works from the home screen, to access the apps, you don’t have to tap the apps button.
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I can confirm some of the tracks I transferred were 24/192. I suppose it could have been downsampling it and playing it.
The speaker won’t win any awards and I certainly don’t think you’d be able to notice any difference above 320kbps MP3 on these speakers. I’m just glad I don’t have to re-transcode.
As for your distortions, I generally listen to classical and jazz and I only tested a few tracks, none of which had particularly low frequencies.
Where is this developer mode? How can one enable it?
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Oh, yes. Thank you. I’ll get used to it over time, I expect.
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I suppose if I wanted to set a time at fixed durations of: 5, 10, 15, 30, or 45 minutes, that’s possible, but I’d like to set a custom duration. (That pasta has to be al dente.)
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You can play a bit more with the “preparation time” adding 1-2 minutes. So only buy pasta which needs to boil for 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 or maybe 15 minutes 
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tap 7 times on build version
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Ah, high tones is the only thing this speaker is capable of so in your case it could be good, i got asperger and high notes hurt me too much… i mostly listen to lofi soundtracks from games or some old classic metal/rock where it is kind of in the middle instead of being mostly high tones.
And to open developer option same as it always was in every android phone, tap 7 times on compilation version, settings → about → compilation version tap 7 times.
then settings → system → developer options.
Here you can scroll and check some stuff.
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