# Which cellphone is the best MP3 player?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 25, 2006, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-is-the-best-mp3-player/358153 "2006-05-25T12:08:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-is-the-best-mp3-player/358153/1 "2006-05-25T12:08:26Z")

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My phone is coming up for replacement, and having resisted the urge to buy a separate MP3 player I now want to get a phone that doubles up as a good portable music player. I know lots of phones can play MP3s these days, but the feature often seems to be something of an afterthougt - you have to burrow down into an application menu or a file folder in order to play the MP3s. I want the music-playing features to be right there, easy to access from the top-level menu or even from dedicated music buttons, volume knobs etc. Ability to play WMAs or iTunes files would be nice, although I imagine the latter is only possible on the one Motorola model.

So, any recommendations, fellow Dopers?

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**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-is-the-best-mp3-player/358153/2 "2006-05-25T13:53:07Z")

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> [@Usram](#):
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> My phone is coming up for replacement, and having resisted the urge to buy a separate MP3 player I now want to get a phone that doubles up as a good portable music player. I know lots of phones can play MP3s these days, but the feature often seems to be something of an afterthougt - you have to burrow down into an application menu or a file folder in order to play the MP3s. I want the music-playing features to be right there, easy to access from the top-level menu or even from dedicated music buttons, volume knobs etc. Ability to play WMAs or iTunes files would be nice, although I imagine the latter is only possible on the one Motorola model.
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> So, any recommendations, fellow Dopers?

I’ll recommend the model I have, the [Nokia 3300](http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/3300). It has a button on the top for direct access to the mp3 player and a removable SD card for storage. I’d suggest, though, that you get an adapter for it so you can use your own headphones with it, instead of the pop-port earbuds it comes with (although those do double as a hands-free headset).

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**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-is-the-best-mp3-player/358153/3 "2006-05-25T13:55:58Z")

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However, the one available in your neck of the woods would look more like [this](http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,,18679,00.html).