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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
I mean, regarding mp3 players, that doesn't surprise me much, that $40 Moto E 2020 looks like it'd make a fine mp3 player with the addition of 3rd party software like poweramp or foobar2000 or...
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Yeah, dedicated MP3 players are pretty a niche market these days whether it's low end devices like the SanDisk Clips and a myriad of no-name Chinese devices or very high end players like the FiiOs and Astell & Kerns.
Smartphones can do it all for most people, so why pay for extra devices? Still, there are those of us who prefer a dedicated device for music and audiobooks for various reasons. That's where prepaid/no-contract phones come in and there are quite a few out there coming in at less than $50 fully paid. If you want an unlocked version of the same phone, count on adding another $100 or so to the price tag.
My reason for getting a separate media player is because I don't use smartphones. I still use old-school flip phones because they're small enough to fit and survive in the front pocket of my blue jeans; smartphones can't.
While my Sansa Clips work quite well for audiobooks and music I own, they can't play Spotify and that's a must-have feature I need in a music player. Enter the inexpensive prepaid phones. By not activating them, they function exactly the same way a WiFi tablet does; only in a much smaller package. Though in recent years, they keep getting larger and larger as the smartphone market keeps pushing for ever larger displays; much to my chagrin.
It's been a week and a half since I received my new Moto E6 and I'm still very pleased with it. The only downside is its large size, something I don't like. I placed a 128GB mSD card in it and loaded it with audiobooks and lots of Spotify playlists. So it's definitely working out for my needs.
Hopefully, this phone will go on sale again for BF. If not, there'll be other comparable phones that will.
So stay tuned...