Got An N81? Part 1 – Get BOSE
The N81 8GB special edition with BOSE quiet comfort 3 pack landed 2 days ago. First thing I noticed was how huge the carton box was compared to the N95 8gb’s box.
The second thing? Well the packaging is amazing, and for the first time probably, the word special in special edition gets its full fledge. I was thinking about taking some snaps, but 2 guys have already outdone any pictures I can dream of shooting: Vaibhav Sharma from The Symbian Blog has an unboxing video and an 81 pictures flickr set (from which this photo was taken), also Abul from Symbian In Motion has put up some unboxing pictures and a picture special post.
The third thing I noticed? Well, it’s more than one thing. I was trying to find the perfect catch phrase for the music experience between the N81 8GB and the Bose QC3 headphones, and well I couldn’t choose. Too many things were coming to my head. So feel free to pick.
1 – This is how MUSIC was always supposed to be. “Now That’s what I call Music” – the final episode.
2 – If this is heaven, then please somebody kill me tonight! It’s a 1/2 chance I’m going there.
3 – I was never a fan of bass, turns out I never listened to it the way I should have. Turn the volume to 80% and face your fears, bass makes the headphone bump against your ears!
4 – I thought opera music was for dull old people, until I heard Andrea Bocelli on the Bose.
5 – Josh Groban, Celine Dion, Gregory Lemarchal, Il Divo, Lara Fabian, then turn off the light, and there you go, on the wings of an angel.
6 – It’s like a huge stereo with surround system and amplifiers, in my head. Awww, love that feeling.
7 – HIM almost sounded angelic :s and even Lindsay Lohan and Haifa Wehbe (for our arab readers) sound great!
8 – This is what I am getting on my first paycheck! Oh and since that won’t happen for a couple of years, and if you are still wondering what to get me next christmas, now you have your answer.
9 – You never heard Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Dani California or My Chemical Romance’s Helena until you heard it like this!
10 – The iPod with Bose sounded great, but nothing compared to the N81, kudos Nokia! Oh and my iPod is searching for a string to hang itself. I found my perfect music player.
11 – I love that my father was next to me, shouting asking me whether he should get me a banana, and I only noticed him when he pinched me.
12 – David Hallyday singing Higher, do you think he ever got higher on a pair of headphones?
13 – I thought 128kbs was such a low bitrate. Seems I was wrong, I wasn’t listening to it the right way.
14 – A friend of mine managed to drool on IM when I was describing the music sound to him.
15 – I hope I can send them back to WOMWorld, my friend keeps taking them away! Well WOM, I got my eyes on her, so don’t worry ;)
Stef, the N81 8GB, the Bose QC3 and the intern white blouse :)
In short, I thought Vaibhav was exaggerating when he said he listened to more music in a week than he usually did in a month! I, myself, have reached my monthly limit within 2 days. I am joining BAA (Bose’oholic Anonymous Association). One advice for anyone owning an N81 and reading this, do yourself a favor, get the Bose Quiet Comfort 3 headphones. I know it’s almost 350$, but you won’t believe how the music experience on the device will dramatically change.
I Can’t believe Haifa made it to symbian-guru.com!!
Try Julia Boutrous on these heavenly headsets and tell me how does she sound like?!
wow very nice!
Isn’t it just the BOSE headphones that are great, and not necessarily the phone’s music playback hardware?
Actually, Zyborg, the N81 was designed specifically for music playback, and features a dedicated sound processing chip, for superior quality. I tested it against the N95-3 and N82 and you can tell a sizable difference in music through the 3.5mm audio jack. So it’s half-and-half.
Yup, Zyborg, Ricky is right. The music quality is far superior on the N81 (tested against the N95 8gb, both of them with BOSE). It is even noticeably better than the iPod (point 10 in my euphoric post). So yes, the N81 is great, the BOSE are great but both together are perfect!
It looks like those headphones have a wire though.
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Adam, they are not wireless, they have a wire with 3.5mm plug. They are noise-canceling and extremely high-quality, that’s why they cost the extra money. Usually when I used to turn the volume to 100% on any headphone, I would hear some white noise in the background and the quality would drop dramatically. Not on the bose. Still, I would’ve loved it if they were wireless ;)
Yep, the N81 sounds supremely louder and crisper than any other device, it’s not just the Bose headphones.
I wish for some A2DP enabled ones, that would be awesome!
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