Marshall london telefon
Marshall has taken a new venture into the world of smart phones. The ‘Marshall London’ is designed for music listeners and people who want to share music on the go.
Marshall London hands-on: a smartphone for music fans
It features a dual-headphone output, so two people can listen at the same time. The company, famous for its amps, jumps into the smartphone industry, taking aim at audiophiles and music fans. For those about to rock, we salute you! Put your hands together for the Marshall London, the first smartphone from the legendary audio manufacturer. British company Marshall, founded in , is famous for its amps stacked behind some of the world's greatest rockers -- and as such, the company's first smartphone has a hard-rockin' heritage to live up to.
Today, the audio and sound company specializes in making speakers and headphones as well as amplifiers, and the London squarely emphasizes high-quality sound, rocking out with a number of features that promise to boost your listening experience. Music is so important the London boasts a dedicated quick access button to launch your music player of choice, called the M Button. The M button and the scroll wheel that controls the volume are clad in old-school brass set into the black body, harking back to the black-and-brass style of classic Marshall amps.
The body is a textured, rubberised case somewhere between an amp case and a tyre. Where other manufacturers pride themselves on how seamless they can make their phones, Marshall deliberately insets the screen slightly so there's a tiny ridge around the display. Whether it protects the screen from drops and scratches as Marhsall claims it does remains to be seen, but it adds to the overall old-school analogue feel of the design.
I found the analogue styling an absolute blast and a refreshingly individual change from most phone designs, but if you prefer a sleek and slim futuristic phone this probably isn't for you. That said, despite its chunky rubberised body, the London is surprisingly light. The London is equipped with two front-facing speakers and two 3. You can share your music with a friend, and when the second headphone is plugged in the onscreen volume control allows you to adjust the volume for each listener separately.
Alternatively, you can use the dual volume controls with the built-in DJ app to cue up your next track should you find yourself on the wheels of steel. That DJ app incidentally is one of the only additions Marshall has made to the London's Android firmware, which is the relatively recent 5. That lack of bloatware should mean that you won't be waiting too long for future Android updates. Software features include a global equalizer for customising your sound settings.
There are plenty of EQ presets too. The phone plays FLAC and other lossless files among the many audio formats it can handle.
Aside from the audio goodies, the device itself isn't particularly high-end. It has a 4. Camera features include an 8-megapixel rear shooter and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.
Marshall London review
There's 16GB of internal storage to store you music files, which you can expand with a microSD card. Up until now, the upper limit has been 64GB, but a firmware update is bumping the amount of lossless audio you can store up to GB. Managing the London is a 1. While this isn't the latest monster processor or a particularly beefy battery, Marshall reckons the London is designed to make the most of what it has. So when you're just listening to music with the phone in your pocket, the main processor stays asleep and the discrete sound chip takes over, drawing less juice from the battery.
In terms of battery life, Marshall claims 55 hours of listening to MP3s in your headphones or 30 hours on the speakers. Currently, the phone is available in Sweden and comes with the company's Mode earbuds. You can buy it, fittingly, in London; it's on sale in the achingly hip Boxpark retail unit in the UK's hipster capital Shoreditch. Sadly there are currently no plans for the phone to hit the road on a US tour, as it doesn't currently support the different 4G bands used in the States.
Look out for our full review soon. Oh, and here's the encore: It says "Long live rock'nroll" on the battery. How rawk is that?! For more hard-rockin' gadgets from technology trade show IFA, check out cnet. Thank you and goodnight! Tech Mobile. M is for music with Marshall's first smartphone, the London. Lynn La covers mobile reviews and news. See full bio. A member of the Film Critic's Circle, he's covered technology and culture from London's tech scene to Europe's refugee camps to the Sundance film festival.
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