MARSHALL’S FIRST FORAY into the smartphone world won’t have Apple and Samsung sweating their stake in the market. But the guitar-amp company’s first mobile device does come with a few unique features that could show up in future iterations of the iPhone and Galaxy lineup.
The new Marshall London is an Android Lollipop phone custom-fitted for music lovers, with a dedicated processor for high-resolution audio (including uncompressed FLAC files), a pair of headphone jacks built into it, some decent-looking Marshall Mode earbuds, a top-mounted button that quickly fires up the phone’s music UI, a five-band global equalizer, and a scroll wheel for adjusting volume with precision while it’s in your pocket. It also scratches a couple more-conventional smartphone itches, with a user-replaceable 2500mAh battery and a MicroSD storage slot.
While the phone hasn’t officially been announced in the U.S. just yet—there’s a page on Marshall’s Swedish site that lists all the phone’s features and specs—it will be in a few hours according to the site’s countdown clock. There’s no pricing information on the U.S. version of the site for now.
Hardware differentiation and specialization are growing trends in the smartphone universe—we have “luxury” phones from Vertu and Lamborghini, a smartphone with a large image sensor from Panasonic, and Samsung’s wrap-around Edge screen, for example—but any successful hook will likely show up in market-leading phones before long. Dual-headphone jacks and hi-res audio capabilities seem like features that may become mainstream soon.
The new Marshall London is an Android Lollipop phone custom-fitted for music lovers, with a dedicated processor for high-resolution audio (including uncompressed FLAC files), a pair of headphone jacks built into it, some decent-looking Marshall Mode earbuds, a top-mounted button that quickly fires up the phone’s music UI, a five-band global equalizer, and a scroll wheel for adjusting volume with precision while it’s in your pocket. It also scratches a couple more-conventional smartphone itches, with a user-replaceable 2500mAh battery and a MicroSD storage slot.
While the phone hasn’t officially been announced in the U.S. just yet—there’s a page on Marshall’s Swedish site that lists all the phone’s features and specs—it will be in a few hours according to the site’s countdown clock. There’s no pricing information on the U.S. version of the site for now.
Hardware differentiation and specialization are growing trends in the smartphone universe—we have “luxury” phones from Vertu and Lamborghini, a smartphone with a large image sensor from Panasonic, and Samsung’s wrap-around Edge screen, for example—but any successful hook will likely show up in market-leading phones before long. Dual-headphone jacks and hi-res audio capabilities seem like features that may become mainstream soon.
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