The Moondrop phone has a CRAZY music streaming hack!  

They already removed it 😢

that was completely different than this , MIUI use to allow the users to lock their phone screen while playing any video in video players or music players applications (and It got removed in MIUI 14 and Hyper os update BTW), they never had a feature which allowed to run them background do some research

No, its everywhere 😊

Honestly all I need is an dap like experience on android with an ability to drag and drop hundreds of gigs of lossless files. So far have not found a decent solution.

Honestly, I think the way better solution would be to use the SD card in there to listen to flac files locally. It's nice to have the streaming options for convenience, but it's Android. It is true that Amazon music and Apple support lossless, tidal, qobuz, but they actually have very limited catalogs that support it. I forget what percentage of the catalog is actually supported in lossless. I mean even still though it's going to sound fine with wired iems and Bluetooth just like any other phone. But I imagine the kind of people that are interested in the phone like this probably store a lot of their music locally or would prefer to anyways.

I mean if you do a blind test, most people cannot tell the difference between lossless and lossy. Maybe you can, I'm not saying nobody can. But it's hard. Of course nothing's ever that simple when it comes to quality audio. It's all about the sum of your parts. But if we're going to be that purist about streaming something at a high bit rate, then why not just rely on local files?

@@michaelcorcoran8768 its a question of wanting a player like experience with the files I already have. And with a set of very good iems and decent amplifications, I could definitely tell the difference between lossless and compressed files. All I am saying is that I don’t want streaming with limited catalogs and subscriptions. I want my music that I already own to be played through some decent free player on android. A lot of the daps are already on android, is it not feasible to expect a decent player to exist as a standalone app.

I really dig what moondrop did here in terms of aesthetics, it has an Evangelion vibe to it, but it makes much more sense to get a good batteryless amp/dac like moonriver (iems) or Fiio Ka17 (more power for hungry headphones) and just go with whichever phone you like. Once phone battery dies, boom, get a new one, swap preferred size microSD card and you are good to go. You can also use this dacs with your notebook through USB-C, which is nice. I personally like to pick well supported Lineage OS devices which are also easily serviceable (no need to remove screen to change battery). A good example of this is the Xiaomi MI 9T, that I know of. Nothing beats Ipod Classic's user interface, sadly it's not the best source out there but it gets the job done for IEMs, at least the ones I tried. Of course those IEMs sounded better on my Drop O2 desktop amp/dac.

My full review will be out soon. It's a unique but situational phone

@@Sypnotix ya, that's how I feel. I think I might be in the situation to love it. I don't care about games or making videos. I use my phone for music and podcasts at work and I want the best sound I can get. I just worry about it having curved glass and such but for the price I might just try. I look forward to the review.

Just download a launcher from the app store

Nova launcher, Microsoft launcher etc .. although another channel someone said gestures weren't working on third party launchers. Least not reliably

I'll do my best to drop the runtime to 11 minutes and 50 seconds for the next one.