 Mobile phones today have more multimedia futures than classic MP3 player, they have bigger memory (up to 1 Gb), and also have better multimedia capabilities with better and quality displays. In constant look on Internet we found one in our opinion best review of current MP3 players for Symbian Os phone.
The article is written by TankerX on his great blog which should be in any Symbian users web bookmarks.  If you've been following recent posts, you'll know that I've been looking for a simple but nice MP3 player for my Smartphone. I tried MP3 Gravity, UltraMP3 and MP3 Player.
MP3 Gravity just wouldn't play anything and the support e-mail address returned unknown and UltraMP3, while extremely configurable and full of options was just too complicated for what I wanted (I'm a simple soul), so I was left with MP3 Player.
The problem was that this was unstable and wouldn't work properly. Fortunately, the support e-mail address was real and I sent them an e-mail asking for help. I got a reply literally within the time it takes to post a short blog entry and after a bit of e-mail ping-pong, I found myself with a version that was stable enough to register, and that's precisely what I did. And here's why...
 I'm using version 3.20b of the software - it's the only version I found that works on the Nokia6260. If you download a version from any online stores, you may find that it's a lower versiona and may have to contact the support team at Viking Games (a support which I have to say is the best I have ever experienced).
What I was looking for, as I have said, was a simple MP3 player. My main use for this would be to listen to Audio Books and downloaded sermons. Because of this, a bookmark facility (like that found on the Microsoft Smartphone's Pocket Music) would have been nice but, failing that, a really good Fast Forward (or as my sister called it, when she was a small, a forward rewind). I also wanted something simple, clean and easy to look at. I didn't want a lot of text everywhere giving me information about all sorts of stuff that I don't care about (for exmaple, MP3 Player doesn't have a visualisation, but I don't care because I want to listen, not watch).
MP3 Player does all of the above with class and simplicity.
When it starts up, you see a blank player. Hit joystick-right and it gets busy loading a list of the songs on your Smartphone. You'd expect this to take ages, wouldn't you? Well, it doesn't. After a while, you have your list and that list is intuitively organised into the folders which you have used to store your songs. This is brilliant and something I've not seen on any other of the Symbian MP3 Players I tried.
 
What this means is that instead of getting a long flat list of the songs on your phone, the songs appear under the heading of the folder in which they are stored, so all the songs stored in the folder titled 'How To Dismantle And Atomic Bomb' appear there in the list!
 You plays your music and makes your choice, but in-song track-navigation isn't fantastic; if you want to go to the next song, you have to open the menu and click next. If you want to go back, you have to open the playlist. But on the bright side I just think of the number of times I've skipped to another track from the middle of a long one and had to try and find my place again. So it's not all bad.
To navigate within a track, you hold down the 'Pencil' key (big red arrows appear)and press joystick-left or joystick-right. The speed with which you can move through a track is great and there's no lag; playing recommences immediately (because these screenshots are achieved using the 'Pencil' key, the arrows appear on many of them).
The settings are pretty basic, but they're enough to customise your player to behave as you want. I have found that the Preamplification settings can cause problems, but that's about all.
You will read also that this software is skinnable. What I love about the skinning on this software is that it sorts out the object placement on the screen. Other players may allow you to configure everything from colour to position on the screen of on-screen controls, but I prefer what this software does. You give it a picture to use as a backdrop and it superimposes the standard controls over the top. As you can see from the screenshots, the results can be quite effective! The method it uses to load skins is exactly the same as when it loads tracks - you're given a list of folders which contain .JPG files and you pick which one you want to use. It takes a few seconds to process the image into a skin, but once it's done, that's it, and I love it!
  
On the whole, I am very impressed with the software and with the service I received from Viking Games. This software isn't perfect, but it's a million mileas ahead of the others in terms of what I want. If you want something with more options, then maybe you'll want to go elsewhere, but the playlist implementation on this alone makes it a winner as far as I'm concerned.
I recommend this for it's clarity, simplicity and intuitive user interface.
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