OK, here's one for Matt P or other 1337 phone geeks

I'm getting a motorola a830 on a 3 'plan' and was wondering what the video/mp3 capabilities of the phone are ? Like what bitrate can it handle and does it do VBR ? I can't find the specs anywhere so maybe someone who's got one can help.

I reckon it's a bargain. Its 2 for the price of 1 so get a mate together and basically $240 for the phone including $20 of video messages/month for 2 years + 32MB memory card, 2 mains chargers, 2 batteries, stereo headset and usb gear to hook it to the computer. Even for a mp3 player and SD card alone it'd be almost worthwhile, plus I'll use it as a notetaker for work and it'd pretty much a PDA with all the features (for the price)

PS: I have no affilliation with 3 I just think it's a pretty sweet deal.

This is from a 3G site:

I've successfully played these files in video player:
encoded with QuickTime Pro 6.3
- MPEG-4 AAC audio only, 128kbps
- 3GPP Mobile MPEG AAC audio only, 128kbps
- 3GPP 5.1 AAC audio only, 128kbps
- 3GPP 4.3 AAC audio only, 128kbps
encoded with Easy CD-DA Extractor Audio File Converter 5.1- MPEG-2 AAC, 128kbps
- MPEG-4 AAC, 128kbps

I've successfully played these files in audio player:
encoded with Easy CD-DA Extractor Audio File Converter 5.1
- MP3 192kbps
- MP3 128kbps
- MP3 average 128kbps
- MP3 variable quality-7
- MP3 variable quality-8
- MP3 variable quality-9

These file types failed to play in either audio player or video player:
encoded with Windows Media Player 9 Series
- All WMA (not recognised)

Cheers

Suffy

see my reply in the other forum u posted this

thanks fellas. I'll either get it tonight or thursday. woot, drunken video messages here I come